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Retraction: Geo-Archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Andang Bachtiar, Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, Ali Akbar, Pon Purajatnika, Mudrik R. Daryono, Dadan D. Wardhana, Andri S. Subandriyo, Andi Krisyunianto, Tagyuddin, Budianto Ontowiryo, Yusuf Maulana. Archaeological Prospection, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1912). The above article, published online on 20 October 2023 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been
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An ethical framework for geophysical survey in historic Black cemeteries Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sarah Lowry
Historic Black cemeteries in the south‐eastern United States are actively threatened by development, neglect, environmental degradation and vandalism. Geophysical archaeological tools are often championed as a solution to document unmarked graves, determine cemetery boundaries and help preserve these spaces. This process can be problematic as geophysical instruments themselves do not find graves; rather
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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Surveying and monitoring submerged archaeological sites in inland waters through a multiproxy strategy: The case of Dolmen de Guadalperal and other sites from Valdecañas reservoir (Spain) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Enrique Cerrillo-Cuenca, José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco, Rocío Castillo Belinchón, Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, Antonio González Cordero, Juan Antonio Pérez-Álvarez
The evolving dynamics of climate change and water resource management present unique challenges for the research and conservation of archaeological heritage, particularly within reservoirs. The Dolmen of Guadalperal in Spain and its surrounding archaeological sites exemplify such a scenario. This study is dedicated to the development and application of a comprehensive methodology for archaeological
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Erratum to “Evaluating Mask R-CNN models to extract terracing across oceanic high islands: A case study from Sāmoa” Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-04
Quintus, S., Davis, D. S., & Cochrane, E. E. (2023). Evaluating Mask R-CNN models to extract terracing across oceanic high islands: A case study from Sāmoa. Archaeological Prospection, 30(4), 477–492.
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Integrating legacy survey data into GIS-based analysis: The rediscovery of the archaeological landscapes in Grevena (Western Macedonia, Greece) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Giannis Apostolou, Konstantina Venieri, Alfredo Mayoral, Sofia Dimaki, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Mercourios Georgiadis, Hector A. Orengo
Surface archaeological survey has been widely established as the principal method for the regional study of Mediterranean diachronic landscapes. Before the introduction of GPS and digital, GIS-based recordings in the late 1990s, survey projects employed analogue recording strategies (e.g. personal notebooks, printed forms and cartographic materials) resulting in low-precision spatial datasets. These
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Towards better differentiation of archaeological objects based on geomorphometric features of a digital elevation model, the case of the Old Oder Canal Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Łukasz Janowski, Andrzej Pydyn, Mateusz Popek, Juliusz Gajewski, Barbara Gmińska-Nowak
Limited visibility in the underwater environment often restricts opportunities for archaeological prospection. Especially in reservoirs with a high content of suspended solids, methods based on acoustics prove to be extremely useful. This study represents the first high-resolution acoustic mapping and archaeological prospections of the Old Oder Canal, which has extremely poor visibility. The study
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Magnetometer mapping of drowned prehistoric landscapes for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Netherlands Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Seger van den Brenk, Hans Huisman, Nico W. Willemse, Bjørn Smit, Bertil J. H. van Os
Coastal areas can contain a highly valuable archaeological record because of post-glacial drowning of previously inhabited land surfaces. Such records are increasingly under threat because of a range of economic activities. Archaeological Heritage Management (AHM) is hampered by a lack of detailed data on the buried landscapes. This makes it difficult to fully assess and deflect threats to this record
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Utilizing the MaxEnt machine learning model to forecast urban heritage sites in the desert regions of southwestern Algeria: A case study in the Saoura region Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Guechi Imen, Gherraz Halima, Korichi Ayoub, Alkama Djamel
The Saoura region, a renowned oasis in North Africa with heritage and archaeological significance of both national and universal importance, has witnessed a gradual deterioration over time. This research involves archaeological predictive modelling, aiming to create models capable of predicting the likelihood of discovering archaeological sites, cultural resources or evidence of past landscape use
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Combined use of drones and geophysics in enhancing cemetery studies: Two case studies in Northern Ireland, UK Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Ruffell Alastair, Rocke Benjamin
