Yu Zhou
Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
E-mail: zhouyu1@rambler.ru
Keywords: China, digital archaeology, digital technologies, cultural heritage, objects of material culture.
The article discusses the Chinese experience of integrating digital technologies into the field of archaeological practice and research. This is the first attempt to systematize the activities of Chinese scientists within the framework of the Digital Dunhuang project and to trace the transformation of the tasks and the content of digitalizing the cultural heritage. The study also suggests a complex consideration of a number of latest initiatives aimed at implementing the results of the ongoing Dunhuang art digitization and may indicate current trends in the development of digital archaeology in China in general. Based on the analysis, the study concludes that the outcomes of the Digital Dunhuang project are highly demanded in solving a wide range of tasks and are currently being implemented in a number of projects that have their own independent significance and relate to various fields of knowledge. Based on the case of the Digital Dunhuang initiative, the study reveals the overlapping among the practices, methods and objectives of digital archaeology and digital presentation and restoration activities in China.
DOI: 10.7868/S3034577426010131
