EAN: 9783031231353

QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCI...

This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving
our understanding of the past  through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material
culture. In particular  it encourages specialists to consider senses and human agency as
important factors in studying ancient space  while recognising the role played by digital tools
in enhancing a human-centred form of analysis. Significant advances in archaeological computing
digital methods  and sensory approaches have led archaeologists to rethink strategies and
methods for creating narratives of the past. Recent progress in data visualisation and
implementation  as well as other nascent digital sensory methods  means that it is now easier
to explore and experience ancient space from a multiscalar perspective  from the individual
body or single building to the wider landscape. The chapters in Capturing the Senses: Digital
Methods for Sensory Archaeologies present innovative methods for representing an embodied
experience of ancient space  simulating (but not recreating) ancient behaviours and social
interaction. Chapters cover topics including the potentials and pitfalls of visualising 
recreating  and re-enacting experiencing the senses in Virtual Reality environments and also
digital reconstructions and auralisations of ancient spaces to study sound sensory perception.
Overall  the book demonstrates that multisensory approaches can give a new perspective on how
ancient spaces were intended to be used by inhabitants to fulfil a series of purposes including
conveying messages and regulating movement. This is an open-access book.

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