The real-time use of drone-derived orthoimagery and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) facilitate conjunctive ground surveying and aerial visual reference of subterranean features within cemeteries. Geospatially referenced visual outputs allow sympathetic restoration and assist in understanding historical use. Two contrasting case studies demonstrate this: The first is a subterranean wall, built to separate
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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A geospatial and archaeological investigation of an African–American cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 John Wall, DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl, Norman S. Levine, John K. Millhauser, Dru E. McGill, Karl W. Wegmann, Vincent Melomo
Oberlin Cemetery, located near downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, was founded in 1873 following the American Civil War (1861–1865). This 3.2 ac (~1.29 ha) parcel of land served as the main cemetery for the people of Oberlin Village—the largest freedmen's community in Wake County. Today, descendants of the village founders and other neighbourhood residents, organized as the Friends of Oberlin Village
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The challenges of signal interpretation of burials in ground-penetrating radar Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Andrew Martindale, William T. D. Wadsworth, Eric Simons, Brian Whiting, Colin Grier
The identification of unmarked graves and burials is one of most common applications of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in archaeology. Despite a high frequency of use and a long history of experimentation, there appears to be considerable variability on what indicates a burial in GPR data—likely a consequence of heterogeneity in geological contexts, age and in burial practices. Although general statements
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Geoarchaeological investigations in Artanish Peninsula, Armenia: Testing a new geochemical prospecting method for archaeology Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Arshavir Hovhannisyan, Arsen Bobokhyan, René Kunze, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Sandra E. Hahn, Dmitri Arakelyan, Avetis Grigoryan, Marianna Harutyunyan, Varduhi Siradeghyan
Within the framework of an Armenian–German research project, taking place between 2019 and 2021 on the Artanish Peninsula at Lake Sevan (Armenia), in addition to numerous (geo-) archaeological investigations, methods of geochemical prospection have been carried out. The ancient burial grounds of Artanish 23 and Artanish 29 have served as model sites to successfully test the well-known method of geochemical
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Collaborative multimethod geophysics at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery, Northport, Alabama Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Claiborne D. Sea, Patricia Kemp, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair
This paper serves to highlight the partnership built between the Prewitt Slave Cemetery Association (PSCA) and the University of Alabama (UA) through the work conducted by the UA archaeological field school at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery (PSC) in Fall 2022. During this collaborative project, the field school students geolocated, recorded and photographed more than 700 above-ground grave markers and
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Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 William T. D. Wadsworth, Stephanie Halmhofer, Kisha Supernant
In North America, archaeological prospection has recently undergone a surge in popularity, resulting in higher visibility for both scientific and fringe narratives. This has been partially due to increasingly sensationalized media articles that promote the use of technology to locate overgrown and subsurface features in the landscape. The heightened profile of the field and increasingly sensitive contexts
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On Cemetery Hill: The legacy of burials at Clemson University, a public university in the southern USA Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Keith C. Seramur, Kyle B. Campbell, Joseph B. Anderson, Ellen A. Cowan
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) was used to map anomalies characteristic of unmarked graves on the grounds of the modern Woodland Cemetery on the campus of Clemson University. Hundreds of these anomalies are believed to represent newly discovered unmarked graves belonging to African Americans including enslaved people, convicted laborers, sharecroppers, domestic workers, tenant farmers and wage workers
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UAV LiDAR in coastal environments: Archaeological case studies from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and Vega, Norway Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ole Risbøl, Jo Sindre P. Eidshaug, Hein B. Bjerck, Magnar M. Gran, Kristoffer R. Rantala, Angélica M. Tivoli, Atilio Francisco J. Zangrando
LiDAR has become fairly integrated into archaeological practice at a global scale. This has gradually evolved to include UAV LiDAR. Nevertheless, considerable biases remain, including with regard to geographical regions, chronological periods, feature types and environments. At present, few studies of coastal environments exist, despite the fact that LiDAR—and UAV LiDAR in particular—has the obvious
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Community-led investigations of unmarked graves at Indian residential schools in Western Canada—overview, status report and best practices Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Brian Whiting
Part of Canadian history that is now being addressed is the legacy of Indian residential schools (IRSs) and closely related institutions. For most of their 200-year-plus history, these were run by various churches or religious organizations, and many were directly funded (and eventually run) by government. Attendance by Indigenous children at these schools was made compulsory, and children were deliberately
