Nowadays, with the spread of the BIM technology in the Cultural Heritage field, it is important to find, case by case, a method that permits to manage the archeological and architectural artifacts considering their personal needs. In this... more
Nowadays, with the spread of the BIM technology in the Cultural Heritage field, it is important to find, case by case, a method that permits to manage the archeological and architectural artifacts considering their personal needs. In this case, the project focuses on a portion of the roofs of the Milan Cathedral, chosen for the complexity and richness in shapes of the components, which leads to difficult survey operations. The target was to experience complex methods of multi-sensor and multi-scale data acquisition and to build an infographic three-dimensional reality-based model in order to help and manage the conservation activities of the building. The complexity of the Cathedral’s late gothic style represents a hard challenge for the application of the innovative surveying methods and for modelling with a BIM-oriented software. For this reason, the experiment was made with two different modelling methods (one is object-oriented modelling BIM and the other is based on the use of ...
The aim of this paper is to offer a preview of the pilot project at the "Paolo Orsi" Regional Archaeological Museum of Syracuse (Italy). Thanks to a free partnership with Google Business Photos/Street View Indoor, we managed to... more
The aim of this paper is to offer a preview of the pilot project at the "Paolo Orsi" Regional Archaeological Museum of Syracuse (Italy). Thanks to a free partnership with Google Business Photos/Street View Indoor, we managed to map the entire museum, the only archaeological museum in South Italy that can be visited online on a 360° tour on a Google platform, with a dozen archaeological finds which can be clicked as POIs from the museum windows and explored, taking 360° virtual tours, provided with descriptive sheets. The aim of the project is is to begin to bridge the gap of Sicilian Cultural Heritage's visibility on the web.
L’archeologo del XXI secolo non vive più di solo studio e scavo. Oggi la moderna ricerca impone di affiancare al lavoro in cantiere e ai libri in biblioteca modi sempre nuovi di indagare, comunicare e gestire l’antico. Bastano un po’ di... more
L’archeologo del XXI secolo non vive più di solo studio e scavo. Oggi la moderna ricerca impone di affiancare al lavoro in cantiere e ai libri in biblioteca modi sempre nuovi di indagare, comunicare e gestire l’antico. Bastano un po’ di fantasia, versatilità e intraprendenza per dare vita, da archeologo, alle attività più disparate. Come hanno fatto i 34 professionisti che si raccontano in Archeostorie: c’è chi cura un museo e chi gestisce un’area archeologica, chi narra il passato ai bambini e chi lo “fa vedere” ai ciechi, chi usa nel racconto le tecnologie e i linguaggi più diversi e persino i videogame; c’è poi chi ricostruisce l’antico in 3D e chi lo sperimenta dal vivo, chi organizza i dati di scavo e chi li rende disponibili per tutti; c’è chi scrive sui giornali e chi parla di archeologia alla radio o in tivù, chi realizza documentari e chi racconta l’archeologia sui social network; c’è ancora chi punta sul marketing e chi sul crowdfunding, chi fa dell’archeologia un’esperienza per tutti e chi difende le bellezze da furti e scempi. C’è anche chi studia e scava, e nel libro descrive la vita vera di studio e scavo al di là dei miti e dei sogni.
Il risultato è un manuale non convenzionale che offre spunti originali e concreti agli archeologi del futuro in cerca di reali possibilità di occupazione. Una sorta di bottega artigiana dove apprendere i segreti del mestiere, o meglio dei mestieri, che un’archeologia nuova, pragmatica e ancorata nel presente può ispirare.
