 |
 |
The Archaeology Channel Newsletter |  |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Welcome to Vol. 3, Issue 1 of The Archaeology Channel Newsletter!
Every time I sit down to write a newsletter introduction I worry that I won’t be taken seriously. You see, I always seem to relate how we are progressing faster and faster. It often feels unreal to me, so how can I expect you to believe it? I suppose the best way to achieve credibility is to provide the evidence, so here goes. Here I’ll mention our Meyer Memorial Trust grant, underwriting breakthroughs with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and The Fifth Network, my recent whirlwind tour of California and its potential results, a new partnership to produce a children’s TV series, two new key staff members, and my trips to San Diego and Williamsburg, Virginia. Let’s see if there’s room for all that. This past November, we received a check for $14,770 from the Meyer Memorial Trust one of the leading philanthropic foundations in Oregon, for a project called “Technical Infrastructure Renewal.” This grant, the full amount we asked for, is supporting a complete upgrade of our office computers, software, and other equipment and even furniture. See below for more about this. Recently, we signed two new underwriting agreements that have significantly improved our financial status. On December 1, The Fifth Network, a Madison Avenue advertising firm, agreed to contribute $7500 over a period of six months in connection with their promotional campaign for the Arizona Office of Tourism. You’ll find their banners on the TAC Home Page and other TAC pages. And on December 29, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism agreed to contribute $17,000 (our largest single agreement yet!) in relation to their banner on the TAC Home Page and an audio spot in the introduction of the Audio News from Archaeologica, our weekly news summary. We need to follow these agreements with others like them in order to meet our goals, but we have good reason to be encouraged about our Underwriting Program. Just after Thanksgiving, in late November, I arranged four meetings with various partners in California. I met at Stanford University with archaeologist Dr. Michael Shanks of the Stanford Archaeology Center and others about a project to webcast scheduled TAC video programming (including content produced by Stanford) over the Internet2 network. I conferred with Google Video regarding our partnership with them. I met with our partners at Nacio Systems who host our streaming media content, to review our arrangement. Perhaps in the end the greatest impact from my California trip will come from my meeting in Santa Barbara with a major television producer about a new TV series for general audiences that may be shown on PBS. See more details about my California trip in the article posted below. In November, Shirleen Sando, Executive Producer for Nonfiction Television (NFTV) of Kennett, MO, contacted us in connection with a children’s TV series NFTV is developing for broadcast on PBS in partnership with the National Educational Telecommunications Association and Ways & Means Film and Television. This consortium is seeking a National Science Foundation planning grant for the show, which will put kids into archaeological field projects and has the potential to reach a US audience in the tens of millions. As a result of our discussions, ALI now is one of the production partners and program distribution plans are expanded to include webcasting on TAC. Direct benefits to ALI include both cash income and significantly enhanced promotion of TAC to a vast audience. Stay tuned for further news about this exciting project! Expanding our staff in our Eugene office is critical to our success, as we have far more opportunities (just out of reach!) than we have the personnel to pursue. So we are very happy to announce two new local volunteers who came to us in November: Emily Dayton and Susie Johnston. As our new Office Assistant, Emily is now busy drafting and compiling pages for the TAC Festival 2007 Program to be distributed to our Festival audience in May. Susie has embarked, as our new Development Officer, on a campaign to raise the significant levels of funding needed to ensure that TAC Festival 2007 ends up in the black. In early January I flew off to San Diego for the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, where we had been asked to present two films for a scheduled event called “Friday Night at the Movies.” The room for that was packed, with standing room only, while we showed The Secrets of the Karakoum and Kingdom of the Nabateans, both of which were among the most popular films at TAC Festival 2006. In exchange for showing the films, the