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

Roadways in Chaco Canyon

Path Network in Arena, Costa Rica

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

The ‘lost city’ of Ubar

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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