Working alongside an academic team of archaeologists for the duration of an excavation of a viking workshop on the Faroe Islands, ArchaeoFX produced visualisations to see if this helped the team to make decisions such as where and how to excavate.

It was believed that this approach had not been attempted previously in either academic or commercial archaeology. The closest parallel is with the TV programme Time Team, where due to the strict time limit imposed by the programme’s format, computer visualisation is far more integral to the decision making

Aside from attempting to improve the way archaeologists excavate a site, this project also provided the archaeologists with a powerful way of demonstrating to the public what was being excavated.

The role archaeology has bringing communities together has in recent years become increasingly apparent to both archaeologists and to funding bodies; much recent funding has been granted to projects that include a way to achieve this.

For the visualisation images produced on site over the summer, please click here.

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