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Http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ Catalogue | About Us | Publications | Policy + Guidelines | Learning + Teaching | Links | Index Latest news New Interface to ADS Catalogue is in development, allowing for faster and more controlled searches. Archaeological Records of Europe: Network Access Project (ARENA) now on line. Online Access to the Index of Archaeological Investigations (OASIS) pilot study for use ...

Welcome to the GIS Dictionary WARNING: This software is still under development and is liable to change. Please read. This on-line dictionary of GIS terms is brought to you by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography. The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS ...

Aerial Archaeology in Austria. If you are interested in aerial archaeology, taking and archiving aerial photographs, photo-interpretation or mapping and visualizing sites, then you will find these pages useful.

ISSN 1463-5194 GIS Guide to Good Practice edited by Mark Gillings and Alicia Wise with contributions by Mark Gillings, Peter Halls, Gary Lock, Paul Miller, Greg Phillips, Nick Ryan, David Wheatley, and Alicia Wise Acknowledgements Section 1: Aims and objectives 1.1 Why a GIS Guide to Good Practice 1.2 How best to use this Guide 1.3 The thematic sections Section 2: A brief introduction to GIS ...

NASA uses remote sensing for archeology research in the Peten Guatemala, Arenal region of Costa Rica, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.

This homepage provides a focus for information relating to the application of satellite imagery to archaeology. The site includes examples of satellite images of archaeological features and an extensive bibliography ...

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A program package for archaeological statistics and mapping, including seriation, correspondence analysis, clustering, simulation, social status analysis and mapping with extensive graphic display on scanned backgrounds ...

The Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors is the professional body for all those concerned with imaging, recording, surveying or presenting the past.

ISSN 1463-5194 Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data: A Guide to Good Practice Robert Bewley, Danny Donoghue, Vince Gaffney, Martijn van Leusen, and Alicia Wise Acknowledgements Section 1 - Introduction 1.1 Aims and objectives 1.2 Other guides in the series 1.3 How to use this guide Section 2 - Aerial Photography, Remote Sensing, and Archaeology 2.1 Aerial photography and ...

For over twenty years research has been conducted in the applications of remote sensing and GIS in the Burgundy region of France. This long term research project: Applications of Geomatics for Long Term Regional Archaeological Settlement Pattern Analysis is the work of Dr. Scott Madry of Informatics International, Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of ...

Francesca Radcliffe - o 8000 aerial photographs of Dorset archaeology ...

Remote Sensing techniques used by NASA for archeological research.

The Sky's Eyes: Remote Sensing in Archaeology Some would argue that the greatest advancement in archaeology since the shovel is remote sensing, or being able to see an archaeological site without actually excavating it. (If nothing else, it's certainly easier on the lower back.) This type of seeing can take place either from the air or the ground. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), dubbed the red ...

Archaeological Predictive Modelling @ Pictographics Ltd. - Sault Ste Marie, Ontario ...

CAA 2000: Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High-Level Scientific Conferences, HPCF-CT-199-00147. A joint conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (28th annual conference) and the Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Commission IV. April ...

The Archaeological Data Archive The Archaeological Data Archive includes materials of two kinds - Web documents with archaeological data that may be viewed online and files that may be downloaded from the CSA server for inspection on users' machines with the aid of their own software. Any information available via Web documents may also be downloaded in appropriate forms for use on user's ...

Introduction to Aerial Archaeology What is Aerial Archaeology It is common opinion, that an aerial archaeologist is sitting in an aeroplane, trying to discover archaeological sites and to take a few nice photographs of them. This is (somehow) true. But aerial archaeology is more than just taking photographs, although this was and sometimes is still considered to be its main subject. In fact, it ...

Mn/Model Home What is an Archaeological Predictive Model History of Project Project Importance Mn/Model Facts Research Design Implementation Distribution Policy Contact Information Minnesota Office of the State Archaeologist Minnesota Archaeology Minnesota Historic Bridges Mn/DOT Home FAQ Site Map Search Info@DOT Ramp Meter Study Mn/Model was financed by the Minnesota Department of ...

For over twenty years research has been conducted in the applications of remote sensing and GIS in the Burgundy region of France. This long term research project: Applications of Geomatics for Long Term Regional Archaeological Settlement Pattern Analysis is the work of Dr. Scott Madry of Informatics International, Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of ...

Home page of the international computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology conference (CAA) ...

History of Program | Contracts/Grants | Curation | Staff | Publications | Mission | Alabama State Site File GIS in Archaeology |Dust Cave Site| UA Anthropology | UA Museums | UA Home | OAR Home GIS in Archaeology Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software provides archaeologists with a powerful set of tools for management, analysis and research of cultural resources. The power of GIS lies in ...

This paper was presented at a poster session during the 1996 Society for American Archaeology meetings in New Orleans. The poster summarizes research on prehistoric roads of the Chaco Anasazi, a society that developed in the northern American Southwest between A.D. 900 and 1150. While many scholars believe that the roads integrated Anasazi communities into a large regional network built around ...

This is an image of the area around the city of Angkor, Cambodia. The city houses an ancient complex of more than 60 temples dating back to the 9th century. The principal complex, Angkor Wat, is the bright square just left of the center of the image. It is surrounded by a reservoir that appears in this image as a thick black line. The larger bright square above Angkor Wat is another temple ...

The need for the solid modelling of structure in the archaeology of buildings Robert Daniels Table of Contents How to access this article Home Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations 1. The Development of Three-Dimensional Modelling in Archaeology 1.1 What is Three-Dimensional Modelling What is a model 1.2 The Initial Need for Three-Dimensional Modelling in Archaeology Representing Data ...

