Digitizing Archaeological Collections from Mongolia's High Altai Region

FAIN: PM-50005-07

University of Oregon (Eugene, OR 97403-5219)
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer (Project Director: July 2006 to February 2010)

The creation of a Web site and a printed atlas on the archaeology and early history of the Mongolian High Altai.

Our project, ?Archaeology and the Landscape in Mongolia?s High Altai: Inventory and Documentation? is dedicated to the creation of two reference resources??an interactive, geospatial, and photographic website and a published Cultural Atlas??that would support the preservation of the prehistoric art and cultural heritage of a remarkable part of Mongolia. The interactive website will allow scholars and cultural resource managers to create local and regional mapping of any surface archaeology, to consider the cultural and historical implications of monument distribution within the landscape and in relationship to physical features of the landscape. The Cultural Atlas of the Ancient Mongolian Altai will develop and display the geospatial and photographic materials of the Inventory in an extensively narrated hard copy for the use of scholars and others interested in broad questions of cultural remains and their relationship to a mountainous landscape.

Associated Products

Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia (Web Resource)
Title: Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
Author: James E. Meacham
Author: Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Abstract: Website for the project, including interactive map and archaeological resources photographed in situ.
Year: 2009
Primary URL: http://mongolianaltai.uoregon.edu/theproject.php

Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: an Atlas (Book)
Title: Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: an Atlas
Author: Gary Tepfer
Author: Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Author: James E. Meacham
Abstract: Atlas covering the surface archaeology and landscape of an area in Bayan Ölgiy aimag, in northwestern Mongolia, of approximately 22,000 sq. km Many photographs and maps as well as a list of place names.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/archaeology-and-landscape-in-the-mongolian-altai-an-atlas/oclc/837474484&referer=brief_results
Publisher: ESRI Press
Type: Other
ISBN: 978-1-58948-23
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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