Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery: a new analysis of the Folkton Drums

Jones, Andrew Meirion; Cochrane, Andrew; Carter, Chris; Dawson, Ian; Díaz-Guardamino, Marta; Kotoula, Eleni; Minkin, Louisa

doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.127

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“…The evidence of erasure of 'eyebrow' motifs recently recorded on drum II ( Fig. 2; Jones et al 2015) suggests that differentiation of designs amongst the group of artefacts took place 'on the fly' during the act of making and carving.…”

Section: The Folkton Drumsmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…This visual tradition is shared with northern Portugal and Galicia, northern Spain (Alves 2012), where these abstract images are combined with representational images of zoomorphs (mainly deer), weaponry and the occasional anthropomorph (Fabregas Valcarce & Rodriguez-Rellán 2015). More complex motifs, such as rosettes, double spirals, stars and nested arcs are shared between passage tombs, certain open-air rock-art panels, pottery and decorated artefacts in Britain and Ireland (Bradley 1997;Cochrane et al 2015;Jones et al 2011), while some of these motifs-such as nested arcsare also found in French passage tombs (Shee Twohig 1981). Recent excavations around rock-art sites in Britain have produced Neolithic dates (Bradley et al 2012;Jones et al 2011)…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The 'drums' are three solid cylinders of chalk, of varying size (Jones 2012, 176). Recent digital analysis of these artefacts has revealed considerable evidence of erasure and re-working produced during the working of the chalk and subsequently (Jones et al 2015). I do not wish to dwell on this evidence in great detail here.…”

Section: The Folkton Drumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Art of Assemblage: Styling Neolithic Art

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The art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland consists of a variety of curvilinear and geometric motifs pecked into stone (in open-air rock art or passage tombs) or carved into portable artefacts of chalk, stone or antler. Because of its abstract nature the art has proved problematic for archaeologists. Initially archaeologists assumed the art was representational; now most scholars have abandoned this view, and simply approach the art stylistically. Here I argue that stylistic analysis is insufficient to understand this art: instead the process of making provides a fuller understanding of this art. It is argued that the practice of assemblage is a key aspect of the process of making.

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The Art of Assemblage: Styling Neolithic Art

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2017

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“…The procedure of recording described here is undoubtedly a resource for assessing the sequences of use of menhirs and "stelae-menhirs". As other megalithic slabs (Bueno-Ramírez et al, 2016) or objects (Jones et al, 2015), menhirs and "stelae-menhirs" are the final result of a series of tasks that might include the re-making, transformation and maintenance of monuments, whose display and exhibition must have played a relevant role.…”

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“3DMeshTracings”: A protocol for the digital recording of prehistoric art. Its application at Almendres cromlech (Évora, Portugal)

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Balbín-Behrmann

2019

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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The recording of megalithic art on menhirs in Western Iberia used to be performed through direct tracing. The use of photographic techniques represented an important advance in the interpretation of some of the most important prehistoric sites in this wide region, and also in the structuring of archaeological narratives. With the development of photogrammetry, the possibilities have improved considerably, enabling the recording of decorations not visible to the naked eye. In this paper, we present a new protocol to highlight the engravings on eroded surfaces, based on High Performance Computing and advanced algorithms for 3D mesh calculation. This tailored protocol has rendered expressive visual results that have succeeded in recording one of the most exceptional cromlechs in Western Europe: Almendres (Portugal). The results have proved the efficiency of the method and the need to revisit the classic megalithic sites.

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“…H-RTI metodunun kültürel miras araştırmalarına adapte edilmesiyle birlikte RTI kullanımı ivme kazanmaya başlamış ve son on yılda metodun yer aldığı proje ve araştırmalar büyük oranda artış göstermiştir. Metodun özellikle; prehistorya(Pitts et al 2014;Jones et al 2015), kaya sanatı(Mudge et al 2006;Duffy 2010;Mudge et al 2012), epigrafi (Kleinitz 2012; Kleinitz 2013; Piquette 2014; Tüner-Önen & Akçay 2014), konservasyon(Earl et al 2010;Artal-Isbrand et al 2011;Tamayo et al 2013), numismatik(Mudge et al 2005;Diaz-Guardamino & Wheatley 2013), paleontoloji(Newman 2014) etc. birçok disipline adapte edildiği ve materyallerin belgeleme ve analizine pozitif katkılar sunduğu bilimsel çalışmalarla deneyimlenmiştir.…”

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Epigrafi Araştırmalarında Yeni Bir Belgeleme ve Analiz Metodu Olarak RTI

Akçay¹

2016

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Günümüz teknolojisinin hızlı ilerleyişi sayısal görüntüleme metotlarına ivme kazandırmış ve kültürel miras araştırmalarına da yeni yaklaşımlar getirmiştir. Teknolojinin bilime sunduğu yeni belgeleme ve analiz metotları birçok disipline adapte edilerek araştırmaların detaylı ve hızlı bir biçimde yapılmasına imkan tanımaktadır. Burada sunulan çalışma son yıllarda kültürel miras araştırmalarında kullanılan Yansıtma Dönüşümlü Görüntüleme (Reflectance Transformation Imaging-RTI) metodunun epigrafi araştırmalarında yazıtların belgeleme ve analiz süreçlerine sunduğu yenilikleri incelemektedir. RTI, bir nesne yüzeyinin farklı açılardan aydınlatılmasıyla elde edilen görüntü verilerinden sentezlenen yansıtma değerlerini kullanarak nesne yüzeyinin mikro-topografyasını ortaya çıkaran sayısal bir fotoğraflama metodudur. Özellikle tahribata uğramış arkeolojik eserlerin yüzey detaylarının belgelenmesinde ve yorumlanmasında ya da yazıt taşıyıcısı yüzeyindeki aşınmış harflerin karakterize edilmesinde görsel algıyı artırarak analiz süreçlerine pozitif katkılar sunmaktadır. Çalışmada 'tahribatsız' belgelemeye ve çok yönlü analize imkan veren RTI metodunun teknik ardalanı ve çalışma prensipleri Phaselis epigrafi araştırmalarında yürütülen RTI çalışmalarından sunulan örnekler ışığında detaylı bir biçimde aktarılmıştır.

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Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery: a new analysis of the Folkton Drums

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Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

The Art of Assemblage: Styling Neolithic Art

The Art of Assemblage: Styling Neolithic Art

“3DMeshTracings”: A protocol for the digital recording of prehistoric art. Its application at Almendres cromlech (Évora, Portugal)

Epigrafi Araştırmalarında Yeni Bir Belgeleme ve Analiz Metodu Olarak RTI

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