Spatiotemporal data as the foundation of an archaeological stratigraphy extraction and management system

Roo, Berdien De; Stal, Cornelis; Lonneville, Britt; Wulf, Alain De; Bourgeois, Jean; Maeyer, Philippe De

doi:10.1016/j.culher.2015.12.001

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“…Despite limitations, such as the need for an institutional Esri license, the app's integration with the project GIS and collaborative features enhanced in-field decision-making and interpretation across the survey team. Furthermore, the significance of spatiotemporal data in archaeological stratigraphy extraction and management is presented in [33]. The authors propose a system that utilizes these data for recording stratigraphic units in three dimensions along with associated temporal data, enhancing site understanding and management.…”

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An Innovative System for Enhancing Archaeological In Situ Excavation through Geospatial Integration

Dimara,

Tsakiridis,

Psarros

et al. 2024

Heritage

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The field of archaeological excavation has seen enormous developments as a result of the quick development of digital technologies. It is critical to acknowledge the long-term benefits of new approaches. In this regard, this study intends to suggest a system that provides archaeologists with digital tools that allow them to fully and effectively document their excavations in real time while in the field, which is specifically designed for classical and Byzantine archaeology. The system not only facilitates traditional documentation practices but also integrates advanced geospatial technologies and augmented reality, enhancing the accuracy and depth of archaeological research and preservation. This dual functionality enables both the efficient recording of excavation data as experienced by excavators on-site and the detailed documentation processed by researchers post-excavation. The objective of the application is to generate a sophisticated system that will enable the excavation data and experience that the excavator gains on the site of work to be recorded in real time, as well as the documentation that is subsequently processed and accomplished by the researcher or by other researchers. The system saves detailed images and 3D models of artifacts and excavation sites. This ensures that every detail is recorded while preserving the data for future analysis and reference. Lastly, the application was tested in realistic use case scenarios and real-world settings, which increased the system’s credibility and demonstrated its capability to enhance the procedures involved in archaeological excavation and documentation.

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“…Addressing these limitations is vital to harnessing the full potential of these digital tools while ensuring their seamless integration into archaeological research and documentation. ArcGIS Collector [32] and spatiotemporal data [33] ArcGIS Collector app, spatiotemporal data system…”

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An Innovative System for Enhancing Archaeological In Situ Excavation through Geospatial Integration

Dimara,

Tsakiridis,

Psarros

et al. 2024

Heritage

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“…The analytical concepts proposed by Harris and the logical framework behind the making of a Harris Matrix made possible mathematical formalizations. Different searchers have worked on such formalizations, from the earliest characterizations of the Harris Matrix as a partially ordered set [10], to recent works integrating formalized processing of stratigraphic sequences with GIS and spatial analyses [11], [12]. These works resulted in some computerized tools, able to draw automatically a Harris Matrix, for instance Stratify [13], MatrixComposer [14], or our application Le Stratifiant [6].…”

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From observed successions to quantified time: formalizing the basic steps of chronological reasoning

Desachy

2016

ACTA IMEKO

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This paper is about the chronological reasoning used by field archaeologists. It presents a formalized and computerizable but simple way to make more rigorous and explicit the moving from the stratigraphic relative chronology to the quantified “absolute” time, adding to the usual Terminus Post Quem and Terminus Ante Quem notions an extended system of inaccuracy intervals which limits the beginnings, ends and durations of stratigraphic units and relationships. These intervals may be processed as an inequations system, integrating stratigraphic order relationships and available dating sources. Questions about chronological units grouping, about the differences between stratigraphic time and historical time, about the extension of the exposed chronological frame to historic entities, and about the processing of uncertainties, are discussed. Finally, the present state of computerized tools using this way is briefly indicated.

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“…DOT is a very well documented programming language with an active support community of developers. It has been used for automatic generation of Harris Matrices in excavations such as the case of Gortyna, Crete (Costa, 2007), and have been incorporated in excavation management systems (De Roo et al, 2016;Motz and Carrier, 2013) and CIDOC-CRM mappings (Carver, 2013). Surprisingly, very few studies of Pleito have addressed the complex superimposed paintings at the site.…”

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Interactive relighting, digital image enhancement and inclusive diagrammatic representations for the analysis of rock art superimposition: The main Pleito cave (CA, USA)

Kotoula

Robinson

Bedford

2018

Journal of Archaeological Science

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This paper deals with the documentation, and virtual visual analysis of pictographs using interactive relighting, digital image enhancement techniques and diagrammatic representations. It discusses areas of interest for the analysis of low surface detail, large and geometrically complex superimposed pictographs. The synergy of reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and decorrelation stretch (DS) aimed to improve the study of superimposition via the enhanced visualization of the surface morphology, dominant features, paint characteristics and layering. Additionally, diagrammatic representations of the results of the image-based analysis provided a valuable tool for interpretation and integration of the diverse dataset from the ongoing research in the Pleito Cave in California. This method allows revisiting unresolved hypotheses concerning the site by unpacking chemical and visual data in superimposed sequences.

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Spatiotemporal data as the foundation of an archaeological stratigraphy extraction and management system

Cited by 10 publications

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An Innovative System for Enhancing Archaeological In Situ Excavation through Geospatial Integration

An Innovative System for Enhancing Archaeological In Situ Excavation through Geospatial Integration

From observed successions to quantified time: formalizing the basic steps of chronological reasoning

Interactive relighting, digital image enhancement and inclusive diagrammatic representations for the analysis of rock art superimposition: The main Pleito cave (CA, USA)

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