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All who come to the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace keenly experience the controlling force the landscape exercises over the sacred environment. In our current research, therefore, we privilege the complex terrain as a key determinant in the construction of sacred space and ritual experience ; we focus on the significance of connective spaces and passages joining key regions of the Sanctuary ; and we recognize the interplay of local and imported construction materials as a vital component in the economic, political, and design network of the Sanctuary. In this seminar, we present how our recent work in petrography, archaeology, and 3D modeling have helped to reshape our understanding of the Sanctuary.


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Bonna Wescoat is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University and Director of Excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Greece (D.Phil. Oxford 1983). Her primary research interests center on architecture and sacred experience in ancient Greece, investigated through excavation, 3D digital modeling, architectural reconstruction, and experimental archaeology. Cf. [ Ссылка ] ; [ Ссылка ].


William Size is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His main interests are petrography, geochemistry and structural geology. Cf. [ Ссылка ].


Ian Burr is visual design specialist in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Many of his projects involve 3D modeling historic sites for the purposes of pedagogy, research, and cultural posterity. Cf. [ Ссылка ].


Arya Basu is visual information specialist in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. He researches and explores new methods of visualizing data, including 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Cf. [ Ссылка ].



The seminar of Historical Geography and Geoarchaeology is organised by Anca Dan (AOROC) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris: [ Ссылка ].

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