AIA gave us a booth in the Exhibit Hall, where we promoted TAC and TAC Festival, and from which I ventured out to promote our Underwriting Program with all the other exhibitors. I was assisted there in a consulting capacity by Ms. Burçu Harbert, a Los Angeles staff member of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Also assisting as a volunteer was Dr. Peter Allen, Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. Only one week later I made a quick trip to the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Williamsburg, Virginia, where I was invited to deliver a paper in a symposium on the relevance of archaeology to modern society. There I described my experience in developing TAC as a platform for approaching the relevance issue. Now it appears the symposium will be published, so my networking and promoting there will be amplified in print. I’ve run on longer than intended, but the length of this introduction represents the very full agenda we’ve pursued over the last several months. I’m sure that some of these story lines will re-emerge in future newsletters. My final plug is this: please be generous in your support of ALI. All that stands between us and our many opportunities are the resources to take advantage of them! Rick Pettigrew
By Rick Pettigrew This article is being written on a brand-new Dell Optiflex 745 computer with an Intel Core2 Duo microprocessor, 1 GB of RAM, a 7200 rpm 250 GB hard drive, and a really nice 19-inch flat panel display, one of four such machines ALI recently bought with grant funds from the Meyer Memorial Trust. It’s a joy to use and just part of the story! As I mentioned above, the Meyer Memorial Trust sent us a check for $14,770 this past November to completely upgrade the computers, other equipment, software, and even furniture in our office. We had asked for this amount in order to overcome serious handicaps in our technology infrastructure. Prior to this grant, we depended on five computers, all well past their prime. Four of them were donated machines that we had reconfigured with some purchased components as well as parts salvaged from other donated machines. Our only purchased computer was six years old. All our computers suffered from crashing, failed boot-ups, network disconnects, and other daily issues that were diverting our time from our primary mission. Our hard drives were small and slow, as were our video cards, and our only DVD burner was no longer working. The microphone/headset we were using to produce our Audio News from Archaeologica program, which has a monthly audience of nearly 200,000 listeners, was a $20 item bought five years ago from Radio Shack. In the software area, we were just as limited, depending on old and borrowed software and freeware. Nearly all our office equipment was borrowed and we had no copy machine at all. Given what we had to work with, the progress we had made was truly remarkable. But all that changed in November! As I mentioned above, now we have four brand new and very fast computers. And just as powerful as the desktop units is a new Dell laptop, which I took with me on my San Diego and Virginia trips. Other new equipment already acquired are three thumb drives; $1000 worth of new audio equipment; two new video capture boards; an Apple i-Pod (80 GB); a Dell color laser printer; a new telephone system; and an HP all-in-one scanner/fax/copier/printer. Yet to be gotten is a cellular telephone. And then there’s the software. All our new computers have Windows XP Professional but soon will be upgraded to Vista. We now have Office 2007 Professional, the latest Corel WordPerfect suite, Adobe Production Studio (lots of goodies for image, video and audio production and editing), and Canopus ProCoder 2.0 (for transcoding between different media codecs). We plan still to get Adobe Acrobat Professional, WS-FTP Professional 2006 (for FTP file transfers), Norton SystemWorks (security and anti-virus), at least. We also plan to get at least one and possibly two computer desks and chairs for the office. With judicious purchasing, we are more than $3000 under budget and are considering what additional items to add to our inventory of hardware and software. As an organization so dependent on technology to pursue its mission, we are truly living a dream. With the assistance of volunteer IT Specialist Jack Hughes (see his spotlight article in this newsletter), we are busy integrating and optimizing the new acquisitions and learning how to put them to use to do our work. Already the difference in our work efficiency and capacity is quite evident to us and we think that soon it will be visible to you. And now we can turn our attention to our new top priorities in our climb up the ladder: staffing and office space.
