Digital Bioarchaeology
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anthropology; bioarchaeology; paleopathology
Interests: archaeology; Bronze Age; GIS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to publish an article on 3D virtualization in the field of bioarcheology. In Cultural Heritage, the use of 3D virtualization is recurrent, especially for valorization. However, the state of research methodology is still at the beginning, especially in the field of bioarcheology. Research related to 3D point clouds and 3D models of animal and human bones from forensic or recent (whose biological data are known) subjects is often missing.
This Special Issue aims to collect and compare the main lines of use and research of 3D virtualization in bioarcheology specifically addressing the issues, techniques, and instruments that can be used to create virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, simulated reality, and computer vision. Regarding bioarcheology, we refer in particular to human and animal osteology both during analyses and during archaeological excavations.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- 3D virtualization with imaging diagnosis in osteology;
- New methods to analyse 3D point clouds and 3D models in osteology;
- New data sources applied to 3D virtualization;
- 3D virtualization with low cost (under 3000 €) devices;
- Innovative applications to use VR, AR, MR, simulated reality in osteology;
- Computer vision in osteology.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Alessandra Mazzucchi
Dr. Cristiano Putzolu
Dr. Marta Licata
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- osteology
- archaeozoology
- anthropology
- grave
- tomb
- virtual reality
- augmented reality
- mixed reality
- simulated reality
- computer vision
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