In questo contributo sono descritti i principali aspetti di un articolato progetto di ricerca portato avanti dai laboratori CAILab e V-lab della Seconda Facolta di Ingegneria dell’Universita di Bologna. Il progetto, tuttora in fase di... more
In questo contributo sono descritti i principali aspetti di un articolato progetto di ricerca portato avanti dai laboratori CAILab e V-lab della Seconda Facolta di Ingegneria dell’Universita di Bologna. Il progetto, tuttora in fase di sviluppo, e basato sul rilievo tridimensionale ad alta precisione, mediante diverse tecnologie a scansione laser, di una scultura di Antonio Canova, l’Ebe conservata a Forli. Nella prima parte dell’articolo ci occuperemo della fase di rilievo, mentre nella seconda degli sviluppi applicativi. Canova’s Ebe: digital model and application developments - 1st part In this paper the main aspects of a complex research project, performed by the CAILab and V-lab laboratories of the Second Engineering Faculty of the Bologna University, are described. This project is being developed exploiting some different laser scanning technologies, with the goal to obtain a 3D survey of the sculpture called Ebe of Antonio Canova that is conserved in Forli.
Un viaggio attraverso il progetto per la valorizzazione del patrimonio archeologico e artistico dell'area "Ad Duas Lauros" a Roma. In Cut: valorizzare il passato attraverso il presente. The project "In the Cut"... more
Un viaggio attraverso il progetto per la valorizzazione del patrimonio archeologico e artistico dell'area "Ad Duas Lauros" a Roma. In Cut: valorizzare il passato attraverso il presente. The project "In the Cut" concerns the exploitation of land and abandoned buildings also called "Urban Voids". The project, focusing on these urban voids, also located on archaeological sites and especially on the "Ad duas Lauros" promote the use of such areas by purely cultural functions that can create and determine not only the value historic resources, but also economic development and employment.
La georeferenziazione di una immagine satellitare o di una fotografia aerea rispetto a un sistema di coordinate di riferimento risulta un processo spesso indispensabile per la comprensione del palinsesto archeologico. Al tempo stesso essa... more
La georeferenziazione di una immagine satellitare o di una fotografia aerea rispetto a un sistema di coordinate di riferimento risulta un processo spesso indispensabile per la comprensione del palinsesto archeologico. Al tempo stesso essa richiede tempi lunghi (a volte ore) e grande accuratezza. Un aiuto perridurre i tempi di individuazione e selezione di corrispondenze fra immagini da georeferenziare e sistema di destinazione, aumentando la precisione a livello sub-pixel, viene oggi offerto da un nuovo set di strumenti gratuiti: AutoGR-Toolkit. Geo-reference of Images with AutoGR-Toolkit AutoGR-Toolkit is a set of Pythonscripts converted to “.EXE” files with py2exe v0.6.9. The purpose of thetoolkit is to facilitate and speedup the process of geo-referencing images withfree and open source tools and graphical user-friendly interfaces. It embeds 4scripts (GGRAB, AuttoGR-Sift, GeoRef Filtering, GeoTiff Converter) and 2 algorithmlibraries (ASift and GDAL) to assist the user in geo-refe...
Historical craft’s relief - The historical importance of a craft’s relief,of which only a few copies for more built without a plan on paper, butonly with the method of the sixth, is an important cultural operationthat allows you to store... more
Historical craft’s relief - The historical importance of a craft’s relief,of which only a few copies for more built without a plan on paper, butonly with the method of the sixth, is an important cultural operationthat allows you to store and save forms, to study the hydrodynamiccharacteristics , compare with other similar boats and guide the subsequentwork of restoration or reconstruction of a twin hull.
Among the countless funerary monuments present in the Sahara, the corridor and enclosure tumulus (CET) display particularly original architectural features. Their chronology is now well established for the Nigerien Sahara, but remains... more
Among the countless funerary monuments present in the Sahara, the corridor and enclosure tumulus (CET) display particularly original architectural features. Their chronology is now well established for the Nigerien Sahara, but remains poorly known for the Tassili Azger in southeastern Algeria, despite the abundance of monuments identified. This article presents the first results of direct AMS 14 C dating of the mineral fraction (bioapatite) of human bones from three CET excavated in different sites of the Tassili Fadnoun in 2011. The results indicate that these burials date from the late 4 th or early 3 rd mill BCE and are of similar age to the ones of the CET of Emi Lulu in northern Niger. Despite an extensive geographic distribution across the Sahara, it appears that CET share several common characteristics especially in terms of architecture, burial practices and chronology.
