News feedsDr Graeme Earl
Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Position: Senior Lecturer
Primary research group: Archaeological Computing Research Group
Affiliated research groups: Theory, Representation and Cultural Politics; Maritime Archaeology
Location: 65B/3037
Extension: 22911
Telephone: (023) 8059 2911
Fax: (023) 8059 3032
Email Dr Graeme Earl
Research interests
Dr Graeme Earl (Senior Lecturer) is a specialist in multi- and inter-disciplinary research, with a particular emphasis on interactions between cultural heritage and computation. He is particularly concerned with the development and implementation of digital data capture techniques and multimedia resources for archaeology, including the uses of computer graphics, virtual reality and other techniques for the interpretation of archaeological sites and for providing access to dispersed data. Graeme is a member of the University Strategic Research Groups (USRG) for the Digital Economy and Maritime Studies. Via the Computational Modelling Group he is also involved in the activities of the USRG in Complexity Science. His research is currently funded by grants from the AHRC, British Academy, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, EPSRC, JISC and University of Southampton (see below).
Graeme’s current research interests are:
- High fidelity CGI representations of archaeological data. Most recently this has been applied as part of the Portus Project, the Herculaneum Amazon Project and at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
- Blurring digital and physical interactions in archaeological practice, including the PATINA Project and at Portus.
- Data capture using laser scanning, Polynomial Texture Mapping and a range of geophysical and surveying processes. This is currently focussed on work in Taiwan, Italy and a number of projects in the UK.
- Archaeological data management, integration and delivery, including the Roman Port Networks Project, JISC IDMB Project, a PhD in Electronics and Computer Science on Linked Data and the eMob Project.
- Network analyses and fuzzy database approaches in the study of Roman towns.
He was formerly the Peder Sager Wallenberg Research Fellow, undertaking research focused on multimedia methods for presenting data and the use of computer aided design and modelling packages for the representation of archaeological remains at the site of Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt. He has acted as a cultural heritage IT consultant in a broad range of museum, media and industrial contexts.
PhD Supervision
Graeme is currently supervising PhD’s on the following topics:
- Bias in the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- Digital simulation of domestic occupation in the Greek Neolithic
- Linked data approaches to archaeological data integration
- Physically accurate rendering and Roman polychromy
- Visitor route design, pathways and digital mobile guides
- Visualising the Port of Pozzuoli
Graeme is also a supervisor in the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre.
Research Informed Teaching
Graeme is co-ordinator of the MSc Archaeological Computing: Virtual Pasts. He currently lectures on aspects of computer aided design, multimedia, reconstruction and animation on the MSc programmes in Archaeological Computing, and on the undergraduate BA and BSc programmes.
External Research and Reviewing Roles
Graeme is a member of World Archaeological Congress Internet and Global Communications Task Force, the London Charter, and the Archaeology Data Service management board. He is an advisory editor and reviewer for Internet Archaeology and the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, a member of the scientific/review committees for CAA, VAST, and WAC conferences, and a funding peer reviewer for the AHRC, CNRS (Agence Nationale de la Recherche – Blanc), EUFAR and as a nominated assessor for a range of other institutions.
Publications
Earl, G.P. In press. Physical and Photo-Realism: The Herculaneum Amazon. In Plenary session: Fundamentos teóricos de la Arqueología virtual. Proceedings of Arqueologica 2.0 Seville 2009
Earl, G.P., Keay, S.J. and Beale, G.C. In press. Evaluating Gismondi's Representation of Portus, the Port of Imperial Rome. In Proceedings of Arqueologica 2.0 Seville 2009
Earl, G.P., Keay, S.J. and Beale, G. In press. Archaeological computing for recording and presentation of Roman Portus. In Keay, S.J. and Paroli, L. (eds) Proceedings of the First Portus Workshop, held at the British School at Rome, March 2008. British School at Rome Monographs
Isaksen, L., Martinez, K., Gibbins, N., Earl, G. and Keay, S. In press. Linking Archaeological Data. Proceedings CAA 2009
Ogden, J., Keay, S., Earl, G., Strutt, K., Kay, S. In press. Geophysical Prospection at Portus: An Evaluation of an Integrated Approach to Interpreting Subsurface Archaeological Features. Proceedings CAA 2009
Keay, S.J., Earl, G.P., Hay, S., Kay, S., Ogden, J. and Strutt, K. In press. The Role of Integrated Geophysical Survey Methods in the Assessment of Archaeological Landscapes: the Case of Portus. Journal Archaeological Prospection
Goskar, T. A. & Earl, G. P. 2010. Polynomial texture mapping for archaeologists. British Archaeology 111: 28-31.
