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How Do We Want the Past to Be? : On Methods and Instruments of Visualizing Ancient Reality / ed. by Maria Gabriella Micale, Davide Nadali.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Regenerating Practices in Archaeology and HeritagePublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (175 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463205447
  • 9781463236687
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DOCUMENTS -- WORKING ON OLD NEAR EASTERN EXCAVATIONS -- MESOPOTAMIA: A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY -- SPACES -- IMAGINING SECOND STOREYS IN LATE ASSYRIAN PALACES: THE ARCHITECTURAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF JAMES FERGUSSON AND JEAN-CLAUDE MARGUERON -- RE-ENVISIONING INFORMATION: THE MAPS WE MAKE OF ANCIENT ASSYRIAN PALACES -- THE (DIS)EMBODIMENT OF ARCHITECTURE: REFLECTIONS ON THE MIRRORING EFFECTS OF VIRTUAL REALITY -- IMAGINING ARCHITECTURAL SPACE: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR ASSYRIAN PALACES -- MODELS -- THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF VIRTUAL HERITAGE -- WHAT MIGHT A FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST WANT FROM AN ARCHITECTURAL 3D MODEL?
Summary: How Do We Want the Past to Be? The question is not purely rhetoric: rather, it points out the importance of how archaeologists deal with the interpretation and visualization of the past that they excavate and study. The essays in this book offer a contribution to the current debate on archaeology and the contemporary methodological approaches to the study of ancient Near Eastern architecture.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DOCUMENTS -- WORKING ON OLD NEAR EASTERN EXCAVATIONS -- MESOPOTAMIA: A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY -- SPACES -- IMAGINING SECOND STOREYS IN LATE ASSYRIAN PALACES: THE ARCHITECTURAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF JAMES FERGUSSON AND JEAN-CLAUDE MARGUERON -- RE-ENVISIONING INFORMATION: THE MAPS WE MAKE OF ANCIENT ASSYRIAN PALACES -- THE (DIS)EMBODIMENT OF ARCHITECTURE: REFLECTIONS ON THE MIRRORING EFFECTS OF VIRTUAL REALITY -- IMAGINING ARCHITECTURAL SPACE: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR ASSYRIAN PALACES -- MODELS -- THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF VIRTUAL HERITAGE -- WHAT MIGHT A FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST WANT FROM AN ARCHITECTURAL 3D MODEL?

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How Do We Want the Past to Be? The question is not purely rhetoric: rather, it points out the importance of how archaeologists deal with the interpretation and visualization of the past that they excavate and study. The essays in this book offer a contribution to the current debate on archaeology and the contemporary methodological approaches to the study of ancient Near Eastern architecture.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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