Transcript 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
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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http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/chaco_compare.html
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See also: Sheets & Sever. “Creating and Perpetuating Social Memory Across the Ancient Costa Rican Landscape.” In Remote Sensing in
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Moore, Elizabeth; Freeman, Tony; and Hensley, Scott. “Spaceborne and Airborne Radar at Angkor: Introducing New Technology to the
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Blom, Ronald G. et al. “Southern Arabian Desert Trade Routes, Frankincense, Myrrh, and the Ubar Legend.” In Remote Sensing in
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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