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This volume brings together presentations from two sessions
organized for the XVII World UISPP Conference that was held from
1-7 September 2014 in Burgos (Spain). The sessions are: The
scientific value of 3D archaeology, organised by Hans Kamermans,
Chiara Piccoli and Roberto Scopigno, and Detecting the Landscape(s)
- Remote Sensing Techniques from Research to Heritage Management,
organised by Axel Posluschny and Wieke de Neef. The common thread
amongst the papers presented here is the application of digital
recording techniques to enhance the documentation and analysis of
the spatial component intrinsically present in archaeological data.
For a long time the capturing of the third dimension, the depth,
the height or z-coordinate, was problematic. Traditionally,
excavation plans and sections were documented in two dimensions.
Objects were also recorded in two dimensions, often from different
angles. Remote sensing images like aerial photographs were
represented as flat surfaces. Although depth could be visualized
with techniques such as stereoscopes, analysis of relief was
troublesome. All this changed at the end of the last century with
the introduction of computer based digitization technologies, 3D
software, and digital near-surface sampling devices. The spatial
properties of the multi-scale archaeological dataset can now be
accurately recorded, analysed and presented. Relationships between
artefacts can be clarified by visualizing the records in a three
dimensional space, computer-based simulations can be made to test
hypotheses on the past use of space, remote sensing techniques help
in detecting previously hidden features of landscapes, thus
shedding light on bygone land uses.
This volume presents papers exploring the archaeological
applications of remote sensing techniques, including the study of
images made from the air and from space, but also the results of
geophysical techniques like magnetometry, Ground Penetrating Radar
and Electrical Resistivity Tomography.
Papers from Session C04, 'Technology and Methodology for
Archaeological Practice: Practical applications for the past
reconstruction', from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9
September 2006). Contents: 1) 3D Analysis of Quartzite Industries,
case study (Telmo Pereira, Vera Moitinho); 2) 3D scanning and
three-dimensional modelling: a new methodology applied to the study
and conservation of paleolithic rock art. The examples of 'Las
Caldas' cave (Priorio, Asturias) and 'Pena de Candamo' (San Roman
de Candamo, Asturias, Spain) (M Soledad Corchon; E. Garcia; D. G.
Aguilera; A. L. Munoz; J. G. Lahoz; J. S. Herrero); 3)
Reconstructions of the past - How virtual can they be? (Antonio
Jose Mendes, Alexandrino Goncalves, Fernando Silva); 4) Epistemic
commitments, virtual reality, and archaeological representation
(Matt Ratto); 5) Modelling early hominin behavioural ecology (Adam
Newton); 6) Transforming archaeological data between different
geographical scales - a GIS application for the estimation of
population density (Karl Peter Wendt, Andreas Zimmermann); 7)
Walkability analysis: A heuristic alternative method to pathway
modelling (H.P. Blankholm); 8) Piecing together the fragmented
potsherd information: Data-collecting methodology for
reconstruction of a past action (Makoto Tomii); 9) GIS-based
geomorphologycal models for prediction of the systems in
prehistoric occupation (case-study of Obi-Rakhmat Rockshelter
Vicinity, Western Tien-Shan) (I. S. Novikov); 10) The Challenge of
Archaeological Data Integration (Keith W. Kintigh); 11) Historical
and territorial analysis. A Contribution to the Study of the
Defence of the City of Lisbon - The Peninsular Wars by (Helena
Rua); 12) Environmental Suitability and land use - a diachronic
comparison (Andreas Zimmermann, Karl Peter Wendt); 13) Advanced
Methods for Dating (Leo Dubal); 14) Time Drilling Through the Past
of the Island of Crete (A. Sarris et al); 15) ADABweb - Information
System with Geo Web Services for the Cultural Heritage of Lower
Saxony (Germany) (Otto Mathias Wilbertz); 16) Organic remains from
the Copper Age settlement of Ecser (Katalin Herbich, Robert Patay).
In 2012 it was 50 years ago that the initial independent core of
the Faculty of Archaeology was founded. On the occasion of this
50th anniversary the Board of the Faculty of Archaeology has asked
the editors of the Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia to produce a
special volume of Analecta and open its pages not only for
Prehistoric research but to all Archaeological disciplines. The
editors invited the permanent staff of the Faculty to provide a
contribution. The End Of Our Fifth Decade is the result. The
subjects offered are very diverse and provide the reader with a
written Tableau de la troupe, as it was intended to be. The first
contributions are about the present. They deal with the problem of
preserving archaeology in situ, the evaluation of twenty years of
the Malta convention and the current variety of approaches in
archaeology. However the rest of the book is about the past. This
volume is organised in such a way that you go back in time and as
good archaeologists we start from the top and dig our way into the
past. The part about the past starts in the 17th century AD in the
Caribbean and end with research on a 300 000 years old site from
Germany."
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