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Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Andang Bachtiar, Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, Ali Akbar, Pon Purajatnika, Mudrik R. Daryono, Dadan D. Wardhana, Andri S. Subandriyo, Andi Krisyunianto, Tagyuddin, Budianto Ontowiryo, Yusuf Maulana
The multidisciplinary study of Gunung Padang has revealed compelling evidence of a complex and sophisticated megalithic site. Correlations between rock stratifications observed through surface exposures, trenching and core logs, combined with GPR facies, ERT layers, and seismic tomograms, demonstrate the presence of multi-layer constructions spanning approximately 20–30 m. Notably, a high-resistive
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Challenging collaborative archaeology: Remote sensing of African American burials in a majority-White, rural town Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Edward González-Tennant, Diana González-Tennant
Interest in documenting and preserving African American burial grounds is rapidly expanding across the United States of America. This work has wide support and numerous groups advocate for the creation of such projects. In majority-White, rural communities, these projects can elicit strong reactions — positive and negative. This article discusses the challenges arising in such locations by reviewing
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A Late Holocene case study from south-west France: Combining geomorphology and geophysics to understand archaeological site morphology Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Marie Larcanché, Cécile Verdet, Colette Sirieix, Ronan Steinmann, Sylvain Colin, Vivien Mathé, Christian Chevillot, Sylvain Matéo, Nicolas Houillon, Juliette Hantrais, Eneko Hiriart
This article combining geophysics and archaeology aims to provide a more comprehensive characterization of the La Ruchelle valley located in the south of the Celtic site of La Peyrouse (Saint-Félix-de-Villadeix, Dordogne, France) (occupied between the 3rd century BC and the 2nd century AD) through geological prospection (core sampling, geotechnical prospection and mechanical prospection) and near-surface
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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A novel seismic full waveform inversion approach for assessing the internal structure of a medieval sea dike Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Michaela Schwardt, Dennis Wilken, Daniel Köhn, Wolfgang Rabbel
Coastal protection in the form of dike constructions has a long history at the German North Frisian coast dating back to the High Middle Ages. As the vast majority of the dikes built prior to the devastating storm surges of the Middle Ages have been irretrievably destroyed, mostly sparse remains and only a few well preserved of these medieval dikes are found along the German North Frisian coast and
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Climate change associated hazards on cultural heritage in Egypt Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Mohamed A. Abdrabo, Mahmoud A. Hassaan, Rofida G. Abdelwahab, Toka A. Elbarky
Egypt is a distinctive country in terms of its rich and unique tangible cultural heritage including monuments and archaeological sites distributed across the country. Many monuments and archaeological sites are facing a variety of climate change-associated hazards with a wide range of cross-sectoral impacts. This research intends to identify climate change-associated hazards on tangible cultural heritage
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Evaluating Mask R-CNN models to extract terracing across oceanic high islands: A case study from Sāmoa Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Seth Quintus, Dylan S. Davis, Ethan E. Cochrane
Lidar datasets have been crucial for documenting the scale and nature of human ecosystem engineering and land use. Automated analysis methods, which have been rising in popularity and efficiency, allow for systematic evaluations of vast landscapes. Here, we use a Mask R-CNN deep learning model to evaluate terracing—artificially flattened areas surrounded by steeper slopes—on islands in American Sāmoa
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-06
No abstract is available for this article.
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Tracing the spatial organization and activity zones of an Early Mediaeval homestead at the Pohansko stronghold (Czechia) by combining geophysics and geochemical mapping Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Michaela Prišťáková, Katarína Adameková, Jan Petřík, Petr Dresler, Lubomír Prokeš
Geoarchaeological prospection techniques were applied to identify activity zones and the inner structure of a homestead at the Early Mediaeval site Pohansko near Břeclav (Czechia). By a combination of geophysical methods, the spatial distribution of microartefacts, geochemical analysis and multivariate statistical analysis, we outlined various manifestations of anthropogenic activity. We examined obtained
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Comprehensive geophysical prospection of the Roman and late antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Miguel A. Cau-Ontiveros, Catalina Mas-Florit, Esther Chávez-Álvarez, Roger Sala, Cornelius Meyer, Helena Ortiz-Quintana, Pedro Rodríguez-Simón
An extensive magnetic survey has been carried out on a large part of the Roman and late antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain), combined with ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electric resistivity imaging (ER Imaging) to obtain data for a better understanding of the ancient city.
