Preserving Libraries in the Sand
Interdisciplinary partners at UC San Diego are using drones and 3D-modeling to save Puerto Rico’s indigenous history from the sea. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in late 2018, Eric Lo, an [...]
Technology at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Unlock Mysteries of the Earliest Americans
With help from technology developed by UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute, a team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico have made unprecedented archaeological discoveries in some [...]
America’s oldest ocher mine discovered in Quintana Roo
Tulum, Q. Roo.- The labyrinthine subsurface of the Yucatan peninsula continues to be the source of scientific discoveries. The most recent one is found in a flooded cave in Quintana Roo, where [...]
Update from the Field: Search for Leonardo’s Lost Painting to Continue for Several Weeks
December 5, 2012 — [NOTE: The following is a statement from The City of Florence and the National Geographic Society (NGS) about recent progress made by UC San Diego researcher Maurizio [...]
International House Students Express Interest in Cultural Heritage
October 24, 2012 — When members of UC San Diego’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) participated in a program for over 100 graduate and [...]
Undergraduate Study Cultural Heritage During Summer Internships
May 12, 2013 — The Calit2 Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) and its NSF IGERT program in engineering for cultural heritage will provide [...]
Cultural Heritage Center at UC San Diego Celebrates 5th Anniversary
June 15, 2012 — Five years on, a research center at the University of California, San Diego focused on technology and cultural heritage has become an important player in efforts to study, [...]
Qualcomm Institute’s Ashley Richter Wins Interdisciplinary Research Award
April 22, 2013 — Archaeological Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Ashley M. Richter has won an Interdisciplinary Research Award from the University of California, San Diego’s Office of Graduate [...]
Researchers in Florence Explore New Ways to Search for Lost Leonardo Mural
May 18, 2012 — In 1505 Leonardo da Vinci began painting a mural – to commemorate the Battle of Anghiari – in the Palazzo Vecchio’s Great Hall, the seat of government in Renaissance [...]