Nuovi dati dalla modellazione 3D delle sepolture dell’età del Ferro della necropoli del Piovego (PD)

3D models are often employed in archaeology for different purposes like research, restoration and valorization. The goal of this research, carried out at the University of Padua, is to define and apply a methodology to create morphometrically accurate 3D models of the burials of the sample with the respective grave goods. The burials of the sample are 3, they are all cremations from the necropolis of Piovego, an Iron Age necropolis of the ancient Padua (Italy), that was used between the end of the sixth century BC until the beginning of the fourth century BC. For this research were used both 3D modeling and 3D scanning techniques to obtain the digital 3D models of the grave goods and the objects in perishable material. Every single model thus obtained was placed in a digital environment that replicated the burial to which it belonged. In this way the spatial relationships between all objects were verified in three dimensions; in cases where anomalous intersections have occurred, different positions have been reassigned. These 3D reconstructions have shown to have a good informative potential since they made it possible to evaluate the correct topological position of the objects and to make visible the shape and appearance of the elements in perishable material that are rarely present in the archaeological record.