Rich Potter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4617700 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rich Potter |
| PRENOMES | Rich |
| SOBRENOME | Potter |
| ASSINATURA | POTTER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3966-5080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Carving miniature worlds – landscape, environments, and Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers
This contribution argues that Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers selected specific panels and created miniatures of real and imagined worlds by placing images close to water flows and accumulations. This is based on the output of agent-based modelling which was used to calculate water flows and accumulations on rock art panels, as well as specific observations on their surface topography and the surrounding landscape. To understand why such minia…
The Palamas Archaeological Project 2024
Over the course of the 2024 season of the Palamas Archaeological Project, a number of archaeological sites in the vicinity of modern Palamas were excavated and surveyed. Excavations at the multiperiod urban settlement at Vlochos yielded evidence of the Hellenistic and Late Roman periods, including that of a probable stoa and of extensive metalworking industry. The fieldwalking survey on the nearby hill of Kourtikiano Vouno was concluded, followed…
Decorated Standing Stones – The Hagbards Galge Monument in Southwest Sweden
This article focuses on Hagbards galge (in English Hagbard's gallows ), a burial site in south-west Sweden that consists of two stone settings with monumental paired standing stones decorated with rock art. The combination of these different features into one burial site makes the monument unique in a Scandinavian setting. This article aims to contextualize the monument in a European Bronze Age framework. We do this by discussing the stone settin…
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere
Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant efforts within the digital community, there exists an increasing dichotomy between approaches that make information and data accessible to wide audience and user groups and those that require a significant depth of specialism to access. Broadly speaking,…
The Palamas Archaeological Project 2023
The 2023 fieldwork in the area of Palamas, Thessaly, was severely hampered by catastrophic weather events affecting the area. In spite of this, the project managed to conduct excavations, surface and architectural surveys, as well as geophysical prospection at a number of sites in the region. The work continues to highlight the chronological breadth of archaeological remains in the area, as well as further details regarding little-known periods o…
The Palamas Archaeological Project
This paper presents the preliminary results from the 2022 fieldwork of the Palamas Archaeological Project, an ongoing Greek–Swedish collaboration in the region of Karditsa, Thessaly. Working over the course of two separate field seasons, the project team conducted aerial, architectural, fieldwalking, and geophysical surveys at a number of sites within the survey area, including at the important multi-phase fortified settlements at Metamorfosi and…
Bringing it all together
This paper presents the results of a photogrammetric survey of the rock art panel Tanum 247:1 in Kalleby, which revealed an entirely new boat that had previously been missed in a documentation history over 50 years long. Through the combined use of digital and traditional methods the results could be verified. It is therefore argued that collating documentations, both past and present, can help to create a better picture of Bronze Age rock art ca…
Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas
This paper presents preliminary results of the Palamas Archaeological Project relating to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods in the study area in western Thessaly, Greece. These periods are comparatively understudied in Thessaly, and the aim of this work is to highlight the extent of the material and the potential of investigating the archaeology of Late Antiquity in the region. The work was centred on excavations and survey at the site a…
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how water influences the placement of rock art. The analysis is based on photogrammetric models on which water flows and accumulations were modelled using a NetLogo simulation and the SAGA hydrology package. To test the hypothesis that water was a structuring element in the creation of rock art, case studie…
Some preliminary notes on the limited 2020 campaign of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP)
This paper presents a short summary of archaeological operations carried out in 2020 in the area of the modern village of Vlochos on the western Thessalian plain, Greece, as part of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP). Initially, the project aimed to conduct a significant campaign of fieldwork during the 2020 season, but operations were severely scaled back by limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, only a small-scale campai…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece
The Vlochos Archaeological Project (2016–2018) was a Greek-Swedish archaeological investigation of the remains of the ancient urban site at Vlochos in western Thessaly, Greece. Employing a wide array of non-invasive methods, the project succeeded in completely mapping the visible remains, which had previously not been systematically investigated. The extensive remains of multi-period urban fortifications, a Classical-Hellenistic city, a Roman tow…
