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  • About
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      • The Arcadia Fund
      • The Cultural Protection Fund
    • Advisory Board
    • Remote Sensing Archaeology
    • Meet the Team
    • Fieldwork
    • Press
  • Case Studies
  • Threats
    • Agriculture
    • Conflict
    • Construction
    • Natural Erosion
    • Looting
  • Blog
  • Resources
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    • Protecting the Past Series
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Category Archives: survey

Visiting sites on the ground in Jordan. Part 2: the Madaba region

Ground visits are extremely useful, and can be used to validate and check that the interpretations we had made based on remote sensing imagery are correct. For the eight archaeological sites we visited, we could confirm that they are indeed archaeological sites, and that the features we had identified through remote sensing were also correct

29th January 2018Leave a commentaerial photographs, Jordan, surveyBy Mike Bishop

Figure 4. The pendant seen from the west with the tail in the foreground and the head to the horizon (photo P. Flohr).

Visiting sites on the ground in Jordan, Part 1: Amra pendant 1

In the EAMENA Project, most of the time we see the world from above, through satellite imagery or aerial photographs. These are very informative and, moreover, a quick way to examine and assess large areas of the landscape. However, there are some things that we simply cannot see from above.

31st August 2017Leave a commentJordan, methodology, surveyBy Mike Bishop

Abandoned house and bakery (?)

Lebanon’s Heritage at Risk: Part 2

Numerous surveys have been carried out across Northern Lebanon, from the Akkar plain in the north, to Copeland and Wescombe’s work across Lebanon as a whole

30th March 2017Leave a commentblog entry, Lebanon, surveyBy Mike Bishop

The Madaba Ring Road, Jordan. Evidence of cultural heritage assets from remote imagery in the Madaba hinterland

In March 2015 the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project was invited by the Department of Antiquities, Jordan (DoA) to record and analyse using satellite imagery, aerial photography and topographic maps the archaeological sites in the region of the Madaba ring road.

3rd June 2015Leave a commentCase Studies, Jordan, surveyBy Mike Bishop
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