University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health 2015 Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites Erich C. Fisher Arizona State University Derya Akkaynak Massachusetts nI stitute of Technology Jacob Harris Arizona State University Andy I.R Herries La Trobe University Zenobia Jacobs University of Wollongong,
[email protected] See next page for additional authors Publication Details Fisher, E. C., Akkaynak, D., Harris, J., Herries, A. I.R., Jacobs, Z., Karkanas, P., Marean, C. W. & Mcgrath, J. R. (2015). Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science, 57 380-394. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites Abstract Using a conventional, off-the-shelf digital single lens reflex camera and flashes, we were able to create high- resolution panoramas of stratigraphic profiles ranging from a single meter to over 5 m in both height and width at the Middle Stone Age site of PP5-6 at Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, South Africa. The final photomosaics are isoluminant, rectilinear, and have a pixel spatial resolution of 1 mm. Furthermore, we systematically color-corrected the raw imagery. This process standardized the colors seen across the photomosaics while also creating reproducible and meaningful colors for relative colorimetric analysis between photomosiacs.