{"id":16364,"date":"2016-10-25T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.sites.unc.edu\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:29:30","slug":"centuries-old-meets-high-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=16364","title":{"rendered":"Centuries old meets high tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Centuries old meets high tech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ygt4K6y5QgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Archaeology is often associated with objects that are hundreds of years old \u2014 and older. But a new technique being used by Carolina researchers is bringing the field firmly into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Research Laboratories of Archaeology, part of the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">College of Arts and Sciences, is one of only a few university programs\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">in the United States to use 3-D imaging to showcase artifacts in its\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">collection. With support from a C. Felix Harvey Award and the Kenan\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Creative Collaboratory, its researchers and students are building a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cvirtual museum\u201d of North Carolina archaeology that is scheduled to go\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">live in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Undergraduate students have been trained to take digital photographs of each object from dozens of angles, then run them through special software that combines the images into a 3-D model. The finished model is then uploaded to the web, allowing viewers to move the object around on-screen and study it nearly as closely as they could if they were viewing it in real life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s actually, in a way, much more engaging to be able to move the object around on the screen, to be able zoom in, zoom out, as compared to having it in an exhibit case behind glass,\u201d said Vin Steponaitis, professor of anthropology and archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Researchers have uploaded more than 300 3-D models so far and hope to expand the effort in the future, allowing the public full virtual access to artifacts through their smartphones or computers. To view the collection, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sketchfab.com\/RLA-archaeology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/sketchfab.com\/RLA-archaeology<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Video by Rob Holliday, UNC Office of Communications and Public Affairs<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeology is often associated with objects that are hundreds of years old \u2014 and older. But a new technique being used by Carolina researchers is bringing the field firmly into the 21st century. UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Research Laboratories of Archaeology, part of the\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences, is one of only a few university programs\u00a0in the 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