Developing Future Practice

by R. H. Bewley (Editor), W. Raczkowski (Editor)

Overview

Not attempts to find prehistoric artifacts in the atmosphere, but the use of aerial photography to aid investigations on the ground, was the topic of the November 2000 NATO workshop in Lezno, Poland. The 35 papers cover whether lessons have been learned over the past 100 years, achievements toward understanding archaeological landscapes, opening up new landscapes, future technological applications, heritage management, and whether a meta-aerial archaeology is necessary to clarify the relationship between technology and philosophy. Included are 111 color plates, but no index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586031848
Publisher:	IOS Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	NATO Science Series
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	9.64(w) x 6.52(h) x 1.07(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
	Past Achievements and Prospects for the Future Development of Aerial Archaeology: An Introduction	1
Section 1	Have Lessons Been Learnt?
	Aerial Survey: Learning from a Hundred Years of Experience?	11
	Goodbye Cold War! Goodbye Bureaucracy? Opening the Skies to Aerial Archaeology in Europe	19
	A Neglected Asset. German Aerial Photography of the Second World War Period	23
Section 2	Achievements of Twentieth Century: Towards Understanding Archaeological Landscapes
Section 2.1	Landscapes Ripe for Aerial Survey
	Aerial Archaeology in the Middle East: The Role of the Military - Past, Present and... Future?	33
	Hidden Potential: The Possibilities of Plough-Levelled Landscapes	49
	The Landscapes of Scotland: Aerial Survey, Archaeology and GIS	59
	Aerial Archaeology in Bohemia at the Turn of the Twenty First Century: Integration of Landscape Studies and Non-Destructive Archaeology	68
	Flemisch Aerial Archaeology in the Last 20 Years: Past and Future Perspectives	76
	Aerial Photography of Deux-Sevres, Poitou-Charentes, France: Results and Interaction between Detected Settlements and Geology	84
	Some New Results from the Very Dry Summer of 2000	89
Section 2.2	Opening up New Landscapes
	Aerial Archaeology in Extreme Environmental Conditions: Slovenia	95
	The Blackwater Estuary, England: Air Photography and the Inter-Tidal Zone	105
	Recent Aerial Survey in Western Transylvania: Problems and Potential	109
	A Post Medieval Dockyard in Ventspils (Latvia): From the Air, in the Ground and Underwater	116
	Application of GIS and Aerial Photography in the South of Russia: A Case Study of the Kislovodsk Basin	122
	Surface Processes: Obstacles in Aerial Archaeology, Examples from Turkey	126
	Aerial Photography and Early Modern Woodland Management in the Pindos Mountains, NW Greece	134
	Prospects for Aerial Survey in Armenia	140
Section 3	Technological Applications: Looking to the Future
	Integrated Archaeological Interpretation of Combined Prospection Data, Zwingendorf (Austria)--A Case Study	149
	Making Things Look Vertical	166
	High-Resolution Digital Airborne Mapping and Archaeology	173
	Airborne High-Resolution Digital, Visible, Infra-Red and Thermal Sensing for Archaeology	181
	GIS, Aerial Photographs and Microtopography in Archaeology: Methods and Applications	196
	Satellite Imagery for Archaeological Applications: A Case Study from the Orontes Valley, Syria	211
	The Use of Satellite Imagery for the Transcription of Oblique Aerial Photographs	224
	Geophysical Verification of Aerial Discoveries of Archaeological sites: Examples from Poland	233
	Mapping and Visualization in the Institute of Archaeology, Nitra, Slovakia	241
Section 4	Past for the Future: Heritage Management
	Approaches to Aerial Survey and Heritage Management in Wales	247
	Understanding Salisbury Plain, England: Analysis of the Aerial Evidence	256
	The Use of Aerial Photographs for the Survey of Archaeological Earthworks	262
	The Role of Aerial Photographs in National Strategic Programmes: Assessing Recent Military Sites in England	269
	Archaeological Heritage Management in the Information Age: GIS Applications and Air Photography Processing in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland)	283
	Aerial Reconnaissance in the North of England	291
	Air Photo Interpretation and Mapping to Guide Fieldwork in Commercial Archaeology in England	299
Section 5	Technology vs Philosophy?: Some Thoughts
	Beyond the Technology: Do We Need 'Meta-Aerial Archaeology'?	311
	Resolutions	328
	List of contributors	331
	Author Index	337
	Colour Plates	338