New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection
Title | New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection PDF eBook |
Author | James Bonsall |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2019-09-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789693071 |
This volume presents over 90 papers from the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 2019, Sligo. Papers address archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, reflecting current and global trends in archaeological prospection.
Archaeological Prospection
Title | Archaeological Prospection PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Doneus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Archaeological Prospection is a fascinating discipline using High-Tech instrumentation for the non-destructive localisation and documentation of archaeological sites and monuments. The book of abstracts of the fourth international conference on Archaeological Prospection held in Vienna in 2001 provides an overview over state of the art methodology, techniques and applications from all over the world. Satellite imagery, airborne remote sensing and aerial archaeology as well as geophysical prospecting (magnetics, resistivity survey, ground penetrating radar etc.) help the archaeologist to monitor and search whole landscapes, to detect new sites and to map their inner details with high accuracy. The prospection data is used for visualisations of our archaeological heritage buried in the ground. New spectacular prospection results including recently detected Chinese imperial palace sites, new insights into the surroundings of Egyptian pyramids and towns, Roman towns and villas and mysterious circular ditch systems from the Neolithic are reported by the worlds leading prospecting archaeologists and geophysicists.
Landscapes Revealed
Title | Landscapes Revealed PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Brend |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2020-09-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789255074 |
Winner, Current Archaeology 2023 Book of the Year 2023 This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a program of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesize the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artifact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
AP2017: 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection
Title | AP2017: 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Jennings |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2017-09-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784916781 |
The Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection draws together over 100 papers addressing archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from around the world.
Archaeological Prospecting and Remote Sensing
Title | Archaeological Prospecting and Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Irwin Scollar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 1990-11-29 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780521320504 |
First published in 1990, Archaeological Prospecting and Remote Sensing surveys some of the highly ingenious non-destructive methods for detecting and mapping remains of ancient cultures that have vanished from the modern surface. Techniques include low-level air photography, magnetic, thermal, electric, and electromagnetic geophysical prospecting. A mathematical analysis of the phenomena and measurements is given together with the techniques for interpretation of results using computerized image processing. Archaeological prospecting used with image processing has emerged as a universal tool. The aim is to build a visual geographic system available for use by conservationists, historians and scientists alike. The team of authors comprises an archaeologist, two geophysicists and an applied mathematician who have collaborated to produce a book of immense value in this innovative field of study.
Archaeology and Geomatics
Title | Archaeology and Geomatics PDF eBook |
Author | Victorino Mayoral Herrera |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9789088904530 |
Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology
Title | Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Campana |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 020388955X |
SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in ArchaeologyGeophysics for Landscape Archaeology (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the worlds greatest experts in the field of archaeological prospection, the