Date/Time: 11 May 2017

Venue: The Armstrong Building, B 2.16

Speaker

David Fairbairn (Newcastle University) 

Abstract

Using two case studies in northern England, a variety of terrain visualisations of archaeological sites (exemplifying surficial mining and other human activity in different time periods, from Neolithic to C20th) have been constructed.  An eventual aim is to use the data and its visualisation to classify the mining remnants in the terrain by era and by function, and to enhance the study of comparative landscape archaeology across the sites.  Further, the possibilities of assessing the interaction between expert archaeologists and the visualisations will be considered, using tools which quantify the way in which displays are viewed, with possible applications in landscape characterisation and teaching of archaeology.