Dario Calderone, Davide Tanasi, Enrico Greco, Stephan Hassam, Madeleine Kraft
This paper addresses the challenges of documenting fragile prehistoric artefacts from three Sicilian museums, the Arturo Petix Civic Museum in Milena, the Civic Museum of Aidone, and the Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum in Syracuse, through advanced 3D digitization techniques. Due to their delicate, fragmented nature and complex material properties, traditional documentation methods are often inadequate. Employing terrestrial photogrammetry and structured light scanning (NextEngine, Faro ScanArm, and Artec Leo), researchers successfully digitized 38 artefacts. This initiative significantly...
TC26 MetroArcheo Conference 2025
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.145
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Simone Pio Barbagallo, Filippo Stanco, Davide Tanasi
This paper explores the application of 3D digital modeling in prehistoric archaeology through three Mediterranean case studies: Haghia Triada (Crete), Borg in-Nadur (Malta), and Polizzello (Sicily). It demonstrates how archaeologist-led virtual reconstructions go beyond visualization, functioning as interpretive tools for understanding spatial organization, ritual practice, and architectural development. The paper contrasts this approach with AI-generated modeling, highlighting the limitations of automated reconstructions in capturing the interpretive nuance essential to archaeological...
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Davide Zecca, Irene Muci, Francesco Valentino Taurino, Mohamed Ali Jaziri, Alberto Bucciero
The care of tangible heritage is a relevant aspect in the field of cultural heritage (CH). New systems have been developed to monitor and protect cultural assets such as buildings, monuments, archaeological sites and artifacts preserved in museums. IoT technologies play a key role in the design and implementation of CH monitoring services. This paper proposes the design of the workflow for the planning of a Monitoring Project (MP) in the context of the implementation of a software platform called SENNSE (Spatial hEritage scieNce oNline Sensor Environment) based on IoT technologies, which...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.143
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Luisa Caneve, Valeria Spizzichino, Massimiliano Guarneri, Federico Angelini, Roberto Chirico, Elena De Panfilis, Speranza Falciano
Technical-scientific activities have been developed by ENEA, in the frame of the PNRR CHANGES-Cultural Heritage Innovation for Next-Gen Sustainable Society-project, aimed at the diagnostic-cognitive analysis of the Camponeschi Monument in the Basilica of San Giuseppe Artigiano in L'Aquila. As a product of late Gothic eclecticism, this Monument holds particular significance due to the controversies surrounding its attribution and the complexity of its relief surfaces. The measurement campaign was conducted by applying a multi-technique integrated approach. Following the indication of the...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.142
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Chaturvedula S. Sastri, Thierry Sauvage, Olivier Wendling, Aurélien Bellamy, William Hate, Paul Sigot, Frédéric Foucher, Christian Humburg
Charged Particle Activation is a nuclear technique used in material science for analysis, and as an essential technique in the production of radioisotopes in nuclear medicine. It is less known in archaeology. After a systematic study, we have found that proton and deuteron activations offer some unique analytical possibilities, unknown to other methods, in archaeology. With its extremely high sensitivity for some elements like Ca, Ti, Fe, Sr and Sb, proton activation can be very useful in developing new markers for provenance studies (eg: Fe and Ti, in knowing the origin of sand used by...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.141
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Filomena Papaleo, Simone Giosuè Madeo
This paper presents a comparative analysis between traditional archaeological landscape interpretation and outputs derived from artificial intelligence and multispectral remote sensing. The study focuses on the middle Tanagro Valley, where NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin (SCP) for QGIS were applied to satellite and drone imagery to detect cropmarks and soilmarks indicative of buried structures. These results were compared with expert archaeological interpretations based on photointerpretation and historical data. The objective is to...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.140
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Michael Ytterberg
This paper presents the first comprehensive restored overall plan of Hadrian’s Villa in the 21st century. It is based on the best available plan for all known structures. No other published plan includes them all, not even the last such comprehensive plans, published as long ago as the 1980’s by Salza Prina Ricotti.[1] “La pianta del centenario” of 2006, for all its good points, was a disappointment in this regard.[2] For the current proposed plan over 300 plans of individual structures, as well as the overall site, have been examined for the approximately 70 structures and gardens of the...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.139
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Maisa Almeida, Marcela Noronha, Marcio Fabricio, Alfonso Ippolito
The growing interest in art history, architecture, and urban history, combined with international initiatives promoting cultural heritage digitization, has underscored the importance of digital platforms for documenting and managing built heritage. This paper presents a systematic literature mapping of recent scientific production on digital tools applied to architectural heritage. Through a review of methodological approaches, the study highlights key trends such as metadata-based modeling, semantic data integration, and real-time systems. Results reveal the application of advanced...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.138
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Fernando Birello de Lima, Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli, Amanda Kirchesch Castrillon Mendes, Luciana Pelaes Mascaro
The article presents experiments in inventorying cultural heritage carried out in Cuiabá (Largo do Rosário) and Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade (ruins of the Igreja Matriz) for the author’s doctoral thesis. It integrates Deleuze’s concept of simulacrum with the procedural concept of As-Becoming, linked to the ideas of Becoming and the Archaeology of the Future. As-Becoming complements the As-Built, As-Is, and As-Designed methodologies by addressing data gaps and enabling prospective readings of future memories. The study updates and expands the As-Is model of Largo do Rosário using...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.137
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Lara De Giorgi, Dora Francesca Barbolla, Giovanni Leucci
As part of the Pandosia Anglona Project, of which the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (CNR) is a partner, geophysical investigations were carried out with the aim to identifying structures of archaeological interest. The investigation area is located on the right of the road that connects Policoro with Tursi, on the top of a hill 262 m a.s.l. The Anglona hill dominates the lower valley of the Agri and Sinni rivers rising in the middle of the hilly system that divides the two rivers, at almost equal distance between these two streams. Geophysical investigation method geoelectrics was...
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· 10.21014/tc26-2025.136
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