ArchZoo3D: Image and 3D data Analysis for Archeological Surveying
Funded by: PEPS HuMaIn - 2013-2015
Web: http://le2i.cnrs.fr
Partners:
LE2I, Université de Bourgogne
ICube, University of Strasbourg
ARTEHIS, CNRS
Summary:
The motivation of this project is the archaeologists' interest in studying rites performed in Iron Age societies through the analysis of spatial arrangements of excavated relics and, more importantly, animal skeletons. The spatial arrangement of animal bones may indeed shed some light on certain religious practices. This generally requires working on replicas of the excavated bones, or better, digitized instances of these. To this end, a comprehensive library of 3D models representing the entire skeleton of a horse obtained using a 3D laser scanner was built. However, in order to recover the entire 3D model of the animal’s skeleton, the digitized bones needed to be positioned in space by relying on photographs captured in situ while documenting the excavation process. Thus, the primary objective is to determine the spatial arrangement of bones of horses found in an archaeological site, to obtain the 3D reconstruction of the scene.
Publications
Funded by: PEPS HuMaIn - 2013-2015
Web: http://le2i.cnrs.fr
Partners:
LE2I, Université de Bourgogne
ICube, University of Strasbourg
ARTEHIS, CNRS
Summary:
The motivation of this project is the archaeologists' interest in studying rites performed in Iron Age societies through the analysis of spatial arrangements of excavated relics and, more importantly, animal skeletons. The spatial arrangement of animal bones may indeed shed some light on certain religious practices. This generally requires working on replicas of the excavated bones, or better, digitized instances of these. To this end, a comprehensive library of 3D models representing the entire skeleton of a horse obtained using a 3D laser scanner was built. However, in order to recover the entire 3D model of the animal’s skeleton, the digitized bones needed to be positioned in space by relying on photographs captured in situ while documenting the excavation process. Thus, the primary objective is to determine the spatial arrangement of bones of horses found in an archaeological site, to obtain the 3D reconstruction of the scene.
Publications