Automatic Point-cloud Surveys in Prehistoric Site Documentation and Modelling

This paper describes research related to multi-scale measurement and documenting of any spatial objects or spatially-linked information, covering, but not limited to: Cultural artifacts Prehistoric sites Archaeological Landscapes The aim is providing the practitioners of Human Sciences with quality-controlled metric and geometric descriptions of any material elements concerning their disciplines. The starting point of this paper is a brief reference to some previous works participated by any of the authors, and several geodetic, cartographic and GIS works, together with 3D modelling of graves and petroglyphs. Some study cases out of the authors ´ current research are then presented, describing and evaluating methodologies applied in each work. In most of these study cases research and education were combined, the works having been done by students directed by the research authors, using the new teaching methods like project