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While the Keweenaw Time Traveler Team have been busy planning future public events, we have also continued doing scholarly research using the Time Traveler. Team member Dan Trepal, writing with co-authors and fellow team members Don Lafreniere and Tim Stone, have published a paper in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, part of a special issue on ‘Spatial Computation in Archaeology and History.’ Our paper demonstrates how the Time Traveler team uses historical spatial data to aid in archaeological research. Using case study projects undertaken by MTU researchers in places like Calumet and at the Quincy Smelter in Ripley, we explain how our detailed and layered representations of past landscapes can benefit archaeologists working in the Copper Country in several ways. These include: using the historical data in the Time Traveler to help plan fieldwork and contextualize discoveries at specific locations such as the site of a Chinese Laundry in Calumet; visually combining multiple historical maps, blueprints, and aerial photos to guide remote sensing investigations at the Quincy Copper Smelter looking for buried structures within the complex; and modeling past industrial pollution generation to identify the highest-risk neighborhoods in the Calumet-Laurium area a century ago. The paper has been published electronically and is available here.
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Senior Time Traveler Gary Spikberg has been developing an augmented reality application that utilizes Keweenaw Time Traveler datasets and maps to support industrial heritage interpretation around the Keweenaw. This week he tested the first beta version of the app with MTU students in Dr. Rouleau's History of the Copper Country class.
The demo was conducted in at the Champion #4 mine in Painesdale. Thank you to Painesdale Mine and Shaft Inc. for giving us and the students access to their amazing site.
The demo was conducted in at the Champion #4 mine in Painesdale. Thank you to Painesdale Mine and Shaft Inc. for giving us and the students access to their amazing site.
