{"id":62437,"date":"2019-02-12T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lowry-pueblo-gets-3d-treatment\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:36:29","slug":"lowry-pueblo-gets-3d-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lowry-pueblo-gets-3d-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry Pueblo gets 3D treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0abf8c1-3c9e-43ce-b8fc-bb9b95bda4a4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0abf8c1-3c9e-43ce-b8fc-bb9b95bda4a4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0abf8c1-3c9e-43ce-b8fc-bb9b95bda4a4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c0abf8c1-3c9e-43ce-b8fc-bb9b95bda4a4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1470\" alt=\"A technician operates a laser scanner that created 3D images of Lowry Pueblo.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A technician operates a laser scanner that created 3D images of Lowry Pueblo.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Bureau of Land Management<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">History Colorado has awarded Ekaterini Vlahos and Michael Nulty, of the University of Colorado Denver, a 2019 Stephen H. Hart Award for their recent work documenting the Lowry Pueblo, a national historic landmark west of Pleasant View off County Road CC.<\/em>The project utilized Light Direction and Ranging (LiDAR) scanning and close-range photogrammetry to thoroughly document the above-ground, standing prehistoric architecture at Lowry Pueblo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyark.org\/projects\/lowry-pueblo-national-historic-landmark\/in-depth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three-dimensional images<\/a> and Historic American Buildings Survey drawings also were created.<\/p>\n<p>The data provides an accurate baseline to monitor deterioration of the pueblo. It also provides the public and students a way to view the ruin without visiting the site.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Vlahos is director of CU Denver\u2019s Center of Preservation and Nulty manages the center\u2019s state-of-the-art digital technology, including interactive website construction, SketchUp 3-D site maps, virtual tours and similar tools.<\/em>Partners included the CU Denver Center of Preservation, Bureau of Land Management, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and CyArk, a nonprofit organization that digitally records and archives the world\u2019s most significant cultural heritage sites.<\/p>\n<p>The Center of Preservation Research is \u201cdedicated to the study, preservation and sustainable use of the built environment and cultural landscapes,\u201d according to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucdenver.edu\/academics\/colleges\/ArchitecturePlanning\/AboutCAP\/ResearchCenters\/CenterPreservationResearch\/About%20CoPR\/Pages\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hart Awards are History Colorado\u2019s premier celebration of archaeology and preservation projects that are worthy of statewide recognition. An awards ceremony was held on Feb. 4 at the History Colorado Center in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The Lowry Pueblo National Historic Landmark is a Puebloan \u201cGreat House\u201d that contains 37 rooms, eight kivas and one Great Kiva. Archaeologists have dated the construction and occupation of the site to the 11th century, about 1,000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers recognized for documentation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[855,829,44,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-62437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-canyon-of-the-ancients-national-monument","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62437"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=62437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}