Google SketchUp and Google Earth

The three dimensional reconstruction of ancient earthworks found on the following pages were created by using  the freeware programs: Google SketchUp8 and Google Earth6. Unlike other modeling software these programs allow any user to create three dimensional models and upload them to their real world geographic settings. In the examples that follow, uploading models into Google Earth allows researchers to visualize the ancient earthworks in their geographic, temporal, and spatial settings.

To view the attached files you will need to download and install Google Sketchup and/or Earth. After installing the programs you can open either view the models directly in SketchUp (.skp file extension). After opening a model in Sketchup you can preview them in Google Earth by selecting the 'preview in Google Earth' tab from the SketchUp file menu, all files have been geo-located.

Download Google SketchUp

Download Google Earth

Screenshot of the Turner earthwork within the Little Miami drainage,

 on the morning of October 3, 2011.

Screenshot of the Hopewell earthwork within the North Fork of Paint Creek Valley, 

looking west on the afternoon on April 10th, 2011.