De Gaetano, E. and Earl, G.P. 2009. Visualising Pozzuoli: Digital models for reading Imperial architecture. In Perlingieri, C. and Pitzalis, D. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2009)
Papadopoulos, K. and Earl, G.P. 2009. Structural and Lighting Models for the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Crete. In Perlingieri, C. and Pitzalis, D. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2009)
Earl, G.P., Beale, G., Happa, J., Williams, M., Turley, G., Martinez, K., Chalmers, A. 2009. A Repainted Amazon. In Proceedings of the 2009 EVA London Conference. Available from: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.27681
Happa, J., Williams, M., Turley, G., Earl, G., Dubla, P., Beale, G., Gibbons, G., Debattista, K. and Chalmers, A. 2009. Virtual Relighting of a Roman Statue Head from Herculaneum, A Case Study. In Hardy, A., Marais, P., Spencer, SN., Gain, JE., Straßer, W. (eds.): Proceedings of the 6th Afrigraph 2009. ACM 2009
Available from: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1503454.1503456
Earl, G.P., Keay, S.J. and Beale, G. 2008. Computer Graphic Modelling at Portus: Analysis, Reconstruction and Representation of the Claudian and Trajanic Harbours. In Proceedings of EARSEL SIG Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Rome 2008
Keay, S., Earl, G., Hay, S., Kay, S., Ogden, J. and Strutt, K. 2008, The Potential of Archaeological Geophysics. The Work of the British School at Rome in Italy. In Geofisica per l’archeologia: Possibilita e Limiti. Roma 10 Dicembre 2008. Rome, CISTEC
Earl, G.P. and Keay, S.J. 2008. Network analysis and fuzzy semantic systems: integrating and analyzing Roman urban sites from southern Spain. In Proceedings Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference Fargo, April 2006
Keay, S.J. and Earl, G.P. 2007. In prep. Towns, Inscriptions and Territories in Roman Baetica. In Proceedings of feschrift for Armin U. Stylow held in Munich, October 2006
Glazier, D., Whitewright, J. and Earl, G.P. 2007. Topographic and geophysical survey. In D. Peacock and L. Blue (eds) The ancient Red Sea port of Adulis, Eritrea. Oxford: Oxbow
Earl, G.P. 2007. De/construction sites: Romans and the digital playground. In, Bowen, Jonathan, Keene, Suzanne and MacDonald, Lindsay (eds.) EVA 2007 London Conference Proceedings. Hampton Hill, UK, EVA Conferences International
Earl, G.P. and Keay, S.J. 2007. Network analysis and fuzzy semantic systems: integrating and analyzing Roman urban sites from southern Spain. In Proceedings Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference Fargo, April 2006
Keay, S.J. and Earl, G.P. 2007. In press. Structuring of the provincial landscape: the towns in central and western Baetica in their geographical context. Proceedings of invited seminar at the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, March 2006
Cripps, P.J., Earl, G.P. and Wheatley, D.W. 2006. A dwelling place in bits. In, Jorge, Vitor (ed.) Approaching prehistoric and protohistoric architectures of Europe from a dwelling perspective: proceedings of the TAG Session Sheffield, 2005. Porto, Portugal, Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Cooperação em Arqueologia Peninsular. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 8
Keay, S.J. and Earl, G.P. 2006. Epigraphy and connectivity in early Roman Baetica. In A. Sartori and A. Valvo (eds.) Hiberia Italia, Italia-Hiberia. Milan, Italy, Cisalpino. (Acta et Studia 2)
Earl, G.P. 2006. At the edges of the lens: photography, graphical constructions and cinematography. In T.L. Evans (Ed.) Digital Archaeology. London: Routledge
Earl, G.P. and Glazier, D.G. 2006. Various chapters and contributions. In D.P.S. Peacock and L.K. Blue, Quseir al-Qadim 1999-2003: Volume 1 Survey and Excavations. Oxford: Oxbow
Earl, G.P. 2005. Wandering the House of the Birds: reconstruction and perception at Roman Italica. M. Mudge, N. Ryan, R. Scopigno (Eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2005)
Earl, G.P. 2005. Spatial summaries of built archaeological spaces: a technique derived from global light mapping. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Ghent, Belgium VSMM (2005) Brussels: ENAME
Earl, G.P. Desert stories, desert sites: multimedia and the archaeological process in Egypt. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Gifu, Japan VSMM (2004). 2004.