By Rick Pettigrew The Thanksgiving turkey was barely digested when I left Eugene by car on Saturday, November 25, on my way south to meet separately with four of our partners in California. My daughter Samantha is a student at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, just north of the Oregon-California border, so I had a way-station both going and coming back. It was good I started on Saturday, because on Sunday morning a bad winter storm was blowing in and I was just able to get over Siskiyou Summit (over 4000 feet or 1200 meters) at the border before the snow began to stick. I thought the worst was behind me, but I encountered terrible downpours driving down through the Central Valley and into the Bay Area. It was “white knuckle” time! The next morning, Monday, my meeting with archaeologist Dr. Michael Shanks and others at Stanford University went remarkably well. I’m truly excited about our multicast project, in which we will webcast scheduled TAC video programming over the Internet2 network (linking many universities, major corporations and government agencies) at very high bandwidth (1 Mb and higher). This will allow us to deliver high-quality programs (eventually even HD) of one hour and greater length in a fashion much like cable TV. We expect to have this up and running by May of this year. Some of you may have noticed Bill Gates’ recent prediction that, within five years, the Internet will surpass TV as a destination for video viewers. We intend to ride that wave. My second meeting took place on Tuesday in Mountain View, very close to Stanford. There, I had a very pleasant conversation with our contact at Google Video over lunch. I was very impressed with their lunch room: it was a gourmet experience! I also saw Google nerds playing fussball in the hallway! They have an interesting culture there. They are very receptive to innovative organizations such as ours and are interested to work with us. Although the project we had been discussing with them is shelved for the present, I learned that they may be willing to promote TAC videos on the Google Video Web site on a case-by-case basis. Any promotion of that kind, as with our long-term partner Windowsmedia.com, is a big boost for TAC traffic. After my Google meeting I got on the freeway again and drove down to San Luis Obispo, where I stayed with my cousin Marilyn en route to my Santa Barbara meeting on Wednesday. The drive down to Santa Barbara from there Wednesday morning (about two hours) was quite pleasant and the weather comfortably warm (especially compared to what I had left behind in Oregon!). I wish I could give you more details about the TV producer I met there. He had contacted me to ask if we could get together either in Florida or California, and fortunately I already had planned to meet with the people at Stanford, so I agreed to meet him in Santa Barbara. We got along quite well from the start, spent four hours together, and ended up having lunch at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. The result was an agreement that ALI will assist in the development of an innovative archaeology TV series designed to be shown on PBS for general audiences. We have word that this project is moving ahead and, in the coming weeks, specific plans and tasks will come together. Both in terms of promotion and cash income, this project offers wonderful prospects for ALI. After stopping to have coffee with my niece, Alyssa, a student at UC Santa Barbara, I drove back up to San Luis Obispo to my cousin’s house to spend a second night there. Thursday was my longest driving day. I drove from San Luis Obispo northward through San Francisco to Novato in the northern Bay Area to meet our partners at Nacio Systems, hosts of our streaming media content. This was basically a courtesy meeting and our first chance to meet face-to-face after several years of an e-mail and telephone relationship. I was met very warmly and given a tour of their impressive facility with its hundreds of computer servers (including ours, which looks just like all the others) stacked in vast rooms with huge fans and cables dangling everywhere. They also have a control room for their technical support staff that looks like something from Cape Canaveral! Nacio has been providing no-cost media hosting (that is, our video and audio program files are served up from their location) in exchange for promotion (their banner) on the TAC Home Page. In our meeting, the Nacio Director of Operations agreed to give us 20 times our existing storage space, which removes any foreseeable technical limit to our expansion of programming, both in terms of quantity and bandwidth. Buoyed by this series of very productive meetings, I continued my long day of driving (about 10 hours on the road altogether), northward from Novato through the Central Valley to Ashland, where Samantha served me a warm meal and I got a good night’s sleep. Friday morning I finished the journey back to Eugene, exhausted and yet energized, after six days and 2000 miles on the road. That’s quite an investment of time and resources, but the outcome should be well worth it. Photo: Trip route from Eugene (A), with stops in Ashland (B), Palo Alto (C), San Luis Obispo (D), Santa Barbara (E), and Novato (F)
By Doug Coffman, ALI Administrative Assistant Talk about “roots”! We enter AD 2007 at full-throttle, buoyed by the notion that, somewhere under an acacia tree on the hard-baked sediments of northern Kenya’s Lake Turkana Basin, Louise Leakey is dusting off hominid fossils and readying the keynote address for her May 1 appearance at the opening of this year’s TAC Festival in Eugene, Oregon. Reflecting on Louise’s notoriety and the interest it will create, we look forward now to our best-ever Festival event. Celebrity attracts, of course, and we are pleased to host yet another distinguished visitor: The Executive Editor of Archaeology Magazine, Mark Rose, will attend all the way from New York to produce a feature article on TAC Festival for the magazine. To say the least, all of us here at Archaeological Legacy Institute are excited about the prospects for this year’s event, as we anticipate the arrival of these, and other, illustrious guests But there is much more to staging an international