The Qumran Digital Model

[...] it may be worthwhile to approach the question of archaeological evidence for a religious community at Qumran from a different angle. [...] it should be asked: does the elimination of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the context of Qumran necessarily mandate the automatic exclusion of a religiously mi...

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Published in:Near Eastern archaeology 2009-03, Vol.72 (1), p.28
Main Author: Cargill, Robert R
Format: Article
Language:English
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Archaeology
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Summary:[...] it may be worthwhile to approach the question of archaeological evidence for a religious community at Qumran from a different angle. [...] it should be asked: does the elimination of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the context of Qumran necessarily mandate the automatic exclusion of a religiously minded communal group inhabiting the site during its later phases? At UCLA, in collaboration with William Schniedewind and Aaron Burke, I sought to apply these advances in digital modeling to field archaeology in order to develop a methodology for using digital modeling to test various archaeological reconstructions of sites with disputed interpretations. [...] the end product was a three-dimensional model that could also be navigated by end users in real time.
ISSN:1094-2076
2325-5404