Résumé Parmi les très nombreux monuments funéraires sahariens figure un type particulier et original: les tumulus à couloir et enclos (TCE). Leur chronologie, bien établie au Sahara nigérien est, malgré leur abondance, restée longtemps imprécise pour ceux de la Tassili Azger dans le Sud-est algérien. Cet article présente les premiers résultats de la datation 14 C directe par spectrométrie de masse par accélération (SMA) de la fraction minérale (bioapatite) d'ossements humains provenant de TCE fouillés dans trois sites différents de la Tassili du Fadnoun en 2011. Ils indiquent que ces sépultures datent de la fin du 4 e ou du début du 3 e mill av. n.e. et sont d'un âge comparable à celui des TCE du site d'Emi Lulu au Nord-est du Niger. Malgré une distribution géographique très étendue à l'échelle saharienne, les TCE partagent plusieurs carac-tères communs notamment en matière d'architecture, des modes d'inhumation et de chronologie.
CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal Nurnet (http://nurnet.crs4.it/nurnetgeo/) to manage and share information about the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy). The scope of this paper... more
CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal Nurnet (http://nurnet.crs4.it/nurnetgeo/) to manage and share information about the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy). The scope of this paper is to explain how the Geoportal Nurnet (net of Nuraghes, the typical Sardinian building from the Bronze Age) has been developed to promote the Bronze Age culture in Sardinia, identified in the Pre-Nuragic (3200−2700 BC) and Nuragic (up to the 2nd century AD ) civilization. It is fed by a net of conventional social connections and social web networks empowered by private citizens, agents and public administrations sharing the same goals and interests.
The goal of this article is to provide several practical procedures for working within the GIS environment in the archaeological sector, with specific reference to the excavation site, through open source methodologies and software such... more
The goal of this article is to provide several practical procedures for working within the GIS environment in the archaeological sector, with specific reference to the excavation site, through open source methodologies and software such as Qgis and PyArchinit. It will also demonstrate how to use the data derived from the survey, processed and managed through Qgis and PyArchinit for enhancement projects such as 3d modeling and 3d mapping through Blender software.
La necessità di rendere leggibile la realtà archeologica degli scavi delle Terme Vecciane di Aquinum ha portato alla realizzazione di un allestimento museale non tradizionale, ma basato sull’esperienza virtuale e sulla interazione diretta... more
La necessità di rendere leggibile la realtà archeologica degli scavi delle Terme Vecciane di Aquinum ha portato alla realizzazione di un allestimento museale non tradizionale, ma basato sull’esperienza virtuale e sulla interazione diretta tra visitatore e reperto: Il progetto Metateca.
The urban area and territory of Aquinum , roman city situated along the route of via Latina were investigated by means of aero-topographical studies, geophysical prospecting and archaeological field survey. The work has been organized... more
The urban area and territory of Aquinum , roman city situated along the route of via Latina were investigated by means of aero-topographical studies, geophysical prospecting and archaeological field survey. The work has been organized according to the great archaeological potentialities and the promising perspectives of research offered by the site. Casale Pascale, a rural dwelling owned by the municipality of Castrocielo, was used to create a new “musealization”: an innovative zoom on the archaeological site, based on augmented reality and of Kinect technology, in order to make intelligible to a wider audience as possible the structural evidence and the significant materials from the excavation.
