I recently had the pleasure of serving as co-host for the ArchaeoTech Podcast with Chris Webster while Paul Zimmerman was out of the country for several weeks. In total, I co-hosted three episodes between and August 4. Summaries and links to the episodes are provided below. While the topics generally focus on GIS and 3D applications in archaeology, we also…
Category: Public Outreach
Creating Textured 3D Terrains (QGIS & Blender)
You’ve probably seen those cool interactive 3D models of landscapes around the web. Lots of folks are using them to illustrate various places. Perhaps you’ve even wondered, “how can I do this? It would be a great way to display my favorite site!” You know, something like the following 3D terrain of the Pinson Mounds site I use to teach…
Building the Virtual Rosewood Cemetery
This post describes the process of building the Virtual Rosewood Cemetery available at Sketchfab (see below). The online, interactive reconstruction of Rosewood’s Black burial ground is based on several digital technologies increasingly used by archaeologists. These include LiDAR, photogrammetry, ground penetrating radar (GPR), and 3D modeling. While this post isn’t a tutorial per se, it might help folks with these…
Parramore: Segregation in The City Beautiful
This month’s mini documentary discusses the history of Parramore, Florida. This community is home to one of Orlando’s oldest African American neighborhoods. The video divides this history into three sections. The first focuses on the 18th century and early efforts to segregate Orlando. The second section explores the growth of Parramore and continued efforts to restrict it during the 20th…
Mapping African American Travel During Jim Crow
The remarkable Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has digitized versions of their Green Book collection. These books are part of the public consciousness following the 2018 Green Book movie and will be a part of the forthcoming HBO series Lovecraft Country, based on Matt Ruff’s book of the same title. Published between 1936 and 1966, these books provided…