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TOMSK, Dec 21 – RIA Tomsk, Karina
Sapunova. Scientists of the laboratory "Artefakt" of Tomsk State University (TSU) plan to publish in the Internet archive with three-dimensional
images of excavation of the Timiryazevo burial ground – the largest of the West
Siberian burials relating to the early Middle Ages by 2018, the Head of the
Laboratory Olga Zaytseva reported to RIA Tomsk.
Earlier it was reported that the TSU
laboratory "Artefact" is one of the first in Russia which began to
use three-dimensional technologies for archeology. The main directions of its
work are scanning of monuments of archeology by means of unmanned aerial
vehicles and creation of three-dimensional models of archeological finds and
museum pieces.
"The digital archive of
excavation of the Timiryazevo burial ground is created (it is located near
Tomsk – editor's note). It is the first monument in Russia to which 3D-fixing
was applied at all stages since removal of the turf. I think, it will be
completely downloaded (in the Internet) by the end of 2017", – Zaytseva
told.
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She specified that the Timiryazevo
burial ground is the largest of the similar objects in Western Siberia dated by
the early Middle Ages. "It is huge – more than 600 barrows. One 50th part
is maybe investigated at the moment", – the interlocutor of the agency
noted.
According to her, digital
technologies allowed to imprint precisely one of burial ground fragments that
will allow the scientists who wasn't participating in excavation to obtain
objective information on the object. Besides, similar three-dimensional models
can be used in museum expositions.
"There was an exhibition on
this burial ground, and stereovisualization was used there – the person could
"visit" excavation, the effect of immersion was provided. <…>
It is important for the West Siberian archeology. Many people consider that
archeology monuments are always stones as Stonehenge or pyramids. And we have
everything in the earth, and it is opened only at the time of excavation,
remaining unknown for people", – Zaytseva added.