Karolina ROSIŃSKA-BALIK
(Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Keywords: documentation; 3D reality; virtual reconstruction; archaeological tools
Abstract:
Methods and techniques of field work documentation are constantly being improved. In the era of visual media, it has become necessary to upgrade traditional drawings and records of structures unearthed during archaeological prospection. Documentation process of excavated sites has always been crucial especially when a considered feature, accordingly to specific destructive character of archaeological examination, is accessible to researchers for limited time. Parallel to graphic and visual improvement go possibilities of data interpretation. The new way of view produces not only eye-catching images but it could be a great resource for further consideration, testing hypotheses or research result presentation.
In my paper I would like to present development in documentation techniques implemented during over 15 years of excavation at the Tell el-Farkha site in Egypt. This Pre- and Early Dynastic site gives great opportunities since different types of features are registered on it starting from domestic structures at a settlement area, through industrial installations and ending on graves. I would like to focus on some specific structures discovered over the time – breweries. Several examples of these devices were recorded at the site and during the passing years they were documented in various styles (from traditional drawings, virtual reconstruction to 3D documentation). The goal of my paper is to present them all with all their pros and cons.