Multispectral archaeological prospection : a case study in the Dinar region, central western Turkey
The aim of this work is to explore a method of archaeological site prospection using satellite-collected multispectral imagery in order to provide the archaeological community with a comprehensive, quantitative case study of an efficient tool to survey archaeological landscapes in the Near East and beyond. To that end, after a brief introduction a review of previous predictive modelling and satellite imagery applications in archaeology is presented to provide context to the methodological approach taken here. This is followed by a discussion of site detection, prediction, recovery and interpretation in order to consider problematic issues that might arise during each of these phases and negatively impact results; based on this foundation, a method of multispectral archaeological prospection is proposed. Next the primary case study region of the Dinar Basin in central western Turkey is presented in terms of the physical geography and palaeoclimatology as well as known settlement and inter-regional interaction from prehistory to the present to provide archaeological context to the study region and to better understand what might be expected in the archaeological record, what impact later settlement systems might
Thompson, D. W.
Multispectral archaeological prospection : a case study in the Dinar region, central western Turkey. The aim of this work is to explore a method of archaeological site prospection using satellite-collected multispectral imagery in order to provide the archaeological community with a comprehensive, quantitative case study of an efficient tool to survey archaeological landscapes in the Near East and beyond. To that end, after a brief introduction a review of previous predictive modelling and satellite imagery applications in archaeology is presented to provide context to the methodological approach taken here. This is followed by a discussion of site detection, prediction, recovery and interpretation in order to consider problematic issues that might arise during each of these phases and negatively impact results; based on this foundation, a method of multispectral archaeological prospection is proposed. Next the primary case study region of the Dinar Basin in central western Turkey is presented in terms of the physical geography and palaeoclimatology as well as known settlement and inter-regional interaction from prehistory to the present to provide archaeological context to the study region and to better understand what might be expected in the archaeological record, what impact later settlement systems might
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