Archaeogaming

Rassalle, Tine

doi:10.1086/712387

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“…Those digital reconstructions are easily accessible through the web and gaming platforms, therefore being able to reach a wide audience that values playing as a learning experience. The value of archaeogaming (Rassalle 2021) and storytelling techniques for engaging the user to learn about history and archaeology has been widely recognized by the scholarly community (Reinhard 2018) 15 and should be taken into consideration when building new scholarly digital projects.…”

Section: Digital Egyptomaniamentioning

confidence: 99%

From Virtual Reality to virtual restitution: How 3D-Egyptology can contribute to decolonizing the field and the question of digital copies vs the original

Lucarelli

2023

Can’t Touch This: Digital Approaches to Materiality in Cultural Heritage

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3D digital and printed replicas of various ancient Egyptian antiquities, from statues and busts to coffins, stelas and other magical objects, are becoming increasingly popular on the web as well as in museums, but some issues and challenges related to replicas and copies in the study and fruition of the ancient Egyptian heritage remain, which include difficult questions of intellectual property rights and accessibility of the virtual platforms where the replicas are shared. The 3D models of the ancient Egyptian coffins produced for the “Book of the Dead in 3D” project housed at the University of California, Berkeley, will be taken as a case-study to analyze and discuss those issues. Given the importance of annotations on 3D models of an inscribed artifact such as an ancient Egyptian coffin, this article will also discuss the materiality of the text and its digital reproduction, and how the metadata of a historical object and its text decoration need to be produced “responsibly” and according to museum ethics, to ensure sustainability and access in the language of origin of the artifact. The issue of “decolonization” will be analyzed in relation to the use of Virtual and Augmented Reality in the digital reconstructions of archaeological sites, monuments, and artifacts in Egypt, through examples of VR apps such as “From the Museum to the Tomb”, a joint project of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, where a 26th Dynasty’s stone sarcophagus is virtually replaced in his tomb and analyzed in its original ritual space.

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Section: Digital Egyptomaniamentioning

confidence: 99%

From Virtual Reality to virtual restitution: How 3D-Egyptology can contribute to decolonizing the field and the question of digital copies vs the original

Lucarelli

2023

Can’t Touch This: Digital Approaches to Materiality in Cultural Heritage

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“…As with other areas of contemporary archaeology, archaeogaming interrogates our definitions of artifact, assemblage, site, and "the past," and in practice, it has required reconsiderations of the methods and theoretical frameworks archaeologists commonly use. From its blogbased origins (Reinhard 2013), archaeogaming now has over a decade of established scholarship: extensive introductions to-and histories of-archaeogaming may be found in Rassalle (2021) and Politopoulos et alia (2023). Initially, archaeogaming was undertaken by gamer archaeologists who recognized that they were playing games in ways that were grounded in their archaeological training and knowledge.…”

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Experimental Archaeogaming

Aycock,

Biittner

2024

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Archaeogaming is an area of increasing interest within archaeology. As archaeogaming's theory and practice are being fleshed out, it is worth considering if there are parallels to traditional archaeological methods within the study of video games. Here, we examine one such possibility: is there an archaeogaming equivalent to experimental archaeology? As a case study, we explore the system used for the mid-1980s development of an unreleased video game prototype for the game company Activision. Through examining this development system, whose use would be otherwise invisible in the finished software artifact, we demonstrate how we have both reconstructed a seemingly lost piece of the system virtually and used this reconstruction for experiments. The methodology we describe can be applied to digital artifacts within contemporary archaeology beyond the scope of video games, and it illustrates some key differences between studying physical and digital artifacts.

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