film festival than celebrity appearances–namely, the films themselves. In our last TAC Newsletter we discussed Dr. Leakey’s upcoming visit and told you about the growing list of film submissions arriving from around the world. Those films are now in–all 86 of them from 23 different countries including the USA. Each has been carefully viewed and scored by objective criteria to rate the quality of its production, content and message. Despite some difficult choices, this year’s Festival program is now set, and our Director says that the quality of these 21 films is the highest he has seen. The remaining entries will also be listed and described in the Festival Program, and made available for individual viewing at the Festival’s Video Bar. Coordination and promotion of TAC Festival 2007 is now underway. In addition to the fine slate of films this year, we are also excited to tell you about the associated events and activities which will enhance this year’s theatre presentations. Besides the Video Bar, planning is underway for our annual Symposium on Heritage Film, a field trip to a nearby rock shelter site containing ancient rock art, a Native American storytelling session, a mock archaeological dig, and several other events. We will tell you more about these events, and other visiting dignitaries, in the next issue of the Newsletter. In related news, our traveling mini-festival— ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2006—is well underway, taking the top eight films from Festival 2006 on the road statewide in Oregon. In the latter half of last year, ArchaeologyFest hosted appearances in Eugene, Portland, and the coastal town of Newport, while in January 2007 we visited the campus of Southern Oregon University, in Ashland, for four evening showings there. This mobile event concludes in June, with a scheduled appearance in LaGrande in the eastern part of our state. Although, admittedly, the logistics of producing ArchaeologyFest are challenging, we remain committed to the project as a way of sharing the wealth of TAC Festival films more widely. But back to the main Festival. All is in readiness. The film program is the very best that our producers and the latest technology can provide. Each glorious film will appear on the big screen at the main Festival venue—Eugene’s grandest, most historic performing arts palace, The McDonald Theatre. And there’s nothing quite like the comfort and ambience of settling back into the seats of a beautifully-redecorated Vaudeville-era theatre, is there? Considering the superb quality of the films, we truly hope that you can join us for what promises to be a most enjoyable and informative Festival week. Come see what’s happening in the colorful world of heritage film, hear Dr. Leakey speak, and find out what’s new in the search for humanity’s deepest roots: our African origins. Photo: Stonehenge, from “Secrets of Stonehenge Revealed”
By Barry Price, Applied Earthworks Vice President and Western Division Manager From the majestic Sierra Nevada to the wind-swept Pacific Coast to the picturesque Mojave Desert, and up-and-down the great Central Valley, Applied EarthWorks, Inc. (Æ) works in every corner of California (and throughout the western U.S.) to help preserve and increase public appreciation of our nation’s rich cultural and natural heritage. Since 1995, Æ has helped our clients meet their obligations under state and federal laws governing cultural resources. Understanding of our nation’s rich history has grown together with the need to preserve what remains of these national treasures. Æ specializes in history, archaeology and historic preservation. Our studies often encompass a range of other disciplines that contribute to our knowledge of the past, such as paleontology, geology, architecture, art history, and materials science. We work closely with Native American tribal organizations; state offices of historic preservation; land-management agencies; federal, state and local governments; and project developers As an example, Æ recently completed work near Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in San Luis Obispo, California (see photo). In support of a joint development by the City and private interests, Æ uncovered Chumash Indian remains, Mission Period deposits, and the late 19th century remains of the city’s “red light district.” Prior to fieldwork, detailed historical research identified businesses that occupied the site, including several brothels or “female boarding houses,” as they were often called. Combining historical and archaeological data, Æ traced the development history of the block, examined Chumash adaptations to mission life and pieced together a picture of an oft-ignored aspect of late 19th century life. An important facet of our work was public outreach. We prepared interpretive and educational materials on local history, archaeology and historic preservation for the general public; provided on-site lectures and tours of the excavation in progress for tourists and local residents; offered public lectures through the local archaeological society, historical society, and museum; and worked closely with representatives of Chumash and other descendant communities. Photo: Applied Earthworks conducts urban archaeology in San Luis Obispo
Hello, my name is Jack Hughes. I was born in Oakridge, Oregon, and moved to nearby Pleasant Hill when I was one-and-one-half years old. I had the good fortune to grow up in Pleasant Hill in the ‘60s and graduated Pleasant Hill High School in 1972. My parents lived on family farms in Murphy and Haysville, North Carolina. They moved to Oregon after WWII. I don’t have the entire family lineage, but I have learned that the first American from the Hughes side was John Hughes, who settled in North Carolina after fighting in the Revolutionary War. I feel very fortunate to have been raised in Pleasant Hill. I am sure my view of the world would be considerably different if my parents had stayed on the family farm and I had been born there. After high school, I held several jobs before settling into work as an import auto mechanic. After purchasing my first home PC (emboldened by my experience as a mechanic), I didn’t hesitate to dive right in and repair or replace hardware and