H. Mara (Austria)
3D-Acquisition, Automation, Performance, Comparison, Archaeology, Sherds
Thousands of fragments of ceramics (called sherds for short) are found at archaeological excavation sites. One of these excavations sites is Tel Dor in Israel. The excavators in Dor use hand drawings and a profilograph for documen tation of sherds. Both techniques acquire a cross-section of the sherd, the so called profile line, which is used for classification and statistical analysis about the ancient population of Dor. As proposed in previous work we are developing a fully automated system for documentation of sherds by 3D-acquisition based on structured light and extraction of the profile line. Consequently we joined the field trip to Tel Dor in July, 2004 to compare in-situ the accuracy and performance of the traditional hand drawings, the profilograph and our system. We therefore alos measured the time for each step of documentation in-situ to find bottle-necks in documented sherds per hour. Based on these results we could propose an improvement to increase the throughput of our system by a factor of 5. The results of the comparison of all three techniques of documentation of sherds, the improvement for our system and a methodological experiment for future work are shown in this report.
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