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LBI ArchPro scientist Georg Zotti at International Astronomical Union Symposium

Computer scientist and astronomer Georg Zotti of the LBI ArchPro has been invited to speak at the Symposium of the International Astronomical Union on Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy. In his talk he presented a few relevant features of the desktop planetarium Stellarium of which he is one of the voluntary developers.

“Living Danube Limes” is a EU funded Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project that is centered around the Roman Danube Limes as transnational cultural heritage of enormous significance. Spanning the whole Danube region, the project aims at further developing and enhancing the connecting aspects of the Roman heritage sites along the river, thus, fostering a common sense of togetherness in the Danube Region. To achieve this, nineteen project partners from ten countries will collaborate on the exploration and protection of cultural sites as well as the development of green and sustainable tourism and cultural route solutions. The LBI ArchPro will investigate various Roman sites using geophysical prospection methods and contribute to the subsequent creation and implementation of VR reconstructions for pilot sites (more information: https://archpro.lbg.ac.at/living-danube-limes).

What could be one of the largest prehistoric sites in the UK has been discovered near Stonehenge through the geophysical surveys undertaken as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project which is led in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology. A massive 2km-wide ring of prehistoric ‘shafts’ up to 10m wide and 5m deep has been discovered around the ‘super henge’ at Durrington Walls and the famous site at Woodhenge. The structures have been carbon dated to about 2500BC.

LBI ArchPro scientist Dr. Roland Filzwieser was awarded the Barbara Scholkmann Prize of Historical Archaeology for his outstanding dissertation on the late medieval and early modern landscape of Scharfeneck Castle and the Scharfeneck dominion. As a historian and expert in archaeological prospection methods, he combines the methods and sources of historical science with those of archaeological prospection and landscape archaeology in an exemplary interdisciplinary manner.

The Institute is dedicated to the development of new techniques and methodological concepts for landscape archaeology. It combines geophysics, computer science, geomatics and archaeology to develop efficient and universally applicable methods and techniques for the non-destructive detection, documentation, investigation, visualisation and integrative interpretation and spatial analysis of the cultural heritage of archaeological landscapes.