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Spairani Berrio, Yolanda; Gutiérrez Lloret, Sonia; Doménech-Belda, Carolina. “Una lectura transversal del estudio de las construcciones en piedra seca: arqueología, arquitectura, patrimonio histórico y cultural”. En: X Trobada Pedra Seca,... more

Spairani Berrio, Yolanda; Gutiérrez Lloret, Sonia; Doménech-Belda, Carolina. “Una lectura transversal del estudio de las construcciones en piedra seca: arqueología, arquitectura, patrimonio histórico y cultural”. En: X Trobada Pedra Seca, L’art de la pedra seca, patrimoni de la humanitat: El Pinós (Vinalopó Mitjà, Alacant), 18, 19 i 20 d’octubre de 2019. El Pinós: Ajuntament del Pinós; APSAT-Associació per la Pedra Seca i l’Arquitectura Tradicional; Federació d’Instituts d’Estudis del Pais Valencià, 2021. ISBN 978-84-09-34927-2, pp. 97-106

A preliminary research looking for ways to build and conserve traditional terraces in Israel. The Traditional knowledge is disappearing with the builders and the old terraces collapse, causing soil erosion. the research is a basis to... more

A preliminary research looking for ways to build and conserve traditional terraces in Israel. The Traditional knowledge is disappearing with the builders and the old terraces collapse, causing soil erosion. the research is a basis to Thesis in preparation.

Stone huts, locally known as kyphes are scattered all over the countryside of Chalke. Today, almost two hundreds of them survive. They are made of large pieces of rock laid in the corbelling technique, without the use of mortar. On the... more

Stone huts, locally known as kyphes are scattered all over the countryside of Chalke. Today, almost two hundreds of them survive.
They are made of large pieces of rock laid in the corbelling technique, without the use of mortar. On the outside, most of
them are covered with a double layer of small stones. They are associated to the medieval chapels near them and are dated
likewise to the Middle Ages (c. 1000-1500). The key monument for their dating is the church of Panagia (Virgin) Ηodegetria or
Enniameritissa, probably initially a kyphe itself, turned into a chapel in 1367. Kyphes form rural hamlets or belong to pastoral and
monastic settlements.

In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, sheep shepherds have built dry-stone shelters all over the Slovene Kras (or Karst) region. Despite being made out of stones that are interlocked without the use of any binding... more

In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, sheep shepherds have built dry-stone shelters all over the Slovene Kras (or Karst) region. Despite being made out of stones that are interlocked without the use of any binding material, many of these vernacular constructions survived – even though sometimes only partially – the ravages of time. The fact that over one hundred fifty shepherd shelters are currently known is mainly due to the craftsmanship of their builders and thanks to (and even despite) their present location. A majority of these stone constructions can be found in areas that are nowadays forested, thus shielding them from weather-related or anthropogenic damage (because they are difficult to spot). This paper reports on the geometric documentation of those shelters using a photogrammetric computer vision pipeline, thereby mainly focussing on the difficulties that were encountered during this process. However, such image-based modelling approaches merely yield digital three-dimensional (3D) approximations of the shelters’ surface geometry (along with some sub-optimal colour data). Although these 3D surface models might be suitable to digitally preserve vulnerable vernacular buildings to some extent, they do not magically advance our understanding of them. The second part of this article focuses, therefore, on the extraction of archaeological information from these digital 3D constructions. More specifically, the total amount of stones, the total building time and the building cost regarding caloric energy expenditure are estimated for each of the digitised shelters. Although this assessment of architectural energetics provided useful insight into the building efforts and nutrient uptake of the shepherds, it also revealed many assumptions and shortcomings that often characterise archaeological information extraction from digital 3D models of buildings.