Digitally preserving a submerged Bronze Age city

The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project

Dr. Jon Henderson (University of Nottingham)

Digital Past 2012, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales

• Pavlopetri Pausanias – the island of Elaphonisos had been a peninsula in classical timesAdmiralty Pilot – evidence that the isthmus had not been breached until the seventeenth century AD

Pavlopetri UnderwaterArchaeology Project

2009-2013

2010 plan of the submerged town at

Pavlopetri

The earliest evidence for occupation at the site dates to the Final Neolithic c. 3500 BC.

Pithos burial 2009

Pithos burial 2011

Total Station surveywith data-logging software

The scanner and turntable (left) and with object, gripper, and computer (right).

Next Engine Desktop 3D Scanner

Kongsberg-Mesotech MS 1000 Sector Scan Sonar

100 metre scan

Building IX40 metre scan

Building IX30 metre scan

Building IX20 metre scan

Building IX15 metre scan

Building IX7.5 metre scan

Building IX5 metre scan

Building IX50 metre scan

Building IX30 metre scan

Building IX20 metre scan

Building IX15 metre scan

Building IX10 metre scan

Building IX5 metre scan

15 metre scan

10 metre scan

5 metre scan