
Miran EričInstitute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia
Miran Erič
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The Early Watercraft Initiative (EW) was founded in 2015 in Vrhnika, Slovenia. After fire and tools,watercraft are among the oldest and most important human inventions. However, we can only determinehow old logboats are (8200 BC) through archaeological research (AMS dating, dendrochronology). Butthere are other EW, which cannot be studied only thro...
A rare and valuable Palaeolithic wooden point, presumably belonging to a hunting weapon, was found in the Ljubljanica River in Slovenia in 2008. In order to prevent complete decay, the waterlogged wooden artefact had to undergo conservation treatment, which usually involves some expected deformations of structure and shape. To investigate these cha...
Traditional radiology and, after 1975, computed tomography have been used in archaeology since their inception as non-invasive imaging techniques for dealing with delicate and valuable artefacts (e.g. mummies, Palaeolithic and ancient remains, papyrus scrolls, wood, metal tools, coins, jewellery, weapons, ceramics, wall paintings, etc.). It was not...
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Presentation talk about development of Underwater Heritage (UH) in Slovenija and interdisciplinary colaboration between UH and Computer Vision e.g. Computer Science.
Conservation of wooden artefacts that have been submerged in water for thousands of years is a process that is important for their preservation in their original or unchanged form and for documenting all information about the object at the time of its discovery.
The experience of conserving a Palaeolithic wooden point from the Ljubljanica River con...
Mobility is a basic requirement for the exchange not only of material goods, but also of knowledge and ideas and thus of great importance for the socioeconomic , cultural and socio-political systems already in prehistoric time. Cultural constraints, behavioral interactions and social norms might have regulated mobility and communication. Technology...
Abstract – In the last decade, we have witnessed a revolutionary development of digitally supported information and computer technologies that enable us to acquire highly accurate models of different aspects of the environment. Through advanced technology of three dimensional (3D) printing, it is now possible to reproduce small and large artefacts...
In 2012, a part of a Roman flat bottom cargo ship was researched in the Ljubljanica river near Sinja Gorica. The documentation was based on multi-image photogrammetry. After the initial publishing of the find in 2014, accurate comparative analysis of the 3D point cloud was performed again to find out if any pertinent infor-mation on the constructio...
During archaeological excavations undertaken prior to a building project, an archaeologist unexpectedly came across some timbers. On closer inspection, these were found to be the bottom of an upturned logboat. Radiometric dating showed that it dated to the 8th century BC. Judging from the excavated section, the logboat was 90cm wide with an estimat...
The Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia (IPCHS) has a long tradition in conserving works of art. It has preserved many archaeological objects, but relatively few waterlogged wooden objects, in the last three decades.
Experimental studies of waterlogged wood conservation using the PEG and sucrose methods started in the 1980...
In 2015 the Slovenian Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage was enriched with the description of how to make a characteristic extended logboat, called a drevák. Its presence can be traced to the 17th century when the first written sources witness its use in the basin of the Ljubljanica River—a region of karstic fields (called ‘polje’) in Notranj...
The management and presentation of cultural heritage over a given region requires a dedicated database which can store all relevant information (location, text, photography, 3D models, animations etc.) and an intuitive way of accessing this information (searching via different criteria such as geo-location, time-frame, type of find, state of preser...
Early Watercraft (EW) all over the world marks the beginning of human migration, transportation, and shipbuilding traditions. Log-boats, rafts, bark boats, and skin boats are one of the oldest and most essential inventions of the humankind, still used today by various Indigenous cultures.
It should largely be agreed that in the Early and Middle Holocene the communication and transport routes were mainly based on the intra-European water network and coastlines. However, it is still unclear in what form this exchange of goods, ideas and individuals took place and which vessels were available. In northern Europe, paddles are documented...
Our understanding of the roots of how the migration was developed in prehistory is heavily insufficiently. However, we can believe that humankind living near water network and coastlines invent, as Detlev Elmers say 1975, ”apparatus” to cross those water network which wraps our planet. That simple apparatus today we call Early Watercraft which help...
Early Watercraft (EW) all over the world marks the beginning of human migration, transportation, and shipbuilding traditions. Logboats, rafts, bark boats, and skin boats are one of the oldest and most essential inventions of the humankind, still used today by various Indigenous cultures. Global existence suggests EW could be considered as one of th...