software on my home computers. I found a great deal of pleasure in solving computer hardware and software problems. So in 2003, while between jobs, I made the decision to return to school. In 2005, I received an Associate of Applied Science degree in Computer Network Operations from Lane Community College. In the past, my hobbies have included weight training, ATV riding, and downhill skiing. Over the last ten years my time has increasingly been spent in front of a computer monitor solving problems. Computers have become my job, my entertainment and my passion. I began volunteering at ALI as a network/tech support person in April 2006. Initially, I scavenged the carcasses of the dinosaur computers in the attic for useable parts and searched the Internet for drivers to run outdated, mismatched equipment and software. Last fall, ALI received a grant to replace its ancient office equipment and I had the pleasure of installing much-needed computers, printers, scanners, and software. With the new, faster equipment, production has increased and aggravation is now at a minimum. I volunteer at ALI because I enjoy helping the people, but I also feel ALI provides an important service to the world. The Internet allows us access to information world-wide, 24/7, but it requires people to make high quality, meaningful information available. The information presented at The Archaeology Channel is entertaining as well as informative Photo: Jack Hughes in his natural habitat (in the ALI office in front of a computer)
By Kiera Tara O’Brien, Volunteer Correspondent Five years after the fall of the Taliban-led Afghan government, Bamiyan locals search through piles of broken rubble for fragments of the famous giant Buddhas that once adorned their valley. Paid $5 a day by funds from a United Nations project dedicated to conserving the site, many Bamiyan residents are hopeful that planned reconstruction of at least one of the Buddhas will revive a once booming tourist industry in this poverty-stricken district. Buddhism arrived in central Afghanistan over two thousand years ago. Carved into a sandstone cliff at Bamiyan, the two colossal statues themselves survived 1,500 years of social, religious and political changes, including the destructive invasion of Genghis Khan in the 13th century. In March of 2001, when fundamentalist Islamic leaders deemed them the idolatrous “gods of infidels,” Taliban functionaries used explosives and tank shells to dislodge them from their cliff-side alcoves. In 2003, the United Nations listed the Bamiyan Buddhas as a World Heritage Site and UNESCO has since overseen teams of conservationists attempting to stabilize what remains of the statues. Among the items recovered by locals and archaeologists are nearly 90 tons of carved stone, a number of well-preserved wooden pegs and rope used to secure the statues’ surface plaster, chunks of painted façade and a reliquary containing three clay beads, a leaf, clay seals and Buddhist texts written on strips of bark. These materials may have been placed inside the chest of the largest Buddha. Efforts to collect and catalog the stone fragments— some the size of a fist and others as large as boulders—are part of an extensive plan to reconstruct the Buddhas by 2009. Experts believe this may cost as much as 50 million USD per statue. Yet any reconstruction must be carefully planned. UNESCO has warned that Bamiyan’s World Heritage status could be revoked if there is too much new construction added during reassembly. Anastylosis, an approach used to restore many Greek and Roman temples with a minimum of added modern materials, is one suggestion supported by UNESCO policies. Furthermore, the enormous price tag of any plan is also an ethical and political consideration in a country with staggering poverty rates. In Afghanistan, a large percentage of the population is in dire need of food and medical aid. This looming roadblock, however, has not deterred Bamiyan’s provincial governor, Afghani officials or UNESCO from exploring further options for rebuilding the Buddhas. The government recently approved inquiries into a proposal by Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to design a lights, laser and sound show that would project images of the Buddhas on Bamiyan’s cliff walls. At a price of 64 million USD, this option may be more costly than conventional reconstruction plans, but it comes with concrete and immediate benefits for local residents, many of whom are living in caves without access to water or electricity. The system would be powered by hundreds of windmills and solar panels that would also supply electricity to surrounding communities to support the development of local infrastructure. Though, at the moment, attention is focused on conservation efforts, experts are also taking advantage of growing interest in the area to uncover additional sites. A stupa has been unearthed in survey work and at least two teams of archaeologists are on the hunt for the foundations of a third colossal, reclining Buddha thought to be located somewhere between the two standing statues. The Chinese monk Xuan Zang made written reference to a third Buddha on a visit to Bamiyan in 632. Recently discovered citadel walls may be part of a palace complex that Xuan Zang said was connected with a 1000-foot-long reclining Buddha. The final plan for reconstruction should be announced within a year as the Afghan government finishes its analysis of the various proposals. In light of recent finds in the region, Yamagata’s design carries the greatest clout at the moment. However, another matter continues to spark debate: what to do with the mountains of recovered stone. If the rubble is to remain in the area as the provincial governor, UNESCO and a majority in the Afghan government prefer, then funds will be channeled into either a research storage center or a public museum. Due to the sheer volume of material, it is questionable whether much of it will ever again be displayed to the public Photo: One of the giant Buddhas at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, which were later destroyed by the Taliban. Photo taken in 1977. (courtesy Sevres-Babylone; from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ sevres-babylone/354620865/).
