Rachel Opitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 199579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Opitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Opitz |
| SIGNATURE | OPITZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5232-1434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Semantic Modelling of Archaeological Excavation Data. A review of the current state of the art and a roadmap of activities
Archaeological data repositories usually manage excavation data collections as project-level entities with restricted capacities to facilitate search or aggregation of excavation data at the sub-collection level (trenches, finds, season reports or excavation diaries etc.). More granular access to excavation data collections would enable layered querying across their informational content. In the past decade, several attempts to adapt CIDOC CRM in…
Remote Sensing Data to Support Integrated Decision Making in Cultural and Natural Heritage Management. Impasses and opportunities for collaboration in agricultural areas
Remote and near surface sensing data are widely used in archaeology and heritage management for feature discovery, change detection and monitoring, as an input to predictive modelling, and in the planning process. While global and regional datasets are widely used for some purposes, data are regularly acquired specifically for archaeological projects because of the very high spatial resolution required for feature detection and assessments of arc…
Reimagining urban success: Rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC-AD 600
The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 ye…
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018
Excavations carried out at the Latin city of Gabii between 2012 and 2018 have contributed new data to a number of debates around the emergence, lived experience, maintenance, decline, and resilience of cities. Gabii’s urban trajectories demonstrate both seemingly familiar forms of urbanism and, on closer study, many locally circumscribed elements. Specifically, the Gabii Project excavations have uncovered an early Iron Age (8th–5th centuries b.c.…
Developing Fair Ontological Pathways: Linking Evidence of Movement in Lidar to Models of Human Behaviour
This paper proposes an ontological approach to connect the archaeological topographic evidence for movement in the landscape which can be derived from interpretation and spatial analysis of airborne lidar data with models of movement derived from modeling exercises such as Agent Based Modelling or Cost Path Modelling. This computational ontology enables the investigation of movement and its topographic manifestations in the landscape at various s…
Country Roads: Travel, Visibility, and Late Classic Settlement in the Southern Maya Mountains
Mayanist archaeology has long been concerned with creating and evaluating explanatory models for the locations of ancient sites relative to one another and to the physical geography of the Maya world. This study combines epigraphic data and spatial analyses to explore motivations for settlement location and to interrogate territorial strategies in Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) kingdoms in the southern Maya Mountains, around the modern towns of Dolo…
Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing
The variety and sophistication of data sources, sensors, and platforms employed in archaeological remote sensing have increased significantly over the past decade. Projects incorporating data from UAV surveys, regional and research-driven lidar surveys, the uptake of hyperspectral imaging, the launch of high-temporal revisit satellites, the advent of multi-sensor rigs for geophysical survey, and increased use of structure from motion mean that mo…
Measuring Usewear on Black Gloss Pottery from Rome through 3D Surface Analysis
This project involves the high-resolution 3D laser scanning of a cache of Italian black gloss pottery from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Our aim is to examine in detail the minute traces of production and use of these vessels and to produce a digital record of their form. We have experimented with several scanning devices in order to determine the optimal methods for capturing abrasions on pottery and are developing digital methods for surface …
Publishing Archaeological Excavations at the Digital Turn
This paper engages with repeated calls within archaeology for a re-envisioning of the excavation report, contextualized by the transformation of scholarly communication taking place across the humanities and social sciences. This widespread transformation is rooted in a growing interest in showing data together with synthesis and argument, the importance afforded to public engagement, and the proliferation of digital platforms that enable creativ…
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
Integrated methods for understanding and monitoring the loss of coastal archaeological sites: The case of Tochni-Lakkia, south-central Cyprus
An Experiment in Using Visual Attention Metrics to Think About Experience and Design Choices in Past Places
Using Airborne LiDAR Survey to explore Historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean
This article describes what appears to be the first archaeological application of airborne LiDAR survey to historic-era landscapes in the Caribbean archipelago, on the island of Montserrat. LiDAR is proving invaluable in extending the reach of traditional pedestrian survey into less favorable areas, such as those covered by dense neotropical forest and by ashfall from the past two decades of active eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and to…
Recent Developments in High-Density Survey and Measurement (HDSM) for Archaeology: Implications for Practice and Theory
HDSM, high-density survey and measurement, is the collective term for a range of new technologies that give us the ability to measure, record, and analyze the spatial, locational, and morphological properties of objects, sites, structures, and landscapes with higher density and more precision than ever before. This article considers HDSM technologies, including airborne lidar, real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (GNSS) survey, …
Apports des prospections non destructives à la connaissance du quartier artisanal antique de l’Essarté, Epomanduodurum, commune de Mathay, Doubs
