NetConnect:
Archaeological Sites
The three scenarios to be addressed are as follows:
Scenario 1
Magna Graecia (Italy)
One of the aims of the project is to design and develop
a virtual journey through archaeological sites
of the ancient Magna Graecia. The virtual journey
will support many and significant archaeological
sites, offering innovative products for the exploitation
and promotion of the Magno-Greek Cultural
Heritage, with particular reference to the Calabrian
poleis, as Lokroi, Sybaris, Skilletion, and Kroton.
The archaeological site of Lokroi has been chosen
as a first validation scenario by the implementing of
its several environments (theatre, agora, house,
temple, etc.): regarding the digital reproduction of
public or sacred buildings, such as theatres or temples,
documentation is very rich, because almost
intact monuments of the same age are present in the
Magno-Greek area (for example Paestum and Agrigento).
The documentation for this kind of modelling
consists of a database (images, texts, paintings)
obtained through an extensive bibliographic research.
The data has been categorized for easy location
according to the archaeological site, historical
age, and bibliographic source. Moreover, they
have been analysed by historians and archaeologists
to obtain a congruent and organic overall composition.
In fact, the activity of virtual reconstruction
of an archaeological site requires a close collaboration
between technological experts/researchers in
multimedia environments and cultural operators in
order to design and develop a realistic and historically
correct virtual representation.
For the Lokroi settlement documents depict an archaeological
site (founded between the VII and the
VIII century B.C.) of about 230 hectares (Figure 1),
and surrounded by 7 kilometres of walls. These
walls, still present in many parts, have a rectilinear
course, from the plain to the fortifications on the hill
tops of Castellace, Abbadessa and Mannella, and
draw a rectangle that reaches the coast. They are 6
meters high and 3.5 meters wide, consisting of
sandstone or limestone blocks, superimposed without
binding substances.
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