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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Buccellati, Federico,; Jarmer Scott, Sarah,; Kertai, David,; Nadali, Davide,; Pedde, Brigitte,; Pedde, Friedhelm,; Sanders, Donald H.,; Shafer, Ann,
• TeilnehmendeR: Buccellati, Federico.; Kertai, David.; Nadali, Davide.; Pedde, Brigitte.; Pedde, Friedhelm.; Sanders, Donald H.; Scott, Sarah J.; Shafer, Ann.
• HerausgeberIn: Micale, Maria Gabriella,; Nadali, Davide,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Regenerating Practices in Archaeology and Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 p.)

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 an...

Table of 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?