Virtual Reality in Archaeology [Paperback]

This volume is and accompanying volume to CAA 98 volume (BAR S757). The papers were originally presented at the Festival of Virtual Reality in Archaeology which took place simultaneously to the twenty-sixth annual CAA conference in Barcelona. Contents include: PRESENTATION By Nick Ryan; THE DIVERSITY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIRTUAL WORLDS By Juan A. Barcel??, Maurizio Forte and Donald H. Sanders; VISUALIZING WHAT MIGHT BE: AN INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY by Juan A. Barcel??; ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS USING VIRTUAL REALITY: CASE STUDIES AND CAVEATS by Donald H. Sanders; REALISM VS. REALITY: CREATING VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE by John Kantner; NATIVE AMERICAN VIRTUAL REALITY ARCHAEOLOGY: AN ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE by Dennis R. Holloway; PLANS, ELEVATIONS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR THE ROUTINE CONSTRUCTION OF HYPERREAL SIMULATIONS by Mark Gillings; ACQUISITION OF DETAILED MODELS FOR VIRTUAL REALITY by M. Pollefeys, M. Proesmans, R. Koch, M. Vergauwen and L. Van Gool; 3D FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIES USING SPIRAL CT DATA SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION AND TEXTURE APPLICATION by Giuseppe Attardi, Marilina Betr??, Maurizio Forte, Roberto Gori, Silvano Imboden, Francesco Mallegni;VISUALISATION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: THE PROBLEM OF ILLUMINATION by Genevi??ve Lucet; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUES IN A PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT: THE CASE STUDY OF A HORSE GRAVE by R. De Nicola, A. Giordano, S. Guarino, B. Genito, S. Laurenza; PRE-RENDERING ACOUSTICS AND ILLUMINATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS by Jackson Pope and Alan Chalmers; COMPUTER SIMULATION OF STONEHENGE by Em??lia P??sztor, ??kos Juh??sz, Mikl??s Dombi, Curt Roslund; VIRTUAL REALITY AT THE NEOLITHIC MONUMENT COMPLEX OF THORNBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE by Glyn Goodrick and Jan Harding, FORM AND FABRIC, THE REAL AND THE VIRTUAL: ROMAN ECONOMY-RELATED GEOMETRICAL MAlC=