The latest research carried out in Grotta del Romito, a Palaeolithic site located in northern Calabria, has brought to light a new Palaeolithic burial (Romito 9). The complexity of this archaeological evidence, also affected by a disturbance to the burial pit that altered the deposition’s context ab antiquo, has required a suitable strategy of excavation and documentation for the funerary context in order to read the taphonomic and post-depositional processes. The creation of a visual model representing the funerary evidence in a CAD environment has led to the virtual reproduction of the original archaeological context. This model, based on the processing of a very detailed graphic and photogrammetric documentation and linked to a database, provided an effective support to the interpretations and has allowed us to better investigate the deposition context and the subsequent events connected to the breach of the burial.
Ortisi, F.E., Lo Vetro, D., Pizziolo, G., De Silva, M., Striuli, C., Fabbri, P.F., et al. (2016). A new Palaeolithic burial from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Italy). A digital restitution. In CAA2015 : keep the revolution going : proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and quantitative methods in archaeology (pp.715-722). Archaeopress Archaeology.
A new Palaeolithic burial from Grotta del Romito (Calabria, Italy). A digital restitution
Pizziolo G.;
2016-01-01
Abstract
The latest research carried out in Grotta del Romito, a Palaeolithic site located in northern Calabria, has brought to light a new Palaeolithic burial (Romito 9). The complexity of this archaeological evidence, also affected by a disturbance to the burial pit that altered the deposition’s context ab antiquo, has required a suitable strategy of excavation and documentation for the funerary context in order to read the taphonomic and post-depositional processes. The creation of a visual model representing the funerary evidence in a CAD environment has led to the virtual reproduction of the original archaeological context. This model, based on the processing of a very detailed graphic and photogrammetric documentation and linked to a database, provided an effective support to the interpretations and has allowed us to better investigate the deposition context and the subsequent events connected to the breach of the burial.
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