Good morning, now we are looking at the technology behind archeology. I am sure you have seen a few episodes of the Time Team and how they deploy the technology. Now this documentary is about technology and its impact on archeology. The run time for this documentary is 42:25. This documentary is called Archeology 2.0: Exploring the Past with Technology.
In this age, archaeology works hand in hand with digital technology. Geophysics offers a range of techniques to further explore the past. Geomagnetism used to have military applications but now has an application in archeology. Digital technology is often employed on shipwreck sites to help create virtual models of shipwrecks. Other forms of digital technology are used to scan ancient sites with the idea to recreate them. Technology has evolved over the years and you would be surprised to discover how much these developments have impacted archeology. Archeology works hand and hand with technology to help discover new sites and determine where to dig. This documentary kicks off with a trip to an Irish church. A group of German and Irish archeology is working to document this site. This church is in the heart of an ancient landscape. The next clip shows a digital recreation of the graves that were discovered in this area. Archeologists use sensors on the landscape to check out what lies beneath. Using scanners and magnetometers are gathering data to help archeologist to plan for the dig. With these devices, archeologists can cover more acres than if they would dig the site right away. Archeologists are looking for evidence of ancient lives before they even put a shovel in the ground. Once the data is collected and a computer maps out what is in the ground. I am missing John Gater in this section. Then we go to Berlin to check out another form of technical archeology. It is in the gaming studio where archeological finds are scanned and digitized into images. Kay Kohlmeyer talks about how technology has had an impact on technology. Using technology to help further the study of archeology is proving to be a major shock to archeologists. It is here, that a recreation of a site at Aleppo has been made. The computer models allow for changing conditions to give the archaeologists a different look at the site. Unfortunately, the sites at Aleppo are gone but by a stroke of luck, the site went under a 3D Scan. With these scans, archeologists were able to recreate the temple sites in Aleppo. The images that were scanned are often clearer than those on the site itself. The next trip we take is to the bottom of the sea. Technology has had a big impact on marine archeology as well. In the past, only extraordinary shipwrecks were brought up and restored. With technology, ships are able to be scanned and recreated in 3D models. These models show how the ships were built and how they would have been sailed. There is a ship that was not recoverable, so archeologists have scanned the ship. The wood has been perfectly preserved other than erosion. One artifact in the Berlin Museum, a wooden dome from the Alhambra Palace is being scanned to recreate it. This will enable people to look at the dome in a different light and more people can view the recreations as well. How else has technology had an impact on archeology? What other segments of archeology benefit from the application of technology? How do archeologists feel about technology creeping in on archeology? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more! I enjoyed how the filmmakers broke down the documentary into different areas of archeology. It would have been nice if the channel would have broken this up into chapters for easier viewing. That said, you can tell the different segments apart even without the chapters segmented out. This would be a good compliment to the Time Team series because it discusses the different technology used in archeology. I would have enjoyed more of a discussion on changing archeologists’ minds about technology though. Overall, this was an excellent watch and would be something I would show to both a history class and a technology class.
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