3D Scanning, Bronze Age Swords, and Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge

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3D Scanning, Bronze Age Swords, and Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge

Date:: Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Time:: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:: Digital Scholarship Commons
Location:: McHenry Library
Categories:: Digital Scholarship Workshop

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Research Presentation by Kristy Golubiewski-Davis, Digital Humanities Librarian, UC Santa Cruz

Come learn about 3D scanning, statistics, and network analysis!

Kristy Golubiewski-Davis will detail her research using 3D scans of Bronze Age swords (~1600-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to visualize the networks of specialized knowledge across space. Digital methods were used to identify the decisions of specialized craft workers and generate social networks that spread knowledge around the world.

This project serves as a case study for thinking about digital project development and management: how can you juggle multiple methods and a large data set while staying focused on building scholarly arguments?

Cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons

Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.