The Archaeology of Underground Mining Landscapes

White, Paul

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“…Nowadays, thanks to modern instruments, we can document an area of huge size with calculation accuracy down to centimetres, sometimes even millimetres, as well as the amount of rock extracted and more. Modern technologies such as laser scanners thus allow us to map and extract data from hard-to-reach areas such as mines where other technologies are not ideal, either because of the confined spaces or the light conditions that exist in the mine (Lee et al, 2019, Makkonen et al, 2015, White, 2016.…”

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Modern Methods of Documentation and Visualization of Historical Mines in the Unesco Mining Region in the Ore Mountains

Pavelka jr.,

Běloch,

Pavelka

2023

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The article focuses on modern methods of mining activity documentation and visualization. The development of technologies that allow us to display 3D models are many in recent years, from web portals, augmented reality using smartphones or tablets to virtual reality glasses. These technologies give us a whole new way of looking at and viewing 3D models. In this study, we will use most of the available options to visualize mining activities in the UNESCO-protected Ore Mountains. Each of these technologies needs differently prepared data. Because each of these technologies have different limits, we need to find these limits and modify the 3D models. The ZEB Revo laser scanner was used for data acquisition, which uses SLAM technology and is much more suitable for such areas than conventional terrestrial scanners, with which the work is lengthy and not nearly as efficient, and not the least of which eliminates the time-consuming post-scan work of merging scans. Especially when using scanning for mining, where there is not quite enough to go around, manually splicing scans is a nightmare, and automatic post-production merging is also often problematic.

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Section: Introduction 11 Documentation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modern Methods of Documentation and Visualization of Historical Mines in the Unesco Mining Region in the Ore Mountains

Pavelka jr.,

Běloch,

Pavelka

2023

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…As Schroer & Schmitt (2020) underline, the englobing characteristic of atmospheres arises out of a constellation of things and empowers the perceived quality of a specific situation. In the underground manufactured world of first mines and then transport infrastructure, a world working continuously to produce separates and distinguishes itself from the rhythms of the city (White, 2016). The segregation below ground continued the living patterns and social relations above ground.…”

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Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres

Kanellopoulou¹

2022

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The underground is strongly linked to imaginaries woven by humans' actions towards the unexplored world below their feet. It has nourished myths and fictions about the afterlife, escapism and exile. In Plato's Republic, the allegory of the soldier Er, descending to the Inferno (Richardson, 1926) revives humanity's fears and beliefs about communication with the unknown and the challenge of limits. In Homer's Iliad, the dead also descend to a subterranean realm ruled by gods. In the Homeric Odyssey, the katábasis is described as a heroic journey to a supernatural world (Burgess, 2016). Although underground ways of life have been envisaged in literature, fiction, religion and folk tales, human settlements throughout history have reaffirmed practical ways of living on the Earth's surface through adaptation to each region's climate. Visions and imaginaries about the underworld have profoundly changed with the advent of industrial society, by mechanising, measuring and wishing to conquer every inch of the terra. The underground world was rationalised while it was accessed, tamed and forged by new aspirations about the expandable limits of humankind's territory. The troglodyte (from the Greek, meaning living in holes) houses and settlements dispersed around the globe remind us of human beings' ongoing efforts to protect their bodies from hostile weather, but also of the effort to deal with the scarcity of building materials and comfort of housing conditions. But what link could one make between Friedrich Engels's criticism of the unhealthy, wretched conditions of the working classes in industrial Manchester and Liverpool, the semi-underground apartments for migrant populations in Athens (Maloutas & Botton, 2021) or the abandoned bunkers providing refuge for the unwanted of society's global metropolises? The stratification of classes in human settlements is the result of finite, valuable (for its use) space and the constant quest for better living conditions "on an upper level" with sufficient air and light. This social stratification of the urban environment was celebrated by architects and planners of the 20 th century 1 who wished to structure the city vertically -such as Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres Ambiances, 8 | 2022

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The Archaeology of the Gold Dredge: The Final Phase of Placer Mining

Delgado

2023

J Mari Arch

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The Archaeology of Underground Mining Landscapes

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Modern Methods of Documentation and Visualization of Historical Mines in the Unesco Mining Region in the Ore Mountains

Modern Methods of Documentation and Visualization of Historical Mines in the Unesco Mining Region in the Ore Mountains

Introduction to the special issue Underground Atmospheres

The Archaeology of the Gold Dredge: The Final Phase of Placer Mining

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