L’Essarté est un quartier antique de potiers situé sur la commune de Mathay (Doubs). Il a été fouillé dans les années 1980-90. Dans le cadre d’un PCR consacré plus généralement à l’ensemble de l’agglomération antique de Mandeure-Mathay (Epomanduodurum) et aux espaces qui l’environnent, des prospections au sol ont été menées à l’Essarté en 2006, une synthèse des fouilles basée sur la documentation existante a été faite en 2009, et des prospections…
Integrating lidar and geophysical surveys at Falerii Novi and Falerii Veteres (Viterbo)
La città romana di Falerii Novi e quella pre-romana di Falerii Veteres vengono riviste in questo articolo attraverso la combinazione di dati da ricognizione lidar ( light detection and ranging ) e geofisica. La ricognizione lidar fornisce per la prima volta infomiazioni dettagliate sui bordi topograficamente complessi di questi siti e ha permesso di identificare un certo numero di nuove strutture. Osservando tali strutture nel contesto dei dati t…
Mapping the Ager Faliscus road-system: The contribution of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) survey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Recent Developments in High-Density Survey and Measurement (HDSM) for Archaeology: Implications for Practice and Theory
HDSM, high-density survey and measurement, is the collective term for a range of new technologies that give us the ability to measure, record, and analyze the spatial, locational, and morphological properties of objects, sites, structures, and landscapes with higher density and more precision than ever before. This article considers HDSM technologies, including airborne lidar, real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (GNSS) survey, …
Publishing Archaeological Excavations at the Digital Turn
This paper engages with repeated calls within archaeology for a re-envisioning of the excavation report, contextualized by the transformation of scholarly communication taking place across the humanities and social sciences. This widespread transformation is rooted in a growing interest in showing data together with synthesis and argument, the importance afforded to public engagement, and the proliferation of digital platforms that enable creativ…
Using Airborne LiDAR Survey to explore Historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean
This article describes what appears to be the first archaeological application of airborne LiDAR survey to historic-era landscapes in the Caribbean archipelago, on the island of Montserrat. LiDAR is proving invaluable in extending the reach of traditional pedestrian survey into less favorable areas, such as those covered by dense neotropical forest and by ashfall from the past two decades of active eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and to…
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
An Experiment in Using Visual Attention Metrics to Think About Experience and Design Choices in Past Places
Integrated methods for understanding and monitoring the loss of coastal archaeological sites: The case of Tochni-Lakkia, south-central Cyprus
Mapping the Ager Faliscus road-system: The contribution of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) survey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Country Roads: Travel, Visibility, and Late Classic Settlement in the Southern Maya Mountains
Mayanist archaeology has long been concerned with creating and evaluating explanatory models for the locations of ancient sites relative to one another and to the physical geography of the Maya world. This study combines epigraphic data and spatial analyses to explore motivations for settlement location and to interrogate territorial strategies in Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) kingdoms in the southern Maya Mountains, around the modern towns of Dolo…
Integrating lidar and geophysical surveys at Falerii Novi and Falerii Veteres (Viterbo)
La città romana di Falerii Novi e quella pre-romana di Falerii Veteres vengono riviste in questo articolo attraverso la combinazione di dati da ricognizione lidar ( light detection and ranging ) e geofisica. La ricognizione lidar fornisce per la prima volta infomiazioni dettagliate sui bordi topograficamente complessi di questi siti e ha permesso di identificare un certo numero di nuove strutture. Osservando tali strutture nel contesto dei dati t…
Reimagining urban success: Rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC-AD 600
The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 ye…
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018
Excavations carried out at the Latin city of Gabii between 2012 and 2018 have contributed new data to a number of debates around the emergence, lived experience, maintenance, decline, and resilience of cities. Gabii’s urban trajectories demonstrate both seemingly familiar forms of urbanism and, on closer study, many locally circumscribed elements. Specifically, the Gabii Project excavations have uncovered an early Iron Age (8th–5th centuries b.c.…
Measuring Usewear on Black Gloss Pottery from Rome through 3D Surface Analysis
This project involves the high-resolution 3D laser scanning of a cache of Italian black gloss pottery from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Our aim is to examine in detail the minute traces of production and use of these vessels and to produce a digital record of their form. We have experimented with several scanning devices in order to determine the optimal methods for capturing abrasions on pottery and are developing digital methods for surface …
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
Mapping the Ager Faliscus road-system: The contribution of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) survey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Integrating lidar and geophysical surveys at Falerii Novi and Falerii Veteres (Viterbo)
La città romana di Falerii Novi e quella pre-romana di Falerii Veteres vengono riviste in questo articolo attraverso la combinazione di dati da ricognizione lidar ( light detection and ranging ) e geofisica. La ricognizione lidar fornisce per la prima volta infomiazioni dettagliate sui bordi topograficamente complessi di questi siti e ha permesso di identificare un certo numero di nuove strutture. Osservando tali strutture nel contesto dei dati t…
Apports des prospections non destructives à la connaissance du quartier artisanal antique de l’Essarté, Epomanduodurum, commune de Mathay, Doubs
