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#500CharAbstracts: S. Krmnicek and K. Körner introduce *Graveler*, a serious game designed for teaching numismatics. By combining playful interaction with structured academic content, students can actively explore coins, their imagery, and historical contexts.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23242

This chapter forms part of a larger volume on Digital Methods of Learning and Teaching in Archaeology, published in 2025: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572

#Numismatics #SeriousGames #Archaeology

#500CharAbstracts: S. Hageneuer presents Archaeogaming as both a research field and a teaching approach. Video games depict the past in influential ways, and archaeologists can learn from them while also teaching students how to engage with games critically.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23241

This chapter forms part of a larger volume on Digital Methods of Learning and Teaching in Archaeology, published in 2025: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.

#Archaeogaming #Archaeology #Teaching

#500CharAbstracts: S. Feuser reflects on immersive and browser-based virtual reality as teaching tools. #VR offers innovative opportunities for archaeological education by creating engaging environments. Yet, issues of cost, technical access, and didactic integration remain challenges.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23240

This chapter forms part of a larger volume on Digital Methods of Learning and Teaching in Archaeology, published in 2025: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.

#Archaeology #DigitalLearning

#500CharAbstracts: Michaela Stark’s chapter explores the integration of serious games and 3D interaction technologies into museums and university teaching. Such tools enhance engagement, learning, and outreach, but also raise questions about sustainability and long-term usability.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23239

This chapter forms part of a larger volume on Digital Methods of Learning and Teaching in Archaeology, published in 2025: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572

#Archaeology #Museums #SeriousGames

#500CharAbstracts: Heike Delitz and Felix Levenson discuss the social significance of great architecture and the sociology of #monumentality. They compare nomadic architecture with medieval cathedrals and the cultic topography of Uruk.

This article is part of a wider book on monumentality in ancient civilisations, published by Transcript in 2019: Size Matters.

#openaccess

🔗 https://www.doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-008

#500CharAbstracts: Federico Buccellati dives into the methodology of monumentality and touches topics of chaîne opératoire, #energetics, organisation, visibility, materiality and the reception of built environments as different ways of understanding monumentality.

This article is part of a broader book about monumentality across ancient civilisations published 2019 at Transcript: Size Matters.
#openaccess

🔗 http://www.doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-004

#500CharAbstracts: 🏺 @ArchaeoBasti & H. Franzmeier show, how to get from excavation data to a #3DReconstruction for an exhibition. They showcase the visualisation with the example of Pi-Ramesse in #Egypt, capital of Ramesses II. This case is especially interesting as the remains of the city are not visible any more. Special strategies were needed to create an aesthetically and educationally sound solution.
The article is available as #openaccess.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/cipeg.2017.1.40326

#500CharAbstracts: Erik Champion explains how video games can help learning in #archaeology.
He asks the question of game mechanics and how these are used. What should a #digitalgame consist of, if it is to teach us something?

This article is part of a broader book about communicating the ancient past 2020 at Ubiquity: Communicating the Past in the Digital Age.

#openaccess 🏺
🔗 http://www.doi.org/10.5334/bch.b

#500CharAbstracts: I discuss how to present archaeological #3DReconstruction to a broader audience and show examples of the past and present. Beside the visually pleasing effects, #scicomm is often neglected.

This article is part of a broader book about communicating the ancient past, published in 2020 at Ubiquity: Communicating the Past in the Digital Age.

@ubiquity
#openaccess

🔗 https://doi.org/10.5334/bch.h

#500CharAbstracts: Catherine Hof takes the cistern of #Resefa in Syria as the focus of monumental research. She sheds light on the intention of the construction, the building process, and its impact on society -> This is #Monumentality by function.

This article is part of a broader book about monumentality across ancient civilisations published 2019 at Transcript: Size Matters.

#openaccess

🔗 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-014

#500CharAbstracts: Heike Delitz and Felix Levenson discuss the social meaning of big architecture and the sociology of #monumentality. They compare nomadic architecture with medieval cathedrals and the cultic topography of Uruk.

This article is part of a broader book about monumentality across ancient civilisations published 2019 at Transcript: Size Matters.

#openaccess

🔗 https://www.doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-008