Sponsored by the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
Grant number: HAA-269032-20
Ball State's Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) and the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) have created a web-based virtual world that interprets the earthworks in their era of construction. The sky is simulated with accurate celestial bodies using data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to allow users to view the moon and sun as they appeared almost 2000 years ago. The project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities.
The project is a collaboration between Ball State, The Works and the Ohio History Connection, with support and partnership from several federally recognized American Indian tribes, including the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Shawnee Tribe.
CREDITS
IDIA Lab: John Fillwalk, Neil Zehr, Trevor Danehy, Adam Kobitz, Ina-Marie JohnstonVisit the Newark Earthwork Web Map