Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most
efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques …

The increasing creation of 3D cultural heritage models has resulted in a need for the
establishment of centralized digital archives. We advocate open repositories of scientifically …

This article is framed into the theoretical and methodological background of virtual
archaeology. The advantages of virtual archaeology and its weak points have long been …

Digitalisation of research data and massive efforts to make it findable, accessible,
interoperable, and reusable has revealed that in addition to an eventual lack of description …

As demonstrated in several case studies 3D digital acquisition techniques may greatly help
in documenting an archeological site and the related findings. Despite such information …

As new digital technologies now pervade the discipline of archaeology, the practice of
creating digital 3D representations of artifacts has become widespread. The rapid growth …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in 3D acquisition techniques in the field of
cultural heritage, yet, at the same time, only a small percentage of case studies have been …

While 3-dimensional visualisation methods are now employed in a wide range of humanities
contexts to assist in the research, communication and preservation of cultural heritage, it is …

Over the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in the fusion of the humanities
and the hard sciences. The continuous experimentation and contamination between these …

Building virtual models of archaeological sites has been seen as a legitimate mode of
representing the past, yet these models are too often the end product of a process in which …