Earl, G.P. 2004. Video killed interpretative VR. In S. Moser and S. Smiles (Eds) Envisioning the past. Oxford: Blackwell
Earl, G.P. 2004. Digital meanders through a dusty archaeology: a web-based exploration of excavation practice. In K. Cain, Y. Chrysanthou, F. Niccolucci, N. Silberman (Eds) Interdisciplinarity or the best of both worlds: selected papers from the 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2004). Brussels: ENAME
Papworth, H., Brown, D.H. and Earl, G.P. 2004. The Application of Colour Reproduction within a Museum Display. In K. Cain, Y. Chrysanthou, F. Niccolucci, N. Silberman (Eds) Interdisciplinarity or the best of both worlds: selected papers from the 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2004). Brussels: ENAME
Goodrick, G. and Earl, G.P. 2003. A manufactured past: virtual reality in archaeology Internet Archaeology 15
Earl, G.P. and D.W. Wheatley. 2002. Virtual reconstruction and the interpretative process: a case-study from Avebury. In D.W. Wheatley, G.P. Earl. and S. Poppy (Eds), Contemporary themes in Archaeological Computing. Oxford: Oxbow
Wheatley, D.W. Earl, G.P. and Poppy, S.J. (Eds) 2002. Contemporary themes in Archaeological Computing. Oxford: Oxbow
Earl, G.P. 2000. Visualising Danebury: modelled approaches to spatial theory. In L. Dingwall, S. Exon, V. Gaffney, S. Lafflin & M. van Leusen (eds.), Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology: proceedings of the 25th anniversary conference, University of Birmingham April 1997. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum. British Archaeological Reports S750
Research projects
Graeme is principal investigator on the AHRC RTI DEDEFI project – focussed on developing new and enhanced imaging technologies for ancient documentary artefacts and archaeology. He is also co-director of the AHRC sponsored Portus Project – an excavation and survey of the imperial port of Rome and a co-investigator on the RCUK Digital Economy Patina Project – which is researching research design for the future, focussed on blending digital and physical interactions with information. He is also a named investigator on a JISC project scoping and implementing a blueprint for institutional data management.
Title |
Award Holder(s) |
Funding Body |
| Reflectance Transformation Imaging Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts | Graeme Earl (PI), Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Jacob Dahl, Kirk Martinez (CIs) |
AHRC (DEDEFI) |
| Portus Project | Simon Keay (PI), Graeme Earl and Martin Millett (CIs) |
AHRC (Standard Grants) |
| PARNASSUS: flood resilience for protection of cultural heritage from climate change impact | Dina D'Ayala (PI), Paul Bates, Graeme Earl, Enrico Fodde, Matthew Johnson, Wendel Sebastian and Joanna Sofaer (CIs) | AHRC (Science and Heritage) |
| Sandpit: PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through INteractions with Artefacts | Mike Fraser (PI), Anne Boddington, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Rosamund Davies, Graeme Earl, Matt Jones, Luc Moreau (CIs) |
EPSRC/ AHRC/ British Library |
| Institutional Data Management Blueprint (IDMB) | Kenji Takeda (PI), Mark Brown, Leslie Carr, Simon Coles, Graeme Earl, Jeremy Frey, Peter Hancock (CIs) |
JISC |
| Polychrome Statuary | Graeme Earl (PI) |
AHRC (CDA) |
Continuity and Change in a Southern Pai-wan community: archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic perspectives |
Maa-Ling Chen (PI), Graeme Earl and Yvonne Marshall (CIs) |
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan
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Bias in the Portable Antiquities Scheme |
Graeme Earl (PI) |
AHRC (CDA) |
| Bodiam and Lived Experience | Matthew Johnson (PI) and Graeme Earl (CI) | AHRC (CDA) |
Willandra Project |
Graeme Earl (PI) and Fraser Sturt (PI) |
University of Southampton - Adventures in Research |
Siarum field survey |
Graeme Earl (PI) |
British Academy |
| Module title | Module code | Discipline | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Methods | ARCH3033 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Constructing Virtual Pasts | ARCH6058 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Core Computing | ARCH6054 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Issues in Archaeological Science | ARCH1047 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Multimedia Methods in Archaeology | ARCH6056 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Research Skills | ARCH6063 | Archaeology | Course leader |
| Archaeological Computing Systems | ARCH6057 | Archaeology | Tutor |
| Archaeological Geophysics | ARCH6084 | Archaeology | Tutor |
| Heritage Management and Conservation of Artefacts | ARCH6076 | Archaeology | Tutor |
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