scholarly journals AN ONLINE 3D DATABASE SYSTEM FOR ENDANGERED ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W3 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Abate ◽  
A. Avgousti ◽  
M. Faka ◽  
S. Hermon ◽  
N. Bakirtzis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
The South ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Outstanding Universal Value ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
3D Database

The World Heritage Convention, drawn by various international bodies in 1972, was designed to protect cultural or natural places of outstanding universal value so that future generations may be able to enjoy them. Responding to these principles as well as to the Charter on the Preservation of Digital heritage (Vancouver, 2003), this multidisciplinary project, which involves archaeologists, art historians, conservators and computer scientists, aims to create an open access, 3D interactive online geo-database of endangered architectural and archaeological heritage in the South Eastern Mediterranean basin; a region of tremendous cultural importance whose rech heritage is unfortunately threatened by both natural and human factors. A wide range of 3D modelling and topographic techniques have been applied to create accurate reconstructions of heritage sites, enriched by a extensive array of metadata.

Inferences on the Problem of the Pleistocene Climate of Palestine and Syria drawn from Flora, Fauna and Stratigraphy

1937 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Picard
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
The South ◽  
Geological Evidence ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Pleistocene Climate ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Climate Influences ◽  
Critical Investigation

Setting aside the cosmological and meteorological speculations on the reconstruction of the climate of the south-eastern Mediterranean countries in the Pleistocene epoch, the bases of which are somewhat inadequate, there remains only geological evidence for the interpretation of that epoch. This evidence includes the information yielded by sediments: in the first place, those terrestrial types of soils which are the strongest indicators of climate influences and in the second place, the fauna and flora, in so far as types with enhanced power of climatological reaction are in any way recognisable. In 1932, I discussed the significance of the soils and will dwell on this subject at the end of this paper. My present task is mainly concerned with an attempt to submit the Pleistocene livingworld—within the limits of our present knowledge—to a critical investigation and to reconcile the results with our previous conclusions.

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