Session 482: New and interdisciplinary approaches in the research of Prehistoric waterborne communication and exchange along European rivers, lakes and coastal waters
It should largely be agreed that in the Early and Middle Holocene the communication and transport routes were mainly based on the intra-European water network and coastlines. Howeve...
submissions deadline March 21 st , 2020
Session: 6. Early Watercraft: The oldest dispersed global humankind cultural heritage
The finding of prehistoric Early Watercraft (EW) from all over the world marks the beginning of shipbuilding, navigation and transportation traditions. The oldest archaeological material evidence shows at least 13k years...
Early watercraft can be considered as one of the first and most significant human inventions from technical, cultural and environmental perspectives. The discovery that water – at the beginning rivers, lakes and bays – can be utilised to improve human mobility represents an important historic milestone with a direct impact on human migration, trade...
Abstract: Early Watercraft (EW) all over the world marks the beginning of human migra-tion, transportation, and shipbuilding traditions. Logboats, rafts, bark boats, and skin boats are among the oldest and most essential inventions of humankind, still used today by various indigenous cultures. Global existence suggests EW could be considered as one...
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The TRIGLAV project by the OHO Group has cut into the creative artistic body of the inhabitants in the geographical area of the north-eastern hinterland of the Adriatic Sea in definitive, profound and long-lasting ways. Its influence stretches well beyond into other arenas and continents through the prophetic sharpness of its initial reism...
The article describes the comparison and analysis of five 3D models of the hunting tool from the Ljubljanica River found near Sinja Gorica. The 40,000 years old Palaeolithic point, discovered by underwater archaeologists during a preventive archeological survey, was made out of yew wood. Five 3D models of the point were taken over the period of ten...
The article describes the comparison and analysis of five 3D models of the hunting tool from the Ljubljanica River found near Sinja Gorica. The 40,000 years old Palaeolithic point, discovered by underwater archaeologists during a preventive archeological survey, was made out of yew wood. Five 3D models of the point were taken over the period of ten...
An initiative EWA is a lifetime project started in April 2015 at Vrhnika (Slovenia) which should establish a worldwide scientific network with the almost all professionals who deal with the issues of the beginning of humankind navigation. We try to understand how humanity realised the benefits of the worldwide water network, what this means to rais...
Abstract - In the last decade, we have witnessed revolutionary developments of digitally supported information and computer technologies that enable us to acquire highly accurate models of different aspects of the environment. Through advanced technology of three-dimensional printing, it is now possible to reproduce artefacts with high precision an...
What do lakes that are separated by up to 9,500km have in common? These are Lake Lugu, Lake Suwa, Lake Ohrid and the Ljubljanica River Basin. It is impossible to imagine what could bring these together, since different cultures were living in the Japanese ”Alps", the Mosuo people in China and on the other side in the Balkans and the foothills of th...
The contents of Proposal is copyrighted by the 26 Ambassadors of Global Initiative: Early Watercraft - A global perspective of invention and development. And it is forbiden to use ideas from proposal without Ambassadors permissions.
The findings of prehistoric vessels (e.g. EarlyWatercraft), logboats and dugout canoes as the oldest evidence (logbo...
Sometimes the ambition of researchers remains empty-handed although all the circumstances suggest that a positive outcome would have happened. This kind of situation took place just a few kilometres away from the 7,500-year-old Hotiza logboat in the Mura River. The first information from the road and riverbank reconstruction was that a carved log 7...
After a long period of learning photogrammetric methodologies for documentation of underwater archaeological sites, which we started in eastern Adriatic 15 years ago on the island of Silba, we finally got an opportunity to replace old site documenting methods based on measuring with contemporary possibilities offered by rapidly progressive developm...
The contents of Proposal is copyrighted by the 55 Ambassadors (28 countries) of Global Initiative: Early Watercraft - A global perspective of invention and development. And it is forbiden to use ideas from proposal without Ambassadors permissions.
Initiative growth in last years to 97 individual an 21 official institutional Ambassadors from 48 cou...
In recent decades we have witnessed almost revolutionary
changes in the documentation of underwater heritage.
