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- Title
NEW DIMENSIONS: 3D SCANNING OF IROQUOIAN EFFIGY CERAMICS.
- Authors
HULVEY, RACHAEL
- Abstract
The advent of three-dimensional representations of artifacts promises new opportunities for research regarding Iroquoian effigy faces on ceramics. The Virtual Curation Laboratory at VCU has created digital avatars of effigy faces, and these virtual representations increase access to these artifacts to a wider audience. With an increasingly large database of these effigies, scholars can have easier access to many artifacts, and recognizing trends within the ceramics of a community, between ceramics of different Iroquoian tribes, and with other media--such as pipe bowls--is made simpler. Digital representations open new avenues to showcasing research to the general public. Anyone interested can virtually manipulate sherds that are too fragile for excessive handling and feel involved with archaeological research.
- Subjects
THREE-dimensional imaging; IROQUOIS (North American people); EFFIGIES; CERAMICS; LABORATORIES; POTSHERDS; PIPE; CURATORSHIP; COMPUTER network resources; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0031-4358
- Publication type
Article