An evaluation of the visualisation and interpretive potential of applying GIS data processing techniques to 3D rock art data
Rock art provides a tangible visual link to past communities and has significant value in building our under-standing of prehistoric societies. Its recording and interpretation has long provided a window to intangibleaspects of society, such as belief systems and folk narratives. Petroglyphic rock art has traditionally been re-corded through simple rubbing, or frottage, and the majority of interpretations and narratives to date have beenbased on …
By All Means Necessary – 2.5D and 3D Recording of Surfaces in the Study of Southern Scandinavian Rock Art
Southern Scandinavia is Europe’s richest region in terms of figurative rock art. It is imperative to document this cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, researchers need to use the most objective recording methods available in order to eliminate human error and bias in the documentation. The ability to collect more data is better, not only for documentation, but also for research purposes. Recent years have seen the wider int…
Transforming the Rocks – Time and Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden
Human representations are one of the most important groups of depictions in rock art in southern Scandinavia. These humans have long been discussed as complete, stable, and temporally-fixed images. The results of a new survey challenge this view. Recording rock art with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) enabled us to discern a possible sequence of production of individual human representations, their bodily features, and associated objects…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
Transforming the Rocks – Time and Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden
Human representations are one of the most important groups of depictions in rock art in southern Scandinavia. These humans have long been discussed as complete, stable, and temporally-fixed images. The results of a new survey challenge this view. Recording rock art with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) enabled us to discern a possible sequence of production of individual human representations, their bodily features, and associated objects…
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how water influences the placement of rock art. The analysis is based on photogrammetric models on which water flows and accumulations were modelled using a NetLogo simulation and the SAGA hydrology package. To test the hypothesis that water was a structuring element in the creation of rock art, case studie…
An evaluation of the visualisation and interpretive potential of applying GIS data processing techniques to 3D rock art data
Rock art provides a tangible visual link to past communities and has significant value in building our under-standing of prehistoric societies. Its recording and interpretation has long provided a window to intangibleaspects of society, such as belief systems and folk narratives. Petroglyphic rock art has traditionally been re-corded through simple rubbing, or frottage, and the majority of interpretations and narratives to date have beenbased on …
By All Means Necessary – 2.5D and 3D Recording of Surfaces in the Study of Southern Scandinavian Rock Art
Southern Scandinavia is Europe’s richest region in terms of figurative rock art. It is imperative to document this cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, researchers need to use the most objective recording methods available in order to eliminate human error and bias in the documentation. The ability to collect more data is better, not only for documentation, but also for research purposes. Recent years have seen the wider int…
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere
Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant efforts within the digital community, there exists an increasing dichotomy between approaches that make information and data accessible to wide audience and user groups and those that require a significant depth of specialism to access. Broadly speaking,…
Transforming the Rocks – Time and Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden
Human representations are one of the most important groups of depictions in rock art in southern Scandinavia. These humans have long been discussed as complete, stable, and temporally-fixed images. The results of a new survey challenge this view. Recording rock art with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) enabled us to discern a possible sequence of production of individual human representations, their bodily features, and associated objects…
By All Means Necessary – 2.5D and 3D Recording of Surfaces in the Study of Southern Scandinavian Rock Art
Southern Scandinavia is Europe’s richest region in terms of figurative rock art. It is imperative to document this cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, researchers need to use the most objective recording methods available in order to eliminate human error and bias in the documentation. The ability to collect more data is better, not only for documentation, but also for research purposes. Recent years have seen the wider int…
An evaluation of the visualisation and interpretive potential of applying GIS data processing techniques to 3D rock art data
Rock art provides a tangible visual link to past communities and has significant value in building our under-standing of prehistoric societies. Its recording and interpretation has long provided a window to intangibleaspects of society, such as belief systems and folk narratives. Petroglyphic rock art has traditionally been re-corded through simple rubbing, or frottage, and the majority of interpretations and narratives to date have beenbased on …
