GB2273468A

GB2273468A - Decoding information on archaelogical carvings or artifacts

Info

Publication number: GB2273468A
Application number: GB9226557A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Maurice Michael Cotterell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1992-12-21
Filing date: 1992-12-21
Publication date: 1994-06-22
Also published as: MX9300820A; GB9226557D0

Abstract

A process which enables the release of obfuscate information contained in certain archaeologiocal carvings/artifacts commensurate with the intent of the designer or creator of the carving/artifact and which otherwise could not be revealed under normal examination of the carving/artifact comprises making a representation of the carving or artifact e.g. by drawing or through the use of photographs, computers, light generation or holograms and orienting one representation with respect to another representation having the same image. <IMAGE>

Description

ARCHAEOLOGICAL CARVING/ARTIFACT INFORMATION DECODING PROCESS This invention relates to an Archaeological Carving/Artifact Information Decoding Process.

Ancient Civilisations in Central and South America carved pictures onto impressionable materials such as Rock, Wood and Clay and similarly carved and sculpted artifacts out of Rock, wood or clay. Such carvings and/or artifacts appear to convey amounts of information to the beholder. Certain carvings and/or artifacts contain much more coherent information than can be interpreted using conventional methods of interpretation.This Archaeological carving/artifact Information Decoding Process enables at least 50 per cent more coherent information to be extracted from such carvings/artifacts than can be obtained without recourse to the process on certain carvings/artifacts where it can be seen that the original intention of the writer carver or sculpter was to convey such additional information in the normal course of representations but which was intentionally concealed at the time the carving/artifact was produced from conventional examinations and investigations.

THE PROCESS In order to decode the true meaning which the creator or designer of the carving/artifact intended it is first necessary to make a line drawing of the Archaeological item. A translucent facsimile is then made of the original line drawing. The translucent facsimile is then placed on top of the line drawing and manouevered in such a manner as to enable the appearance of a composite design or picture that can be sensed by the beholder such that designs instructions or additional information intended by the producer to be sensed in this way and using this process becomes visually apparent by way of a composite design commensurate with contemporary historic or prehistoric archaeological interpretation in regard to historical associations of the revealed composite representations.

A specific embodiment of the Process will now be described by way of example that refers to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1.

THE FIRST STEP in the process is to obtain or make a line drawing of the Archaelogical carving/artifact.

Figure 1 shows an example using a line drawing of a Central American artifict from the period around 700A.D.

Figure 2 shows a scaled translucent facsimile of the line drawing used in Figure 1 representing the second step to the process.

Figure 3 shows a composite design representation enabled by the placing of the translucent facsimile on top of the line drawing so as to reveal additional information which was intended to be conveyed to the beholder by the designer or creator of the carving/artifact by reorientation of the line drawing and the translucent facsimile positions in respect to their original ostensible juxtaposed orientation. It is not necessary to colour these new designs in the process but colouration may add to recognition.This composite representation is recognisable within contemporaneous, historic or prehistoric archaeological understanding, Figure 4 serves as an example to confirm this in the example provided devolved from the line drawing in Figure 1.

The method of decoding is not obvious.

Referring to the line drawing in Figure 1. The line drawing is a recognisable two dimensional representation of the original carving/artifact.

The translucent facsimile of the line drawing referred to in Figure 2 comprises of a machine made photocopy of the line drawing where the photocopy has been printed to scale onto translucent material commonly used for such purposes.

Claims

1. A line drawing as proposed in the description includes any enhanced and visibly recognisable representation of the original carving/ artifact and could include representations made through or from or by photographic processess or computer generated or light generated or hologram generated representations such that in the final analysis the decoding intent of the creator becomes apparent through variously juxtaposed orientations of the data sets that represent representations of the original carving/artifact.

2. A translucent facsimile of the orignal line drawing as claimed in 1 includes facsimilies produced through any method mentioned in 1.

3. The orientation of line drawing in 1 and translucent facsimile in 2 refers to any percentage of one overlaying upon the other such that any composite portion may be detected as depicting information as was the intent of the creator to convey pictorially or otherwise at the time the carving or artifact was created.

4. The scale of the line drawing and translucent facsimile in claims 1,2 and 3 need not be coincident providing the process decribed yields information as was the intent of the designer/producer to convey.

Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows 1. A line drawing of an encoded archaeological design, picture or pattern and a translucent facsimile thereof such that, when the said facsimile is invertedly superimposed on the drawing with the respective designs, pictures or patterns disposed at different orientations to one another or displaced one with respect to the other, a decoded design, picture or pattern becomes apparent.

2. A line drawing of an encoded archaeological design, picture or pattern and produced by means of a photographic process or by computer generation, light generation or hologram generation, for use in the preparation of a translucent facsimile thereof.

3. A line drawing and a translucent facsimile thereof according to claim 1, in which selected elements, areas or zones of the drawing and corresponding elements, areas or zones of the translucent facsimile are coloured or shaded to assist in definition in or recognition of the decoded design, picture or pattern.

4. A line drawing/translucent facsimile thereof according to claim 1 or claim 3 or a line drawing according to claim 2, in which said line drawing is formed on a translucent substrate.

5. A methoditreating an encoded archaeological design, picture or pattern for decoding or elucidation purposes, the method comprising preparing a line drawing of the said design, picture or pattern or a facsimile thereof on a translucent substrate, inverting said facsimile and superimposing it over said line drawing with the respective designs, pictures or patterns disposed at different orientations to one another or displaced one with respect to the other, and scanning the superimposed designs, pictures or patterns to identify elements of resultant new designs, pictures or patterns which serve to interpret the encoded design, picture or pattern.

6. A method according to claim 5, including the step of selectively colouring or shading elements, areas or zones of the said line drawing and facsimile before the superimposition of the facsimile on the line drawing.

7. A line drawing and facsimile thereof, substantially as hereinbefore described.

8. A method of decoding an archaeological carving or artefact, substantially as hereinbefore described.