The gravestones crowding the island, demarcating cemeteries, built into thewalls of mills and pathways, or emerging in the middle of a field of sugarcane, do muchmore than record the names of wealthy British families who made Barbados ‘home’

here is also an impact on cemeteries, churchyards, andhistorical societies, many of whom rely on the funds raised byselling photo rights/licenses, historical records and genealogicalservices.

nitiatives such as Camp’s (2017) experimentswith augmented reality to connect historical records and narrativesto a local cemetery, and Dundee Howff Conservation Group’s (2017)open 3D models of monuments, demonstrate growing creativityand innovation in cemetery preservation and heritage practice.

Mostprograms offer no courses that teachpractical skills in digital archaeology

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Cutting-edgevisualization practice is reported in professional conferences such as the internationally renowned2and3D Photography conference hosted by Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands in cooperation withthe Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography in the United Kingdom. For example,in 2021 Kurt Heumiller discussed his work with the Museum of Modern Art in capturing VanGogh’s Starry Night in 3D.

A burgeoning practice within digital heritage also emphasizes the creation of interpretive ma-terials, the curation and documentation of objects, and the examination of the digital receptionof heritage, particularly through social media

anasi (2020) further provides a usefulsnapshot of the discourse and distribution of degree programs in digital archaeology and the differ-ences between disciplinary categorization in North America and Europe.