The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece
The Vlochos Archaeological Project (2016–2018) was a Greek-Swedish archaeological investigation of the remains of the ancient urban site at Vlochos in western Thessaly, Greece. Employing a wide array of non-invasive methods, the project succeeded in completely mapping the visible remains, which had previously not been systematically investigated. The extensive remains of multi-period urban fortifications, a Classical-Hellenistic city, a Roman tow…
Some preliminary notes on the limited 2020 campaign of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP)
This paper presents a short summary of archaeological operations carried out in 2020 in the area of the modern village of Vlochos on the western Thessalian plain, Greece, as part of the Palamas Archaeological Project (PAP). Initially, the project aimed to conduct a significant campaign of fieldwork during the 2020 season, but operations were severely scaled back by limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, only a small-scale campai…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
Bringing it all together
This paper presents the results of a photogrammetric survey of the rock art panel Tanum 247:1 in Kalleby, which revealed an entirely new boat that had previously been missed in a documentation history over 50 years long. Through the combined use of digital and traditional methods the results could be verified. It is therefore argued that collating documentations, both past and present, can help to create a better picture of Bronze Age rock art ca…
Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas
This paper presents preliminary results of the Palamas Archaeological Project relating to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods in the study area in western Thessaly, Greece. These periods are comparatively understudied in Thessaly, and the aim of this work is to highlight the extent of the material and the potential of investigating the archaeology of Late Antiquity in the region. The work was centred on excavations and survey at the site a…
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how water influences the placement of rock art. The analysis is based on photogrammetric models on which water flows and accumulations were modelled using a NetLogo simulation and the SAGA hydrology package. To test the hypothesis that water was a structuring element in the creation of rock art, case studie…
The Palamas Archaeological Project
This paper presents the preliminary results from the 2022 fieldwork of the Palamas Archaeological Project, an ongoing Greek–Swedish collaboration in the region of Karditsa, Thessaly. Working over the course of two separate field seasons, the project team conducted aerial, architectural, fieldwalking, and geophysical surveys at a number of sites within the survey area, including at the important multi-phase fortified settlements at Metamorfosi and…
The Palamas Archaeological Project 2023
The 2023 fieldwork in the area of Palamas, Thessaly, was severely hampered by catastrophic weather events affecting the area. In spite of this, the project managed to conduct excavations, surface and architectural surveys, as well as geophysical prospection at a number of sites in the region. The work continues to highlight the chronological breadth of archaeological remains in the area, as well as further details regarding little-known periods o…
The Palamas Archaeological Project 2024
Over the course of the 2024 season of the Palamas Archaeological Project, a number of archaeological sites in the vicinity of modern Palamas were excavated and surveyed. Excavations at the multiperiod urban settlement at Vlochos yielded evidence of the Hellenistic and Late Roman periods, including that of a probable stoa and of extensive metalworking industry. The fieldwalking survey on the nearby hill of Kourtikiano Vouno was concluded, followed…
Decorated Standing Stones – The Hagbards Galge Monument in Southwest Sweden
This article focuses on Hagbards galge (in English Hagbard's gallows ), a burial site in south-west Sweden that consists of two stone settings with monumental paired standing stones decorated with rock art. The combination of these different features into one burial site makes the monument unique in a Scandinavian setting. This article aims to contextualize the monument in a European Bronze Age framework. We do this by discussing the stone settin…
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere
Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant efforts within the digital community, there exists an increasing dichotomy between approaches that make information and data accessible to wide audience and user groups and those that require a significant depth of specialism to access. Broadly speaking,…
Carving miniature worlds – landscape, environments, and Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers
This contribution argues that Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers selected specific panels and created miniatures of real and imagined worlds by placing images close to water flows and accumulations. This is based on the output of agent-based modelling which was used to calculate water flows and accumulations on rock art panels, as well as specific observations on their surface topography and the surrounding landscape. To understand why such minia…
Archaeology (13 obras) · Archaeological Research and Protection (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (7 obras) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (6 obras) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Rock art (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)