DAH Lab is located in the King's Manor, Department of Archaeology, University of York. We are a community of scholars who use digital tools to investigate archaeology and heritage. In these pages you can see examples of our recent work.
Join us on 18 July, 5pm at the King's Manor for an exhibition of work created by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, inspired by the UKRI-AHRC funded Avebury Papers Project. For details email colleen.morgan@york.ac.uk
Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for a secondment in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. Her project, Under construction. Visualising the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE) in 3D, will be examining technical traditions of ancient builders in Central Italy and modern archaeologists, through integrated computational and 3D visualisation techniques.
Colleen Morgan and Nick Jones (from School of Arts and Creative Technologies) streamed the Untitled Goose Game on Twitch to discuss the game's interaction with materiality and Colleen's research.
In collaboration with the European Society for Black and Allied Archaeologists and the University of Leiden Past at Play Lab we hosted the Heritage Jam, a 3 day workshop of lectures, research and game creation!
Digital Heritage MSc Demi Thorsteinsson created an interactive low-poly visual interpretation of Star Carr and has uploaded it to Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/oqnXn
Colleen Morgan joined Cobi Van Tonder and Paulina Lewinska to laser scan caves in the Yorkshire Dales in support of Van Tonder's Acoustic Atlas Project https://www.acousticatlas.de/
Over the summer we won a grant to completely refit the lab with new, high-spec visualising computers!
Interactive interface for Oakham Castle by Ross Baker
3D reconstruction of a medieval Italo-Netherlandish Maiolica Ware Jug by Kit Ackland.
Playing With Monsters: An Uncanny Digital Archaeology - a talk by Colleen Morgan given to the Stanford Archaeology Center (Oct 2020)