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Remote Sensing and Archaeology

Remote Sensing and Archaeology. Roads, footpaths, and canals: travel and movement in past cultures. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia. Greek colony of Metapontum. Roadways in Chaco Canyon, NM.

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Remote Sensing and Archaeology

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  1. Remote Sensing and Archaeology Roads, footpaths, and canals:travel and movement in past cultures

  2. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia

  3. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia

  4. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia

  5. ‘Hollow Ways’ in Mesopotamia

  6. Greek colony of Metapontum

  7. Roadways in Chaco Canyon, NM

  8. Roadways in Chaco Canyon

  9. Path Network in Arena, Costa Rica

  10. Angkor Wat, Cambodia

  11. Angkor Wat, Cambodia

  12. The ‘lost city’ of Ubar

  13. Bibliography Altaweel, Mark. “The Use of ASTER Satellite Imagery in Archaeological Contexts.” Archaeological Prospection 12 (2005), 151-166. Ur, Jason. “CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study.” Antiquity Vol. 77 No. 295 (2003), 102-115. Masini, Nicola and Lasaponara, Rosa. “Satellite-based recognition of landscape archaeological features related to ancient human transformation.” Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 3 (2006), 230-235. Sever, Thomas and Wagner, David. “Analysis of prehistoric roadways in Chaco Canyon using remotely sensed digital data.” In Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. Ed. by Charles Trombold. Cambridge University Press, 2011. pp. 42-52. http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/chaco_compare.html Sheets, Payson and Sever, Thomas. “Prehistoric footpaths in Costa Rica: transportation and communication in a tropical rainforest.” In Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. Ed. by Charles Trombold. Cambridge University Press, 2011. pp. 53-65. See also: Sheets & Sever. “Creating and Perpetuating Social Memory Across the Ancient Costa Rican Landscape.” In Remote Sensing in Archaeology. Ed. by James Wiseman and Farouk El-Baz. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer Publications (2007), pp. 161-184. http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/arenal.html Moore, Elizabeth; Freeman, Tony; and Hensley, Scott. “Spaceborne and Airborne Radar at Angkor: Introducing New Technology to the Ancient Site.” In Remote Sensing in Archaeology. Ed. by James Wiseman and Farouk El-Baz. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer Publications (2007), pp. 185-216. Blom, Ronald G. et al. “Southern Arabian Desert Trade Routes, Frankincense, Myrrh, and the Ubar Legend.” In Remote Sensing in Archaeology. Ed. by James Wiseman and Farouk El-Baz. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer Publications (2007), pp. 71-87. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/gallery/ http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/cdrom/sirced03/cdrom/DATA/LOCATION/ASIAMIDE/UBAR/UBARCOMP.HTM Also, on remote sensing in archaeology generally: http://populararchaeologydiscovery.presspublisher.us/issue/2012-edition/article/archaeology-s-new-frontier

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