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Capturing the Senses : Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies by Giacomo Landeschi; Eleanor Betts is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human agency as important factors in studying ancient space, while recognising the role played by digital tools in enhancing a human-centred form of analysis. Significant advances in archaeological computing, digital methods, and sensory approaches have led archaeologists to rethink strategies and methods for creating narratives of the past. Recent progress in data visualisation and implementation, as well as other nascent digital sensory methods, means that it is now easier to explore and experience ancient space from a multiscalar perspective, from the individual body or single building to the wider landscape. The chapters in Capturing the Senses: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies present innovative methods for representing an embodied experience of ancient space, simulating (but not recreating) ancient behaviours and social interaction. Chapters cover topics including the potentials and pitfalls of visualising, re

Who reads Capturing the Senses : Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Giacomo Landeschi; Eleanor Betts
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9783031231353
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business, Science, History

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