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3D geometric survey of cultural heritage by UAV in inaccessible coastal or shallow aquatic environments Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Mariluz Gil-Docampo, Simón Peña-Villasenín, Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Juan Ortiz-Sanz, Sara Peraleda-Vázquez
Cultural heritage in coastal or shallow aquatic environments is often located in areas where access is difficult or where accurate survey and documentation may not always be possible with terrestrial or aquatic equipment. The combination of photogrammetry and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) generates a range of possibilities across multiple sectors, including history, ethnography and cultural heritage
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Long-term monitoring to inform the geophysical detection of archaeological ditch anomalies in different climatic conditions Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Daniel Boddice, Nicole Metje, David Chapman
Contrasts in electromagnetic properties between the target feature and surrounding soil are of importance for detection of archaeological features with Ground Penetrating Radar. These vary because of changing climatic conditions and soil type and are currently poorly understood. Long-term in situ monitoring of apparent relative dielectric permittivity, bulk electrical conductivity and soil temperature
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Geophysical survey at the frontier of medieval Iberia: The castles of Molina de Aragón and Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Guillermo García-Contreras, Robert Fry, Rowena Y. Banerjea, Aleks Pluskowski
This paper presents the results of geophysical surveys conducted within two castles in central Iberia: the fortifications of Molina de Aragón and Atienza, both located within the modern province of Guadalajara in Spain. They represent essential case studies for understanding the transformations of the frontier societies of medieval south-western Europe, because both were founded during the Andalusi
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Tracking the effects of the long-term changes on the coastal archaeological sites of the Mediterranean using remote sensing data: The case study from the northern shoreline of Nile Delta of Egypt Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Abdelaziz Elfadaly, Khaled Abutaleb, Doaa M. Naguib, Wael Mostafa, Mohamed A. R. Abouarab, Aiman Ashmawy, Penelope Wilson, Rosa Lasaponara
Climate change effects along with anthropogenic activities present the main factors that threaten the existence of heritage sites across the north Nile Delta of Egypt close to the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. Observing the changes in the landscape close to the archaeological sites is an important issue for decision-makers in terms of reducing the negative impact of natural events and human activities
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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Reconstructing the ancient route network in the Thailand–Cambodia borders: A case study of the Angkorian Royal Road Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Sutthikan Khamsiri, Pira Venunan, Chawalit Khaokheiw, Praon Silapanth, Santi Pailoplee
A large number of ancient remnants from the Angkor kingdom of the 15th–19th centuries are widely observable across present day north-eastern Thailand and Cambodia. Archaeologically, these features represent the ancient communities and were possibly connected according to various socioeconomic reasons. In order to reconstruct the route of human mobility between the remains, the geographic informati
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Archaeological prospection using WorldView-3 short-wave infrared (SWIR) satellite imagery: Case studies from the Fertile Crescent Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Jesse Casana, Carolin Ferwerda
Geologists have long valued satellite imagery in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) part of the electromagnetic spectrum (1100–2500 nm) because it can reveal subtle differences in minerology and soil moisture that are otherwise invisible, but the low spatial resolution (20-30 m) of publicly available SWIR imagery has limited its utility for archaeological investigations. As part of a NASA-funded research
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Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high-frequency antenna unit Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Pavel Ryazantsev, Aleksey Tarasov, Maksim Potakhin
We surveyed in detail the Chalcolithic lithic workshop Fofanovo XIII an East Fennoscandian region by ground-penetrating radar (GPR). A high-frequency antenna unit was applied to map small-scale features, mainly waste flakes. To substantiate the efficiency of the GPR technique, we performed a primary analysis of a set of equivalent models in a sandbox. The laboratory-scale GPR investigation highlights
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A methodology for the self-training and self-assessing of new GPR practitioners: Measuring diagnostic proficiency illustrated by a case study of a historic African-American cemetery for unmarked graves Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Jacob Michael Martin, Mark E. Everett
In ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys of African-American cemeteries suspected to contain unmarked graves, determining the proficiency of a new GPR practitioner is vital and perhaps even more fundamental than that of the GPR hardware, deployment configuration and software. Proficiency may be defined as the practitioner's true-positive, true-negative, false-positive (i.e., false alarms) and false-negative
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A long walk in the Italian countryside: Large-scale geophysical survey within the emptyscapes initiative: Examples from the Grosseto-Roselle valley, South Tuscany, Italy Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Ken Saito
In Italy, the potential of geophysical prospection for the characterization of archaeological landscapes, especially in previously unexplored rural or formerly urban areas, has rarely been acknowledged or seriously tested in the field, leaving the character and density of rural settlement across time virtually unknown outside areas favourable to aerial survey. It is obvious, however, that the open