The research in this area was given a strong impetus by
development of a special discipline within archeology,
strongly stimulated by changes in research philosophy.
It had outgrown the passion for collecting artifacts to engage
in data col...
3D documentation of underwater archaeological sites is an indispensable and regular part of the methodological procedure and anyone, who is considered a serious researcher, does not even think to try to reassure the scientific community about the site's condition without entirely new methodological standards. However, 15 years ago, that was not pos...
Multi-image photogrammetry can in favorable conditions even under water generate large clouds of 3D points which can be used for visualization of sunken heritage. For analysis of under-water archeological sites and comparison of artifacts, more compact shape models must be reconstructed from 3D points, where each object or a part of it is modeled i...
The idea of the Initiative is based on 20 year of topic forming and developing which culminate in paper given on World Cultural Heritage Conference EUROMED 2014 (supported and organized by ISPRS, CIPA, ICOMOS, ICOM, ICCROM) which held in November 2014 in Lemessos, Cyprus. Paper were recognise as best paper on Conference and it was awarded by first...
Karstic landscape is a specific heritage, where surface and underground are part of single landscape. Where underground (caves, shafts...) played an important role in the development of surface. Landscape where natural an anthropogenic processes worked hand in hand. Caves were often treated as being separate from the outside landscape, recorded in...
The findings of prehistoric logboats, dugout canoes and other vessels all over the world mark the beginning of shipbuilding and transportation traditions. The part of this important world heritage landscape is also Ljubljansko barje. This great story of transportation on water, which is closely linked to man’s traditional coexistence with water and...
Karstic landscape is a specific heritage, where surface and underground are part of single landscape. Where underground (caves, shafts...) played an important role in the development of surface. Landscape where natural an anthropogenic processes worked hand in hand. Caves were often treated as being separate from the outside landscape, recorded in...
The findings of prehistoric logboats, dugout canoes and other vessels all over the world mark the beginning of shipbuilding and transportation traditions. The part of this important world heritage landscape is also Ljubljansko barje. This great story of transportation on water, which is closely linked to man’s traditional coexistence with water and...
Karstic landscape is a specific heritage, where surface and underground are part of single landscape. Where underground (caves, shafts...) played an important role in the development of surface. Land-scape where natural an anthropogenic processes worked hand in hand. Caves were often treated as being separate from the outside landscape, recorded in...
The findings of prehistoric logboats, dugout canoes and other vessels all over the world mark the beginning of shipbuilding and trans-portation traditions. The part of this important world heritage landscape is also Ljubljansko barje. This great story of transportation on water, which is closely linked to man's traditional coexistence with water an...
Preventive underwater archaeological surveying in the bed of the Ljubljanica River, conducted at Sinja Gorica in 2008, revealed the remains of an Early Roman wooden barge from the beginning of the 1st century AD. Detailed documentation of the 4.5m long and 2.8m wide section of the boat followed in October 2012 and included photogrammetric three-dim...
A preventive underwater survey conducted in 2008 in the Ljubljanica river near Sinja Gorica (between Vrhnika and Ljubljana, Slovenia), revealed the remains of a sunken vessel. Investigations showed that it belonged to a flat-bottomed barge, at least 16 m long, with nearly vertical side planks connected by iron clamps. We present here the results of...
Preventive underwater archaeological surveying in the bed of the Ljubljanica River, conducted at Sinja Gorica in 2008, revealed the remains of an Early Roman wooden barge from the beginning of the 1st century AD. Detailed documentation of the 4.5m long and 2.8m wide section of the boat followed in October 2012 and included photogrammetric three-dim...
The sea along the Slovenian coast was long thought to be empty and devoid of interest as far as ves tigesof the past were concerned. Some decades ago, however, fishermen began reporting on wooden timbers caught intheir nets, amateur fishermen were observing wooden hulls during breath-hold diving on undisclosed locations and divers with autonomous d...
Documenting underwater cultural heritage is a challenging undertaking. Underwater environment is not a man’s natural habitat and special equipment and devices had to be invented so that he could enter and study this environment. Several decades of underwater research and many sacrifices were needed to fully understand the importance of underwater h...
