The Use of 3D Models for Intra-Site Investigation in Archaeology
Nicoló dell'Unto Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University

Digital instruments are used in archaeology at any level their employment and diffusion increase the possibility to document and visualize, with high accuracy of details, the information detected during the archaeological investigation. In particular, the development of powerful visualisation platforms, such as the Geographic Information System (GIS), and the introduction of 3D digital acquisition tools, have procured the opportunity to fully document and study in three dimensions the spatial and temporal relations between the strata detected during the site investigation. The development of new functional methodologies to manage and analyse large three-dimensional data set of archaeological information allows reconstructing in three dimensions the sequence of actions performed by the archaeologists to investigate the site, opening to new opportunities to analyse and review -in the frame of the excavation campaign- the investigation strategy adopted in the field.In this seminar, the results of several experiments performed during field activities will be presented. In specific, the different approaches adopted to visualize in three dimensions the on-going investigation process will be compared and discussed.