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Field systems and later prehistoric land use: New insights into land use detectability and palaeodemography in the Netherlands through LiDAR, automatic detection and traditional field data Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Stijn Arnoldussen, Wouter B. Verschoof-van der Vaart, Eva Kaptijn, Quentin P. J. Bourgeois
This paper discusses how the use of AI (artificial intelligence) detected later prehistoric field systems provides a more reliable base for reconstructing palaeodemographic trends, using the Netherlands as a case study. Despite its long tradition of settlement excavations, models that could be used to reconstruct (changes in) prehistoric land use have been few and often relied on (insufficiently mapped)
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Automated large-scale mapping and analysis of relict charcoal hearths in Connecticut (USA) using a Deep Learning YOLOv4 framework Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, Alexander Bonhage, Anna Schneider, William Ouimet, Thomas Raab
In the past decade, numerous studies have successfully mapped thousands of former charcoal production sites (also called relict charcoal hearths) manually using digital elevation model (DEM) data from various forested areas in Europe and the north-eastern USA. The presence of these sites causes significant changes in the soil physical and chemical properties, referred to as legacy effects, due to high
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An integrated spatial approach to archaeological prospection using GIS and pedestrian survey data at Tell Abu Shusha, Israel Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Seth J. Price, Matthew J. Adams, Yotam Tepper
Geographic information systems (GIS) methods, combined with airborne remote sensing, enable collection of complex spatial datasets across broad regional areas. This article explores the use of GIS techniques for fast collection, processing and analysis of pedestrian survey data. This approach is used at Tell Abu Shusha, a multiperiod site in the Jezreel Valley of northern Israel. Surface survey of
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An assessment of high temporal frequency satellite data for historic environment applications. A case study from Scotland Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Ciara N. McGrath, David C. Cowley, Sine Hood, Sheila Clarke, Malcolm Macdonald
This paper assesses the value of high temporal frequency satellite data with various spatial sampling resolutions for multi-scalar historic environment survey and management use cases in Scotland, specifically for broad-brush landscape characterisation, for monitoring the condition of monuments and for the discovery of otherwise unknown sites. Dealing with a part of the world where applications of
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Integration of laser level survey, photogrammetry and GPR to examine the deterioration of Roman mosaics: A case study of Venus house, Volubilis, Morocco Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Ahmed Lachhab, El Mehdi Benyassine, Mustapha Atki
Volubilis was founded in the second century B.C. and was one of the largest cities on the fringe of the Roman Empire. In 1997, it was listed as a world cultural heritage site by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is one of the most important archaeological sites of Morocco. Volubilis is renowned for its large number of mosaic floors. Among the major mosaics
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Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Tom Fitton, Federica Sulas, Mik Lisowski, Michelle Alexander, Abdurahman Juma, Stephanie Wynne-Jones
Spatial analysis is paramount for understanding, monitoring, and conserving ancient settlements and cultural landscapes. Advancing remote sensing and prospection techniques are expanding the methodological frame of archaeological settlement analysis by enabling remote, landscape-scale approaches to mapping and investigation. Whilst particularly effective in arid lands and areas with sparse or open
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Investigating ancient agricultural field systems in Sweden from airborne LIDAR data by using convolutional neural network Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Melda Küçükdemirci, Giacomo Landeschi, Mattias Ohlsson, Nicolo Dell'Unto
Today, the advances in airborne LIDAR technology provide high-resolution datasets that allow specialists to detect archaeological features hidden under wooded areas more efficiently. Still, the complexity and large scale of these datasets require automated analysis. In this respect, artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis has recently created an alternative approach for interpreting remote sensing
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Identification of historical trackways in forests using contextual geospatial analyses Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Martina Slámová, Noémi Beljak Pažinová, Ingrid Belčáková, Ján Beljak, Pavol Maliniak
This article demonstrates the application of the methods unravelling microtopographic features, specifically, sunken linear landforms indicating remains of historical trackways in forests. These are related to the ‘Magna Via’ route in the vicinity of the Deserted Castle and the Peťuša Castle in Central Slovakia. The microtopography validation dataset indicating sunken linear landforms was used to evaluate
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Automated methods for image detection of cultural heritage: Overviews and perspectives Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Ariele Câmara, Ana de Almeida, David Caçador, João Oliveira
Remote sensing data covering large geographical areas can be easily accessed and are being acquired with greater frequency. The massive volume of data requires an automated image analysis system. By taking advantage of the increasing availability of data using computer vision, we can design specific systems to automate data analysis and detection of archaeological objects. In the past decade, there
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Ground Penetrating Radar detection of unmarked historic graves at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, Oklahoma Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Ahmed Diab, Ahmed Ismail
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey was conducted to detect historic unmarked graves from the period of the Civil War (1861–1865) at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The GPR survey at the Fairlawn Cemetery will help preserve the unmarked historic graves if they exist or clear sections of the cemetery for possible expansion. GPR detection of historic graves are often a challenge as these
