3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study of the Han Dynasty Site at Wuzhaishan

Wuzhaishan, a second-century family cemetery site in Shandong Province, was the first site in China to be excavated by amateur antiquarian archaeologists in 1786, a few decades after similar excavations began at Pompeii. Excavations continued in the twentieth century by European, Japanese, and Chinese archaeologists. My approach has been to analyze finds from these excavations in the light of comparative research on similar sites elsewhere in China, to create an interactive 3D reconstruction of the entire cemetery complex.
Anthony Barbieri-Low is currently Assistant Professor of History at UCSB (faculty webpage, personal research website). He received an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton in 2001. His most recent book is a study of the social and economic conditions of artisans in early China, Artisans in Early Imperial China. He is currently researching early law and society of ancient China, based on excavated legal texts.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG.

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