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Archaeol Prospection 14 (4)
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Title:
Archaeol Prospection 14 (4)
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Archaeological Prospection
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14 (4)
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Journal
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Editor:
Christopher F Gaffney
Lawrence B Conyers
Arnold Aspinall
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Year of Publication:
2007
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/15126/home
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25 Feb 2008
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Monitoring archaeological sites in a changing landscape-using multitemporal satellite remote sensing as an `early warning' method for detecting regrowth processes
Stine Barlindhaug
Inger Marie Holm-Olsen
Hans Tømmervik
231 - 244
The paper considers the problem of landscape change and the resulting loss of archaeological sites due to farm abandonment followed by regrowth and reforestation. The study focuses on a survey programme started in 1997, aimed at monitoring the condition of archaeological sites listed in the Norwegian National Sites and Monuments Record. A change detection method is presented, based on the use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) applied to Landsat images with different acquisition dates, followed by image differencing. This procedure results in an easily interpretable and extremely quick approach to change detection of land cover as well as change in biomass, and it can be used as a first warning method to indicate archaeological sites threatened by regrowth processes. It is suggested that the method as it is applied in this study appears to be most suitable for monitoring changes in the infield areas where contrasts are clearest. Further development is possible, both at the regional level using medium resolution satellite remote sensing where the aim is to detect significant changes in the agricultural as well as the cultural landscape, and at the site level, where use of the same method on data from high-resolution sensors will allow monitoring of the site on a very detailed scale. Norwegian data.
Characterization of buried inundated peat on seismic (Chirp) data, inferred from core information
Ruth Plets
Justin K Dix
Alex Bastos
Angus I Best
261 - 272
Through a comparison of laboratory, in situ acoustic and sedimentary analyses, the paper presents evidence to suggest that peat buried in fine to medium grained, marine, siliciclastic sediments has an easily identifiable acoustic signature. The very low densities recorded by buried peats result in a distinct negative peak in the reflectivity series. Comparison of synthetic seismograms with in situ seismic data confirms that this negative peak can be easily identified from seismic profiles. Reanalysis of a decade of Chirp (sub-bottom) data, acquired from the Solent Estuary, indicates that possible extensive peat deposits, dating from the Late-glacial to early Holocene, can be traced at depth in this estuary using geophysical methods.
Imaging buried landforms using down-hole susceptibility data and three-dimensional GPR visualization software
Rinita A Dalan
Dean Goodman
273 - 280
The authors argue that a recently developed down-hole magnetic susceptibility instrument, the Bartington MS2H sensor, coupled with Multitsus FieldPro software, provides a minimally invasive, rapid, and cost-effective means for high-resolution mapping of vertical variations in magnetic susceptibility across archaeological landforms. This technology was applied at a multicomponent prehistoric site located in North Dakota, USA. A grid of down-hole tests, each measuring susceptibility at 2-cm vertical intervals to a maximum depth of 130 cm, was placed over a 40 m by 50 m area to map and thus understand spatial relationships between buried soils and cultural deposits previously identified in widely spaced test excavations. The susceptibility measurements were imported into GPR-SLICE software to aid in interpretation. Two and three-dimensional images and animations allowed buried palaeosols to be traced across the landform and revealed areas of focused human activity on these stable surfaces, demonstrating the potential of such an approach for visualizing landscape use and change over time.