Photogrammetry for Archaeology: Collecting Pieces Together

Abstract

The complexity of retrieving and understanding the archaeological data requires to apply different techniques, tools and sensors for information gathering, processing and documenting. Archaeological research now has the interdisciplinary nature involving technologies based on different physical principles for retrieving information about archaeological findings. The important part of archaeological data is visual and spatial information which allows reconstructing the appearance of the findings and relation between them. Photogrammetry has a great potential for accurate acquiring of spatial and visual data of different scale and resolution allowing to create archaeological documents of new type and quality. The aim of the presented study is to develop an approach for creating new forms of archaeological documents, a pipeline for their producing and collecting in one holistic model, describing an archaeological site. A set of techniques is developed for acquiring and integration of spatial and visual data of different level of details. The application of the developed techniques is demonstrated for documenting of Bosporus archaeological expedition of Russian State Historical Museum.

Documentation of Archaeological Stratigraphic Units. New Digital Technologies Applied to the Burials in Sant’andrea in Mombasiglio

“…Although a digital approach allows to easy collecting new type of archaeological document, it is not still widely used in the current practice of archaeology (Knyaz et al, 2017). The reasons could be: "historical traditions" of archaeological documenting, initial costs of producing 3D data (Chibunichev et al, 2018) and the "difficulty to integrate 3D world with other more standard 2D material" (Remondino et al 2010). Furthermore, the big amount of data collected by digital instruments forces the researches to change their approaches and their methods for new kind of data processing (Wagtendonk et al, 2009), (Eppich et al, 2013), (Pollefeys et al, 2001), (Berndt et al, 2010).…”

Care of Ancient Human Remains. Conservation and Management With 3d Modeling and DBMS

“…For the purposes of suitable anthropological documentation, aimed at the morphological, morphometric, palaeopathological and biomechanical study of individual bone remains, there was a need for the calibration of the photographic instrumentation with high resolution, that is, able to guarantee a high accuracy of the anatomical details. At the same time, in the phase of elaboration of the polygonal/three-dimensional model (Reverse Modeling) particular attention was paid to the editing phase (Chibunichev, Knyaz, Zhuravlev & Kurkov, 2018;Seguchi & Dudzik 2019). This is because software or non-specialized operators in the anthropological field could correct the various geometries by adopting parameters connected with the aesthetic rendering of the 3D product, effectively homogenizing the surfaces, decimating the meshes and closing the gaps.…”

3d Reconstruction and Image Processing of Anthropological Archaeological Findings

“…Non-contact measurement techniques are widely implemented today on various stages of archaeological research (starting from the initial phases of excavations to documenting, analysing and restoration of findings) and preserving cultural heritage (Badiu et al, 2015;Chibunichev et al, 2018;Scianna and La Guardia, 2018;Vasilyev et al, 2019). Usually, the material used for studies in archaeology, anthropology or palaeoanthropology is unique and requires significant effort to obtain, preserve as well as to study.…”