L’Essarté est un quartier antique de potiers situé sur la commune de Mathay (Doubs). Il a été fouillé dans les années 1980-90. Dans le cadre d’un PCR consacré plus généralement à l’ensemble de l’agglomération antique de Mandeure-Mathay (Epomanduodurum) et aux espaces qui l’environnent, des prospections au sol ont été menées à l’Essarté en 2006, une synthèse des fouilles basée sur la documentation existante a été faite en 2009, et des prospections…
Using Airborne LiDAR Survey to explore Historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean
This article describes what appears to be the first archaeological application of airborne LiDAR survey to historic-era landscapes in the Caribbean archipelago, on the island of Montserrat. LiDAR is proving invaluable in extending the reach of traditional pedestrian survey into less favorable areas, such as those covered by dense neotropical forest and by ashfall from the past two decades of active eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and to…
Recent Developments in High-Density Survey and Measurement (HDSM) for Archaeology: Implications for Practice and Theory
HDSM, high-density survey and measurement, is the collective term for a range of new technologies that give us the ability to measure, record, and analyze the spatial, locational, and morphological properties of objects, sites, structures, and landscapes with higher density and more precision than ever before. This article considers HDSM technologies, including airborne lidar, real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (GNSS) survey, …
Integrated methods for understanding and monitoring the loss of coastal archaeological sites: The case of Tochni-Lakkia, south-central Cyprus
An Experiment in Using Visual Attention Metrics to Think About Experience and Design Choices in Past Places
Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing
The variety and sophistication of data sources, sensors, and platforms employed in archaeological remote sensing have increased significantly over the past decade. Projects incorporating data from UAV surveys, regional and research-driven lidar surveys, the uptake of hyperspectral imaging, the launch of high-temporal revisit satellites, the advent of multi-sensor rigs for geophysical survey, and increased use of structure from motion mean that mo…
Measuring Usewear on Black Gloss Pottery from Rome through 3D Surface Analysis
This project involves the high-resolution 3D laser scanning of a cache of Italian black gloss pottery from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Our aim is to examine in detail the minute traces of production and use of these vessels and to produce a digital record of their form. We have experimented with several scanning devices in order to determine the optimal methods for capturing abrasions on pottery and are developing digital methods for surface …
Publishing Archaeological Excavations at the Digital Turn
This paper engages with repeated calls within archaeology for a re-envisioning of the excavation report, contextualized by the transformation of scholarly communication taking place across the humanities and social sciences. This widespread transformation is rooted in a growing interest in showing data together with synthesis and argument, the importance afforded to public engagement, and the proliferation of digital platforms that enable creativ…
A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii
Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, o…
Country Roads: Travel, Visibility, and Late Classic Settlement in the Southern Maya Mountains
Mayanist archaeology has long been concerned with creating and evaluating explanatory models for the locations of ancient sites relative to one another and to the physical geography of the Maya world. This study combines epigraphic data and spatial analyses to explore motivations for settlement location and to interrogate territorial strategies in Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) kingdoms in the southern Maya Mountains, around the modern towns of Dolo…
Developing Fair Ontological Pathways: Linking Evidence of Movement in Lidar to Models of Human Behaviour
This paper proposes an ontological approach to connect the archaeological topographic evidence for movement in the landscape which can be derived from interpretation and spatial analysis of airborne lidar data with models of movement derived from modeling exercises such as Agent Based Modelling or Cost Path Modelling. This computational ontology enables the investigation of movement and its topographic manifestations in the landscape at various s…
A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of…
A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018
Excavations carried out at the Latin city of Gabii between 2012 and 2018 have contributed new data to a number of debates around the emergence, lived experience, maintenance, decline, and resilience of cities. Gabii’s urban trajectories demonstrate both seemingly familiar forms of urbanism and, on closer study, many locally circumscribed elements. Specifically, the Gabii Project excavations have uncovered an early Iron Age (8th–5th centuries b.c.…
Reimagining urban success: Rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC-AD 600
The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 ye…
Semantic Modelling of Archaeological Excavation Data. A review of the current state of the art and a roadmap of activities
Archaeological data repositories usually manage excavation data collections as project-level entities with restricted capacities to facilitate search or aggregation of excavation data at the sub-collection level (trenches, finds, season reports or excavation diaries etc.). More granular access to excavation data collections would enable layered querying across their informational content. In the past decade, several attempts to adapt CIDOC CRM in…
Remote Sensing Data to Support Integrated Decision Making in Cultural and Natural Heritage Management. Impasses and opportunities for collaboration in agricultural areas
Remote and near surface sensing data are widely used in archaeology and heritage management for feature discovery, change detection and monitoring, as an input to predictive modelling, and in the planning process. While global and regional datasets are widely used for some purposes, data are regularly acquired specifically for archaeological projects because of the very high spatial resolution required for feature detection and assessments of arc…
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (7 works) · History (7 works) · Remote sensing (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Data science (5 works) · History (5 works)