GPR in Archaeology Larry Conyers University of Denver, Denver Colorado, USA Using radar geophysics to locate and map buried archaeological features How to find me: Larry Conyers Anthropology Department Campus Address: 2000 E. Asbury St. Sturm Hall Room 132 Denver, Colorado 80208 Campus Telephone: 303-871-2684 E-mail me by clicking here: lconyers@du.edu Fax: 303-871-2437 What is GPR What is the ...

Nzaa home aerial archaeology home New Zealand has some 6, 000 earthwork fortifications, the product of widespread warfare in the pre-European period from about A.D. 1500 to A.D. 1800. In addition, Maori quickly adopted and developed aspects of gun warfare in the nineteenth century: as many as 600 fortified sites were built or adapted from pre-European types. The Maori word for these ...

Harrison Eiteljorg, II CSA - Center for the Study of Architecture and Harrison Eiteljorg, II This document may be reproduced and distributed freely so long as the following conditions are met. One, authorship and copyright notice must appear on any distributed copy of the whole or any part thereof. Two, there are no charges for such reproductions beyond those for photocopying. Three, no ...

A review of the archaeological evidence for food plants from the British Isles: an example of the use of the Archaeobotanical Computer Database (ABCD) Philippa Tomlinson * and Allan R. Hall ** Table of Contents Home Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables 1 Introduction 2 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Foodplants 2.1 Previous Surveys of Food Plants in Britain 3 What is a Food ...

HOW GEOPHYSICAL METHODS CAN HELP THE ARCHAEOLOGIST by Lambert Dolphin formerly Senior Research Physicist SRI International, Menlo Park, California World War One brought the discovery that photographs behind enemy lines taken from airplanes could be of great value in warfare. Not longer after this, observers taking random photographs from the air over rural England noticed that traces of old ...

Prospection of Archaeological Sites by Examples ...

CSR Recieving Station -AVHRR -SeaWiFS Multispectral and Hyperspectral +Kennedy Space Center +Rio Grande Valley +Great Victoria Desert - Chora of Chersonesos -Area Description +Excavation Sites +RS Data Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Multisensor Fusion LIDAR INSAR Remote Sensing and Archaeology: The Chora of Chersonesos Principal Investigators: Dr. Joseph Carter, Institute of Classical ...

Resistivity Survey of the Nevis Jewish Cemetery The information on this page is taken from 'What are you doing ': Examining a colonial period Jewish cemetery in the Caribbean , a paper given by Michelle Terrell at the 31st Annual Meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology held in Atlanta January 6-10, 1998. If you were to visit the small island of Nevis located in the Eastern Caribbean ...

Tech Lab Info Homepage Plug-in's Contact Lab Scanning Methodology Quick Models Virtual Calipers ATL News Publications Projects Digital Archive Network for Anthropology (DANA) Java3D Artifact Explorer (Alpha Testing) Virtual Anthropology Laboratory World Endocast Viewer AnthXML 3D Scanning Service Grants & Funding Grant Awards EPSCoR NWACC TFAC NDSU Links WWWIC University Homepage College of AHSS ...

The Digital Imprint Template is now available for download. With generous funding from the Ahmanson Foundation, the Lab has been conducting a three year project to help develop standards for the digital publication of archaeological field reports. This project, called the Digital Imprint, will explore new approaches for organizing and presenting primary field data. The development of both ...

GIS Modeling of Archaeological Sites in the Raccoon River Greenbelt Dallas County, Iowa prepared for Jeff Logsdon and Donna Howe, Dallas County Conservation Board, Perry, Iowa prepared by Paul F. Anderson, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Agronomy, Land Use Analysis Laboratory, Iowa State University July 1995 Abstract: The Raccoon River Greenbelt was created in 1989 to develop ...

A leading course in archaeological computing ...

The archaeological research of one of Nova Scotia's original Black Loyalist settelements of the late eighteenth century ...

ESRI is the world leader in GIS (geographic information system) software and technology. This site featurs free GIS software, online mapping, online GIS training, demos, data, product and service information, user scripts, and much more.

Dr. Freeman's Site Play Intro GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS This interdisciplinary site is intended to be an introduction to the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in combination with geoarchaeological technique and methodology to help solve archaeological problems. The slide show is a guided tour of a short, conceptual practicum meant to illustrate the concepts and ...

Advanced Research Workshop Leszno, Poland 15 -17 November 2000 . PROGRAM Wednesday, 15 November Thursday, 16 November Friday, 17 November ABSTRACTS START PAGE Notes on timing and discussion List of Participants WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:00 - 09:30 Opening ceremony and announcements. Chair: Wlodzimierz Raczkowski 10:00 - 13:15 Session A: Understanding landscapes: ...

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University of Bristol ARCHAEOLOGY & COMPUTER SCIENCE INSITE - Computer based reconstructions of archaeological sites INSITE PROJECT An Interactive Photo-Realistic Visualisation System for Archaeological Sites Full paper - explaining the complete project, contains several large images Brief introduction to the INSITE project with small images and links to full size images Brochtorff Circle ...

University of Bristol DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY Visualisation of Landscapes Project Welcome to the Visualisation of Landscapes project (VLP). What exactly is the VLP The Visualisation of Landscapes project is a University funded teaching initiative within the Archaeology Department, in conjunction with the Departments of Computer Science and Geography. The project is an inter-disciplinary ...

Aerial Archaeology Examples Why Use Aerial Archaeology Person walking among scattered and somewhat linear stones. To see what this person cannot see from ground-level, CLICK HERE (Source: Aerial Archaeology Newsletter website). With an aerial perspective, it is obvious that these stones were aligned into a large grid, possibly to outline food gardens, and over time, the overall arrangement is ...