L’esperienza condotta su San Michele in Isola si inserisce nel filone di ricerca della geomatica applicata allo studio dei Beni Culturali. Il rilievo di una facciata, operazione tradizionale in architettura, si caratterizza infatti come... more
L’esperienza condotta su San Michele in Isola si inserisce nel filone di ricerca della geomatica applicata allo studio dei Beni Culturali. Il rilievo di una facciata, operazione tradizionale in architettura, si caratterizza infatti come campo di applicazione per nuove tecnologie e strumenti e come possibilita di verifica delle metodologie gia consolidate. Dopo alcuni anni dal rilievo delle facciate monumentali delle chiese palladiane a Venezia, il Laboratorio di Fotogrammetria si e impegnato nel rilievo della facciata del Codussi con lo scopo di integrare diverse metologie di rilievo. La nuvola di punti, strumento molto utile nella realizzazione di disegni al tratto e di modelli tridimensionali, in questo caso deriva sia dalla scansione laser scanner sia dall’applicazione della fotogrammetria multimmagine alle immagini acquisite mediante un Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Oltre alle fasi di acquisizione in questa pubblicazione si vuole ragionare sulla comunicazione del disegno di arc...
Several new coinages were issued as a consequence of Alexander’s conquests, the dismemberment of his Empire and the consequent birth of Hellenistic kingdoms. These royal coinages constituted the main currency circulating for three... more
Several new coinages were issued as a consequence of Alexander’s conquests, the dismemberment of his Empire and the consequent birth of Hellenistic kingdoms. These royal coinages constituted the main currency circulating for three centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean. Analysis of the numerous coin hoards recorded for this period sometimes highlights the disappearance of coinages which were well-attested before. Examples of this can be seen in the Alexanders minted between the end of the third century and the very first decades of the second century, as well as in tetradrachms of both Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II in the second quarter of the second century. Our presentation aims to discuss the melting down of coins to mint new issues. It will be based on analysis of the elemental composition of coins and archaeometallurgical experiments to determine how the melting down and refining of metals impacts their composition. This will be considered within the broader context of numismatic and historical evidence.
The Museum of Imperial Fora is open since 2007 inside Trajan’s Markets. The main subject of the Communication System of the Museum is focused on the reconstructions of the ancient buildings, starting from the fragments inside in... more
The Museum of Imperial Fora is open since 2007 inside Trajan’s Markets. The main subject of the Communication System of the Museum is focused on the reconstructions of the ancient buildings, starting from the fragments inside in archaeological areas, to build again these extraordinary 3D puzzles. Moreover, the panels and captions are made mostly by images: the whole project of the Museum is planned by archaeologists, architects and communication experts.
The Archaeological Museum of Bologna has tested the application of digital technologies on some objects within the project "D12", aimed to connect 3D documentation with polychromy data. An Etruscan stela from Bologna, called... more
The Archaeological Museum of Bologna has tested the application of digital technologies on some objects within the project "D12", aimed to connect 3D documentation with polychromy data. An Etruscan stela from Bologna, called “Ducati 12”, gives its name to the project. 3D scanning tests made on some Etruscan artifacts within the project prove that nowadays archaeological and artistic material can be investigated through a low-cost, time-saving and reliable approach. Several 3D virtual data digital technologies were tested and after the postprocessing treatment some real applications on 3D data were realized. Multispectral and chemichal investigations were carried out on the objects. The results achieved allow to undertake an effective research project for the reconstruction of the polychromy in Etruscan age.
The rapid progress of both information technology and digital media allows for an increasing amount of effective and exciting ways of documenting and communicating our common cultural heritage. Three dimensional scanning through... more
The rapid progress of both information technology and digital media allows for an increasing amount of effective and exciting ways of documenting and communicating our common cultural heritage. Three dimensional scanning through photometry and laser, as well as augmented reality, photorealistic computer graphics and interactive displays; all these are technologies that in days to come will shape the profession of both archaeology and museology. This exploratory article describe the design and production process of a visualization of the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tivoli, part of the interdisciplinary research project Via Tiburtina — Space, Movement and Artefacts in the Urban Landscape at the Swedish Institute in Rome. We address both the philosophical and practical ramifications of communicating the past using technology which allows us to create representations that not only mimic reality but also shape society’s idea about reality through photorealistic visualizations. A peda...
