Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
Open Archaeology invites manuscripts for the Topical Issue on Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
This Topical Issue will focus on digital approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples, and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres of life. We particularly welcome contributions with a strong methodological focus on computational developments, digitisation processes and spatial analysis. Although the main focus of the issue is the Mediterranean region, we also warmly welcome relevant contributions from colleagues working in other areas of the world, with a view to stimulating wider methodological dialogues and comparative approaches. The chronological range is also open, ranging from prehistory to the recent past, and including cultural heritage management.
In particular, we welcome archaeological, art-historical, anthropological, ethnographic, historical, computational, cultural heritage or inter-disciplinary contributions dealing with:
(1) inter- and intra-site Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches and spatial statistics and modelling of ritual space and/or its associated material assemblages,
(2) digitisation and virtual reconstruction of ritual space and/or its associated material assemblages,
(3) remote sensing\aerial\satellite approaches to ritual space,
(4) other computational methods and developments (e.g. space syntax and 3D modelling) applied to ritual space and/or its associated material assemblages,
(5) digital approaches to culture heritage management and culture heritage studies of ritual space and/or its associated material assemblages,
(7) digital approaches to phenomenological, performative and experiential analyses related to ritual space and/or its associated material assemblages.