Comments on: Archaeology in Second Life http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/ Archaeology in a Digital World Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:26:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16555 admin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:17:20 +0000 http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/#comment-16555 Hi Shawn, Thanks for stopping by! Checking out your link led to a good half an hour of online meanderings after I read some of the other posts on your blog. This archaeology in Second Life thing is obviously far more established than I realised, and I am really impressed with what I've seen so far. Time to get exploring in there myself I think... I also appreciated the link to the history of archaeological blogging article- very interesting reading (and of course lots of blogs to add to my reading list!) Cheers Jo Hi Shawn,
Thanks for stopping by! Checking out your link led to a good half an hour of online meanderings after I read some of the other posts on your blog. This archaeology in Second Life thing is obviously far more established than I realised, and I am really impressed with what I’ve seen so far. Time to get exploring in there myself I think… I also appreciated the link to the history of archaeological blogging article- very interesting reading (and of course lots of blogs to add to my reading list!)

Cheers

Jo

]]> By: Digging Digitally » More on Second Life, Web services http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16522 Digging Digitally » More on Second Life, Web services Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:37:59 +0000 http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/#comment-16522 [...] archaeology. It seems to have had some resonance with other archaeo-bloggers (see ClioAudio, and ArchaeoGeek). ArchaeoGeek noted some fascinating work attempting to link GIS-type capabilities in Second Life. [...] [...] archaeology. It seems to have had some resonance with other archaeo-bloggers (see ClioAudio, and ArchaeoGeek). ArchaeoGeek noted some fascinating work attempting to link GIS-type capabilities in Second Life. [...]

]]> By: Shawn http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16520 Shawn Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:12:40 +0000 http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2008/01/14/archaeology-in-second-life/#comment-16520 Hi - if you read the discussion at electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2007/06/archaeological-clutter-dumpster-diving we touched on some ideas about landscape, archaeology, and second life... But i take your point about landscape. However, what I'm trying to do at the moment is not recreate an excavation from the real world, divorced from its landscape, but a simple, artificial excavation as you might find at an open day at a museum. But since I can create the world (or at least, our little corner of it) I am also trying to make it fit into the landscape that we are in the process of creating (I've been building and wrecking structures all week to see what happens... :) Oh, btw check out what the Berkeley people did for Catalhoyuk on Okapi Island in SL as another example of an archaeological approach... Hi – if you read the discussion at electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2007/06/archaeological-clutter-dumpster-diving
we touched on some ideas about landscape, archaeology, and second life…

But i take your point about landscape. However, what I’m trying to do at the moment is not recreate an excavation from the real world, divorced from its landscape, but a simple, artificial excavation as you might find at an open day at a museum. But since I can create the world (or at least, our little corner of it) I am also trying to make it fit into the landscape that we are in the process of creating (I’ve been building and wrecking structures all week to see what happens… :) Oh, btw check out what the Berkeley people did for Catalhoyuk on Okapi Island in SL as another example of an archaeological approach…

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