The mid-19th century saw the beginning of clay extraction between Verd and Sinja Gorica near Vrhnika for the production of brick along the Ljubljanica River. Demand for construction material rose following the earthquake in Ljubljana in 1895, and the Austrian authorities even constructed a new rail line for the loading and transport of brick for Lj...
Slovenia boasts an extraordinary number of logboat finds, most of them on the Ljubljansko barje.
Through long millennia and up to the very recent past, logboats represented an irreplaceable means of
transport in water landscapes, primarily lakes, rivers and flooded moors, where people could navigate
a small and agile boat with passengers and their...
Abstract: a very well preserved sword with the remains of its scabbard was found in 2008 by
chance in the riverbed of the Lahinja above the pond of the former Flek’s mill (Flekov mlin in
Slovenian) at Črnomelj. It belongs to Type XIIa and dates to the Late Middle Ages, more precisely
to the second half of the 13th or the 14th century. The area of t...
Slovenia boasts an immensely rich cultural heritage in watery environments. This heritage includes nds from the river Ljubljanica and the pile-dwelling sites on the Ljubljansko barje, which even attained world renown. It is therefore no coincidence that the investigation of underwater archaeological sites enjoys one of if not the longest tradition...
An oak logboat was found in 1989 in the gravel deposit of the river Mura near Hotiza. Radiocarbon analyses date the vessel to the end of the 7th or beginning of the 6th millennium BC, which allows us to set it into the Late Mesolithic in spite of the lack of archaeological finds speaking of the contemporary settlement in the area. It represents a f...
For centuries, Ptuj with its attractions was bringing numerous landscape artists to thetown. The paintings thus created and depicting Ptuj at its loveliest with the river Drava, the old town centre and castle perched over it, also included a bridge. The actual bridge connecting theold town centre at Dravska ulica on the left bank to Zgornji breg an...
Abstract:
Slovenia boasts an extraordinary number of logboat nds, most of them on the Ljubljansko barje. Through long millennia and up to the very recent past, logboats represented an irreplaceable means of transport in water landscapes, primarily lakes, rivers and flooded moors, where people could navigatea small and agile boat with passengers a...
In September 2008, underwater archaeologists discovered a pointed wooden object in the Ljubljanica River near Sinja Gorica in Ljubljansko barje (Ljubljana Moor). Its shape is reminiscent of Palaeolithic leaf-shaped stone and bone points. wo wood samples were dated using the AMS
14
C method. Te first gave an age of >43,970 years, while a repeat me...
The advantages of 3D technologies (3D digitisation, visualisation, 3D printing...) are recognised by various pro-fessions in the field of cultural heritage (CH). Today these technologies have been technologically improved to the point that allows them to be merged for different purposes. The paper presents projects related to the successful combini...
The contents of this contribution form part of a widely conceived research of the Archaeologyand Hydropower Plants on the Lower Sava project concerning a roughly 30 km long sectionof the lower reaches of the river Sava in Slovenia between Brestanica and the state border withCroatia, which was conducted by the Institute for Protection of Cultural He...
The article presents the underwater archaeological research of the Mesolithic site in the bed of the Ljubija Stream at the western edge of the Ljubljansko barje. The finds include stone artefacts, antler axes, bone tools and projectiles, a human cranium, animal bones and remains of wooden and stone structures, which were attributed to the 9th mille...
Contribution to the history of development of 3D photogrammetry underwater:
Amasing!! I found my lecture about first 3D photogrammetry research on underwater archaeological site in Adriatic from far 2001. This was made exactely 15 years ago! It is available now for history of underwater 3D photogrammetry developing :-)
Archaeological survey in the chora of the 4th c. B. C. Parian colony of Pharos on the island of Hvar in Central Dalmatia (Croatia) has by now a respectable history and has gone through different phases. Started in 1981/82 as a small scale venture among friends and colleagues, upon invitation by Branko Kirigin of the Archaeological Museum in Split a...
This article deals with an underwater site in the Savinja River near Celje. Numerous objects ranging in date from the UrnfieldCulture period to the recent past were discovered during regulationsof the river bed. Of particular interest was a find of Norican silver coins, evaluated as including at least 10,000 coins. Particular attention was paid to...