By John Loomis, CyArk Director of Communications and Development The world is losing its architectural and archaeological cultural heritage faster than it can be documented. Moreover, this crisis threatens to reach epic proportions in our own lifetimes if not addressed. Unlike cultural artifacts safely housed in museums, cultural heritage sites are fragile, exposed to the elements, and subject to degradation due to acts of nature, both catastrophic and benign, and aggressions of humankind ranging from poorly managed tourism to looting and acts of war. CyArk, created in 2002 as a nonprofit project of the Kacyra Family Foundation addresses this challenge through its mission of Preserving World Heritage Sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling and other state-of-the-art technologies. CyArk brings the latest in documentation and imaging technologies to the preservation of the oldest artifacts of human culture. CyArk promotes and supports High Definition Documentation of heritage sites. High Definition Documentation (HDD) is an integrated method that utilizes advanced survey and imaging technologies which include laser scanning, GPS, high dynamic range photography, digital modeling, and other advanced spatial technologies. A 3D HDD survey is dimensionally precise to 0.5 cm and provides the soundest foundation record for cultural resource management. The HDD dataset can be developed for a number of conservation purposes such as condition assessment and structural analysis. HDD delivers visually rich 2D and 3D digital images that, when combined with advanced imaging and animation processes, become visually rich resources for education. In cases where the cultural heritage site is so endangered that it is disappearing or faces destruction, HDD is the only way to preserve it for history. Equal to the urgent need for accurate documentation of the world’s important heritage sites is the need for a safe and accessible repository in which to store these data. This is the second part of the CyArk mission: providing a secure, open-access, internet archive of HDD data and related media – the CyArk 3D World Heritage Archive website. CyArk’s use of collected data is non-commercial and non-profit and CyArk respects the confidentiality and intellectual property requirements of each heritage site authority. For the cultural heritage site authority, the CyArk 3D Heritage Archive safely stores and maintains the heritage site data. This is the foundation record for each site’s cultural resource management plan. The archived data are a valuable resource for the site’s historic preservation professionals: site managers, archaeologists, conservators, architects, and engineers. For the public, this internet archive is a resource of immense educational value, serving scholars and students from university through K-12 as well as a general audience interested in world heritage. The CyArk 3D Heritage Archive is a powerful and intuitive system for accessing core point cloud data and a robust suite of data derivatives and associated media. Users browse an interactive map for each of the heritage sites and explore the collection of information within. CyArk leverages its own expertise through an international group of partners that include heritage site organizations, universities and the private sector. CyArk is currently expanding both its partner base and its project base. The goal is to add several hundred endangered cultural heritage sites to the archive over the next three years. Because CyArk is a nonprofit, and because its partners are committed to preservation, CyArk can achieve significant economies on heritage documentation projects where resources are typically scarce. A large gap often exists between heritage documentation budgets and commercial fees. CyArk works to close that gap. Editor’s Note: On TAC we will soon webcast CyArk’s introductory video about its mission and activities, but as a TAC Newsletter subscriber you can see it now via the links below: Photo: Tikal, Temple 1, 3D laser scan point cloud model with bounding box (courtesy of CyArk)
Please let us know what you think of the newsletter. We welcome any suggestions for improvement. Contact us at: info@archaeologychannel.org
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |