We are developing a web site with photorealistic animations and virtual reality walkthroughs of architecture and artifacts at an archaeological site in El Salvador to support research and teaching about household anthropology in sixth-century Meso-America. To counter the false sense of realism and truth these experiences often convey we have developed Image Arguments, a scheme for integrating with images the arguments and data that they are based on. We provide this contextual information using a server side database and client side Java applets, enabling viewers to examine the assumptions and the data behind the images.

Ceren, PlaceMaker