Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Pre and Proto Historic Landscapes in Srilanka

3D Computer graphics and advanced media technologies have long been used to preserve or virtually visualize cultural heritage sites. While a number of research work on preservation and virtual reconstructions of archeological sites in Europe and Egypt, less effort has been spent on introducing new technologies to visualize and preserve cultural heritage sites in some other regions of the world like south Asia. This research presents a case study focused on the virtual visualization and simulation of pre and proto historic landscapes in Sri Lanka. The transition between prehistory and protohistory of Sri Lanka is not precisely clear, that would have occurred in the mid or late Holocene. Recently, archeological researchers have focused on the proto historic culture of the Uda Walave River Basin in Sri Lanka. This area has identified as an environmentally optimal area apt to probe the question of pre and proto historic transition in Sri Lanka. The main goal of this paper is to visualize and virtually reconstruct pre and proto historic culture in the Uda Walave River Basin; based on recent archeological data and findings.