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The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Alvise Barbieri, Federico T. Regala, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho
Until recently, evidence of Neanderthal cave use in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) came only from the site of Ibn Ammar. Over the last couple of years, archaeological excavations inside another cave, Gruta da Companheira, yielded Mousterian stone tools associated with possible human fossils. The discovery of this assemblage is groundbreaking because it may contribute to enlighten the Neanderthal/cave
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SURVEY, DRILL AND EXCAVATE. Complex geoarchaeological prospection of Bronze Age mounds as a key for understanding undermound architecture. A case study from Myluvannia, Western Ukraine Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Jakub Niebieszczański, Jan Romaniszyn, Przemysław Makarowicz, Vitalii Rud
In the area of Western Ukraine, some aspects of mound (barrow) chronology might be resolved by using non- or minimally invasive archaeological prospection. As the cemeteries usually comprise two temporal units—the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture (third millennium BC) and Middle Bronze Age Komarów culture (second millennium BC)—by referring to particular funerary rites Komarów culture and their magnetic
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Revisiting Fara: Comparison of merged prospection results of diverse magnetometers with the earliest excavations in ancient Šuruppak from 120 years ago Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Sandra E. Hahn, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Adelheid Otto, Berthold Einwag, Abbas Ali Al-Hussainy
Ancient Šuruppak, today Fara, was one of the major Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia. It was situated along one of the ancient watercourses of the Euphrates River. Findings date it back to the Jemdet Nasr period around 3000 bc with a continuous occupation until the end of the Ur III period around 2000 bc. Fara was first explored and excavated by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft in the years 1902 and 1903
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A model of spatial location: New data for the Gor River megalithic landscape (Spain) from LiDAR technology and field survey Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Carolina Cabrero-González, Antonio Garrido-Almonacid, Francisco Javier Esquivel, Juan Antonio Cámara-Serrano
The megalithic cluster of the Gor River valley (Andalusia, Spain) is one of the biggest dolmenic groups in Europe, made up of 151 preserved megaliths. In spite of this high number of known monuments, increasing loss and destruction of many of the graves has taken place during the last decades due to enormous soil erosion and anthropogenic activities. With the aim of recording the location of these
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Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Riccardo Valente, Eleonora Maset, Marco Iamoni
This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the ‘Asingeran Archaeological Project’. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engineⓒ, a large-scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows processing remote sensing big data. Outputs generated with
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UAV magnetometer survey in low-level flight for archaeology: Case study of a Second World War airfield at Ganacker (Lower Bavaria, Germany) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Andreas Stele, Roland Linck, Markus Schikorra, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based magnetometer systems became more and more attractive for large-scale archaeological prospection in recent years. Although their sensors exhibit the same sensitivity than the ground-based prospecting systems, UAV prospecting is seriously handicapped by the magnetic and mechanical disturbances of the drone and by limitations of a low-level flight. To minimize these
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Regional archaeological underwater survey method: Applications and implications Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Yi Hu, Yipang Liu, Jianxiang Ding, Boran Liu, Zhongxin Chu
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH) contributes to history, the arts, the economy and science. The number of intact and easily discoverable UCH sites is decreasing due to excavation in China. To conduct active surveys for mapping archaeological sites, rather than mapping based only on incidental reported finds from fishing operations, a regional archaeological underwater survey method is proposed according
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Comparison of geophysical prospecting and geochemical prospecting at the medieval and modern Cistercian Abbey of Carnoët (Finistère, France) Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Arthur Laenger, Arnaud Martel, Fabien Boucher, Xavier François, Michel Dabas, Joséphine Rouillard, Aline Durand
Saint-Maurice Abbey in Carnoët (Finistère) underwent an in-depth archaeological appraisal during 2018–2019, involving several non-destructive technologies: the geophysical survey revealed the presence of expected structures, drawn on ancient plans, but also the presence of structures unknown up until now. A group of buildings on the edge of the pond in particular raised several questions. A geochemical
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Human-in-the-loop development of spatially adaptive ground point filtering pipelines—An archaeological case study Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Michael Doneus, Bernhard Höfle, Dominic Kempf, Gwydion Daskalakis, Maria Shinoto
LiDAR data have become indispensable for research in archaeology and a variety of other topographic applications. To derive products (e.g. digital terrain or feature models, individual trees, buildings), the 3D LiDAR points representing the desired objects of interest within the acquired and georeferenced point cloud need to be identified. This process is known as classification, where each individual
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Issue Information Archaeol. Prospect. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-05
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