ArchaeoBasti

ArchaeoBasti, 3 days ago to random

ICYMI: 🏺 Can a museum really forbid scanning their objects if they are presented publicly? A 2022 article by The Guardian presents us with a case between the Institute of Digital Archaeology against the British Museum. Is this a question about ownership?

🔗 https://archaeoinformatics.net/is-scanning-in-a-museum-legal/

ArchaeoBasti, 4 days ago to random

🏺 Heron of Alexandria (c. 10-70 CE) was a Greek-Egyptian mathematician and inventor. He lived in Roman Egypt and was a representative of Hellenistic Science. One of his inventions were automatically opening temple doors, powered by a fire altar and hydraulics.

The automated temple doors are described in his writings as invention “number 37”. The idea was, that temple doors should open automatically when a fire is lit and close again, when the fire distinguishes.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/heron-of-alexandira-automated-temple-doors/

ArchaeoBasti, 10 days ago to Archaeology

ICYMI: 🏺 So in 2022 I defended my #PhD in #Archaeology and it was an intense couple of weeks until it was finally over. I prepared for it, I practiced for it and I delivered. While everything was exhausting, it ended very well… Read about my past experience here

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/05/13/the-defense-of-my-phd/

ArchaeoBasti, 11 days ago to random

🏺 The probably three-storey ziggurat was surrounded by a complex system of walls and courts, which separated the holy district from the rest of the city. Archaeological records document various installations. Texts inform us that various activities were conducted in different courtyards.
In an extensive process, a range of secondary sources were consulted to create an image of over 4000 years ago. Over 4000 human models and 300 buildings were used in this view.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/the-ur-iii-period/

ArchaeoBasti, 14 days ago to random German

🏺 4,6 million people watched an archaeologist argue against a pseudo-archaeologist for over four hours.
@FlintDibble was a guest at the Joe Rogan Experience and debated Graham Hancock, creator of the Netflix show “Ancient Apocalypse”.
The debate was heated, but also an example of why communication with “alternative archaeologies” is so difficult. Here are my thoughts…

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2024/05/03/dibble-vs-hancock/

Eugen_pfister, 16 days ago to random German

Neuer Blogbeitrag: "Sind digitale Spiele politisch?" https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/5788

ArchaeoBasti, 17 days ago to random

ICYMI; A while ago I predicted, that the movie “Eternals” will be a colonialist disaster, but maybe at least entertaining. While I was right with the first prediction, I was wrong with the latter. It is a disaster, but not even entertaining.
In this post, I review the film and why I think it sets a bad example for showing the past in modern media.
📽️

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/05/06/why-eternals-is-a-bad-movie/

ArchaeoBasti, 18 days ago to random

Qantir/Pi-Ramesse (House of Ramses) is situated in the Nile-Delta of Egypt, about 120 km northeast of Cairo. The city was founded by Ramesses II. in the 13th century BCE. A nearly 7-minute animation and several still images could be created during a time-span of nine months. Especially the visualisation of the horse stables was of upmost importance, as these were excavated quiet well. Besides that, the urban structure of the city was visualised very carefully.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/the-reconstruction-of-pi-ramesse/

FlintDibble, 19 days ago to random

I wrote some thoughts about my strategy and impact from facing down Graham Hancock. In the Guardian!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/lost-civilisations-make-good-tv-ancient-apocalypse-but-archaeology-real-stories-hold-far-more-wonder

ArchaeoBasti, 25 days ago to random

Mari, modern Tell Hariri, located in Syria is one of the most famous sites in West Asia, and dates from the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The excavations at the Massif Rouge, a massive red-bricked terrasse, offers a very complicated excavation and research history.
We created a detailed model of the area by hand. This form of documentation-based reconstruction was the only way to create a 3D model out of the old and new excavation data.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/visualisation-of-the-massif-rouge-in-mari/

ArchaeoBasti, 28 days ago to random

🏺 This week I was giving a presentation about my Ashurbanipal relief sub-project. Instead of presenting just results, I told a story and it went better than anticipated…

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2024/04/19/presentation-about-the-banquet-scene-of-ashurbanipal/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to Archaeology

#500CharAbstracts: Erik Champion explains how video games can help learning in #archaeology.
He asks the question of game mechanics and how these are used. What should a #digitalgame consist of, if it is to teach us something?

This article is part of a broader book about communicating the ancient past 2020 at Ubiquity: Communicating the Past in the Digital Age.

#openaccess 🏺
🔗 http://www.doi.org/10.5334/bch.b

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

🏺 The Stone Building (Steingebäude) of Uruk is a semi-subterranean building made of stone, that comprises of three rectangle rooms, that are nested in each other. The access was made trough a ramp leading down from the surface level. The inner floor was paved with stone slabs.
The function might be a grave. It is also unclear, if the building was only sub-terranean and had a flat or no roof at all, or if a super-structure was standing above the Stone Building.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/stone-building-of-uruk/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random German

Archaeologists! Let's learn how to do this 😅

Tactical Trowel
https://youtube.com/shorts/NgYKWf3DTAQ?si=VME-h0NCJPOJk7Gp

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to Archaeology

#500CharAbstracts: @scschmidt describes here what #percolation analysis is and how it is used to cluster data and create wonderful informative maps. It is a useful approach at very different scales. If you are interested, have a look here. #Archaeology 🏺

🔗 http://archaeoinformatics.net/percolation-analysis-lets-cluster-it/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

The reconstruction of the Great Hall in Karakorum was visualised with an animation to be able to explain the complicated composition of the terrace as well as the ‘Great Hall’, that shows influences of Chinese and Tibetan architecture.

Especially the accurate realisation of the archaeological documented results was important to us. The animation is displayed in a nearby museum. Therefore, the translation of the explaining texts into Mongolian is self-explanatory.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/karakorum-the-reconstruction-of-the-great-hall/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random German

🏺 Getting funding quickly turns into getting income, which is not the same and has different intentions. In this post, I explore how I stumbled over this while researching funds and what the problem with this is. Do you feel the same?

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2024/04/05/getting-funding-for-science-or-doing-science-for-funding/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

ICYMI: I was struggling writing my PhD for quite a while. One phone call changed that completely & I learned, that motivation is key. After 5 years of struggling, I started organising & it took me 2 years to finish. If I had known... #PhDLife

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2022/04/22/looking-back-at-writing-my-phd/

Eugen_pfister, 1 month ago to random

Which games from the 1980s and 1990s do you remember with teenager protagonists? #GameStudies

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

We scientifically reconstructed and visualised the Riemchen-Building. Is was constructed subterranean and was only looking out of the sourounding area. It is assumed, that the building was only accessible through the roof with the help of a ladder.

The building is interesting, because inside the sourounding corridor and central room were a lot of objects found. The function of the building is not clear, but it is possible, that it was a grave of some sort.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/the-riemchen-building/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

🏺 After visiting the British Museum scanning the Banquet Scene of Ashurbanipal, after scanning further fragments in Berlin and Leiden, I returned to London to scan an additional piece of the puzzle. This will be the last piece I scanned for the wider relief of room S of the North Palace in Niniveh. At least until 2028…

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2024/03/29/a-new-trip-to-the-british-museum/

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random German

I am working here today. Looking forward to it!

ArchaeoBasti, 1 month ago to random

🏺 For three years now I am doing this blog. Except some minor irregularities, I posted every single week. How I do it? Well, glad that you asked… In this post I give a very simple and short answer to the question on how I write consistetly.

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2024/03/22/how-to-write-consistently/