March 16, 2022 (12:00 ET)
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Fredrik Hardtke
(Macquarie University, Australia)
Title: The use of legacy data for rock art research
Abstract:
A large number of archives exist around the world, of archaeological data collected over decades and even centuries, captured at times where landscapes were markedly different and archaeological remains less disturbed. This “legacy data” comprises material and records that have been assembled over decades, sometimes centuries, by travellers and researchers often by means and for purposes long since outdated. The field of rock art research, similarly, looks to archives of rock art recorded before disturbance of the art itself through the impact of natural or deliberately destructive forces. Research in Egypt has a long history of archaeological research, which has left behind a vast corpus of legacy data. Egyptian rock art was also noted by Egyptologists from the 19th century, including such notables as Flinders Petrie, with the first dedicated research missions led by Leo Frobenius in the 1920s and H.A Winkler in the 1930s. While subsequent missions in recent times continue to amass data, it is those from the early last century which have particular interest since the legacy data accumulated is from an Egypt far different to the one today, due to landscape modification and destruction but the scientific methods employed already at this time (photography, mapping etc) enable the integration of the data within a modern context. This talk will focus on a particular Egyptian site and will discuss how legacy data can be reused, improved upon, integrated and re-interpreted.
Bio:
Dr. Hardtke is an honorary research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. He has over 20 years of fieldwork experience in archaeology, including excavation, survey, satellite remote sensing, ceramics and lithics processing, photogrammetry and various related techniques. He has conducted archaeological excavation at sites from Prehistoric to Roman periods in Egypt. Since 2019, Frederick has directed the Belgian-Australian archaeological mission to El Hosh, Egypt – a vast site with prolific rock art remains ranging from Palaeolithic times to modern. The project aims to use the most modern, sophisticated capture techniques available to record the petroglyphs as the site is under threat. Thus, 3D capture of the motifs and their context is a priority.
Registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mmh8IMX5Rbq7oi4cTYZzjA
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F_wlxWeinC0ShzR–9gwPI6y80ds6KsB/view?usp=sharing