Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA)

Bewley, Robert

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“…Recent articles by Parcak et al (2016) and Fradley and Sheldrick (2017) in Antiquity, while in disagreement on some points, highlight the importance of ongoing monitoring and timely data updates to manage heritage in dynamic contexts. Several major efforts now leverage the advantages of serial satellite imaging across the Middle East and North Africa for the purpose of site and landscape monitoring, including the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA - Bewley et al 2016), the ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (Casana and Panahipour 2014;Casana 2015;Danti et al 2017) and the Afghan Heritage Mapping Project (Stein 2015). Now that these projects have been operating for three years or more, they are able to move beyond data collection and examine the how and why of looting and destruction through development.…”

Section: High Temporal Revisit Satellitesmentioning

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Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing

Opitz

Herrmann

2018

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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The variety and sophistication of data sources, sensors, and platforms employed in archaeological remote sensing have increased significantly over the past decade. Projects incorporating data from UAV surveys, regional and research-driven lidar surveys, the uptake of hyperspectral imaging, the launch of high-temporal revisit satellites, the advent of multi-sensor rigs for geophysical survey, and increased use of structure from motion mean that more archaeologists are engaging with remote sensing than ever. These technological advances continue to drive research in the specialist community and provide reasons for optimism about future applications, but many social and technical obstacles to the integration of remote sensing into archaeological research and heritage management remain. This article addresses the challenges of contemporary archaeological remote sensing by briefly reviewing trends and then focusing on providing a critical overview of the main structural problems. The discussion here concentrates on topics that have dominated the discourse in recent archaeological literature and featured prominently in ongoing fieldwork for the past decade across three broad segments of landscape archaeology: data collection in the field, the current state of data access and archives, and processing and interpretation.

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Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing

Opitz

Herrmann

2018

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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“…One outcome of interpretation of some of these windows has been to increase enormously the number of sites known; tens of thousands have now been ‘pinned’ (note the systematic interpretation of this imagery by the EAMENA project in Oxford, Bewley et al., ). The virtual globe platform also allows simple mechanisms for mapping sites and undertaking the kinds of preliminary analysis possible without groundwork and excavation (Kennedy & Bishop, ).…”

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‘Gates’: a new archaeological site type in Saudi Arabia

Kennedy

2017

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The availability of high-resolution satellite imagery of Saudi Arabia on publicly available platforms such as Google Earth and Bing Maps has been transformational for archaeology. Within just a few years tens of thousands of sites previously unrecorded and scarcely known to the academic world have been mapped.Especially rich in sites are the successive lava fields (harret) stretching from southern Syria through Jordan and down the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula to Yemen, and characterised by the stone-built structures known to the Bedouin as the 'works of the old men'. Sites now being revealed include many types familiar from previous research in the wider region but also others of a form previously unknown. 'Gates' are one such type, found in large numbers in and around the Harret Khaybar in west-central Saudi Arabia. They are stone-built, the walls roughly made and low as with other 'works', but quite unlike them in form. Identification, mapping, and preliminary interpretation imply an early date in the sequence of the works-perhaps the very earliest-but no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned. Fieldwork is a desideratum. K E Y W O R D SArabia, gates, Harret Khaybar, kites, prehistory, remote sensing, works of the old men

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“…Sparked by archaeologist Sarah Parcak's (2019, 220) "wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites across the globe" and subsequently funded through a TED Prize, GlobalXplorer°launched in 2017 with the ambitious goal of "map[ping] the entire world using remote sensing and the eyes of citizen scientists in just 10 years" (https:// medium.com/@globalxplorer/welcome-to-globalxplorer-7bf b555260a1). The project began its work with the more pointed objective of identifying archaeological sites for the purpose of conservation-a goal shared with several additional large scale "virtual survey" initiatives, including the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project and TerraWatchers (Bewley et al 2016;Savage, Johnson, and Levy 2017).…”

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“…But archaeologists remain alternately bullish on, and critical of, aerial vision. Scholars have employed satellite imagery to enhance the visibility of architecture and site boundaries (Garrison et al 2008;Lasaponara et al 2011;Masini et al 2008;Parcak 2007;Saturno et al 2006;Sever and Irwin 2003), document site destruction (Bewley et al 2016;Casana and Laugier 2017;Casana and Panahipour 2014;Contreras and Brodie 2010;Fradley and Sheldrick 2017;Parcak 2007;Parcak et al 2016), and map previously undocumented landscapes in extensive areas using both expert-led and automated classifications (Casana 2014;Menze and Ur 2012;Ur 2013aUr , 2013b. Airborne lidar has revealed vast areas of archaeological sites and features and generated particularly stunning results in forested landscapes (Chase et al 2012(Chase et al , 2011Evans et al 2013;Fisher et al 2017;Fisher and Leisz 2013;Golden et al 2016;Henry, Shields, and Kidder 2019;Johnson and Ouimet 2014;Opitz et al 2015).…”

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Big Archaeology: Horizons and Blindspots

VanValkenburgh

Dufton

2020

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Big data have arrived in archaeology, in the form of both large-scale datasets themselves and in the analytics and approaches of data science. Aerial data collected from satellite-, airborne-and UAVmounted sensors have been particularly transformational, allowing us to capture more sites and features, over larger areas, at greater resolution, and in formerly inaccessible landscapes. However, these new means of collecting, processing, and visualizing datasets also present fresh challenges for archaeologists. What kinds of questions are these methods suited to answer, and where do they fall short? How do they articulate with the work of collecting smaller scale and lower resolution data? How are our relationships with "local" communities impacted by working at the scales of entire provinces, nation-states, and continents? This themed issue seeks to foster a conversation about how the unprecedented expansion of archaeological site detection, the globalization of archaeological data structures and databases, and the use of high-resolution aerial datasets are changing both the way archaeologists envision the past and the way we work in the present. In our introduction to the issue, presented here, we outline a series of conceptual and ethical issues posed by big data approaches in archaeology and provide an overview of how the nine essays that comprise this volume each address them.

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Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA)

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Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing

Recent Trends and Long-standing Problems in Archaeological Remote Sensing

‘Gates’: a new archaeological site type in Saudi Arabia

Big Archaeology: Horizons and Blindspots

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