From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology - Softcover

Brophy, Kenneth; Cowley, Dave

9780752431307: From the Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752431307 ISBN 13: 9780752431307

Publisher: Tempus, 2005

Aerial photography is one of the most important and cost-effective ways of recording traces of the past and discovering new sites. It also offers the archaeologist an alternative viewpoint on these archaeological traces, and is one of the most exciting and challenging types of fieldwork. The experiences of the contributors to this volume highlight the role that bias, subjectivity, and perception play in the shaping of flights and in the results themselves. They draw on important aspects of archaeological fieldwork such as experience, intuition, improvisation, emotion, and stress, which are all too often left unarticulated. These contributions from the practitioners, photographers, and interpreters that form the aerial archaeological community present a counterpoint to the traditional textbook.

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The individual chapters reflect new research by some of the best young scholars involved in aerial archaeology, as well as providing contributions from such doyens of the discipline as W.S. Hanson, Gordon Maxwell and David R. Wilson. The editors, Dr Kenneth Brophy and Dave Cowley, work in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland respectively.

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