eprintid: 537
rev_number: 3
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datestamp: 2010-04-14 09:59:30
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type: bookPart
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creators_name: Levy, Richard
creators_name: Dawson, Peter
title: Structural analysis: a tool for testing 3D computer reconstructions of Thule whalebone houses
ispublished: pub
subjects: 930
divisions: 209
cterms_swd: Archäologie
cterms_swd: Informatik
cterms_swd: Computerunterstütztes Verfahren
cterms_swd: Computervisualistik
cterms_swd: Haus
cterms_swd: Eskimo
abstract: One criticism of computer modeling in archaeology is that the visual products suggest a higher degree of knowledge of the structure or site than the data warrant, and that they represent only one of several possible outcomes. This paper discusses the benefits of structural analysis as a means of testing 3D computer reconstructions based on limited archaeological data. Thule Inuit whalebone houses will be used as case studies for testing structural behavior. The Thule people are the cultural and biological ancestors of contemporary Inuit societies of the North American arctic. Thule culture developed in the Bering Strait region, and its presence in the Canadian Arctic was established via migration by AD 1300 (Mathiassen 1927; McCullough 1989). The use of whalebone as a construction material by Thule families, in part, represents an adaptation to life in driftwood-poor regions of the Arctic Archipelago (Mathiassen 1927). Structural analysis led us to consider the premise that certain bones, because of their lower strength as structural elements, must have been selected primarily for their ceremonial value in the design of these unique structures.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2008
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000537
portal_cluster_id: p-caa2007
portal_order: 0037
ppn_swb: 140046613X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5372
language: eng
bibsort: LEVYRICHARSTRUCTURAL2008
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: A. Posluschny ; K. Lambers ; I. Herzog
pagerange: 134-139
book_title: Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April, 2007 (Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10)
themen: T930
oa_type: green
faecher: FVFG
citation:   Levy, Richard ; Dawson, Peter  (2008) Structural analysis: a tool for testing 3D computer reconstructions of Thule whalebone houses.   In:   Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April, 2007 (Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10).   A. Posluschny ; K. Lambers ; I. Herzog 2008, pp. 134-139        
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/537/1/04_06_levy_et_al_thule.pdf