putting archaeology online - "virtual tudors"

The high value ship, The Mary Rose, has formed an online source for getting to know the  period and place from which it comes.

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A skull, the team add, can offer a number of insights. "You can estimate the sex of an individual, you can estimate the ancestry of an individual and you can certainly diagnose the pathology of an individual: things like scurvy and a number of other conditions," said Nick Owen, a sport and exercise biomechanist also from Swansea University.

At the heart of the project is a technique known as photogrammetry. For each of the skulls, around 120 high resolution photographs were painstakingly taken from many different angles, with the in-focus sections digitally stitched together to produce the final, state-of-the-art, 3D models.

[full story] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/05/new-mary-rose-website-to-help-public-and-scientists-unravel-wrecks-mysteries

[project online], http://www.virtualtudors.org/