3D scanning technology as a standard archaeological tool for pottery analysis: practice and theory

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1148-1168

  Karasik, Avshalom ^a   Smilansky, Uzy ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

3D pottery analysis; Automatic alignment; Automatic drawing; Rotation axis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; SOFTWARE; TOOL USE;

EID: 40749146688     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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