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Archaeology from the Air
Class 1: Aerial archaeology pioneers from Wessex to the Middle East
Tutor: Keith Challis
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Class Summary
• Admin and Housekeeping• Personal Introduction• Course Outline• What is aerial archaeology?
• Coffee Break
• Feedback – themes and choices• From Wessex to the Middle East, early pioneers
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Admin and Housekeeping
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Practicalities
• Enrolment paperwork
• Register
• Absence ([email protected]) or Phone/Txt 07921457007
• What to bring
• Handouts (paperless course?)
• Internet access?
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Personal Introduction
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About Me• National Trust
• Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, University of York
• Research Fellow in Remote Sensing, University of Birmingham
• Research Officer, York Archaeological Trust
• Research Associate, University of Nottingham
• 13 years project management and commercial archaeological consultancy at Trent & Peak Archaeology
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My Interests
• Remote Sensing– Lidar– Airborne MS/HS imagery– Satellite applications in
cultural heritage
• Heritage– Alluvial geoarchaeology– Medieval landscapes
• GI Science– Predictive modelling– Landscape analyis– Visualisation of landscape
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Course Outline
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Course Outline
1. Aerial archaeology pioneers from Wessex to the Middle East
2. Aerial archaeology grows up: from WW2 to the National Mapping Programme
3. Using aerial photographs 1: types of photograph and evidence
4. Using aerial photographs 2: from photograph to map
5. Space based satellite systems and archaeology
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Course Outline
6. Seeing beyond the visible. What is hyperspectral remote sensing?
7. Mapping the shape of the land. Lidar, radar and archaeology
8. Looking at a landscape in detail using aerial imagery
9. The future of aerial archaeology
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Learning Outcomes
• Appreciate the historical development of aerial archaeology in Britain and more widely.
• Understand the principle types of archaeological evidence seen on aerial photographs and how this evidence is used by archaeologists.
• Be able to look at, critically assess and sketch plot archaeological evidence on aerial imagery.
• Be familiar with some non-photographic techniques for examining landscape from the air.
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Learning Experience• Informal Lecture
• Discussion
• Applied skills
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Barber, M. (2011). A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology: Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories. English Heritage. [KEY TEXT] Crawford, O. G. S., & Keiller, A. (1928). Wessex from the Air. Clarendon Press. Greene, K., & Moore, T. (2010). Archaeology: an introduction. Routledge. Hauser, K. (2008). Bloody Old Britain: OGS Crawford and the archaeology of modern life. Granta UK. Riley, D. N. (1987). Air photography and archaeology. Duckworth. Riley, D. N., Samuels, J., & May, J. (1980). Early Landscape from the Air: studies of crop marks in South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire. Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Sheffield. Whimster, R. (1989). The emerging past. RCHME (English Heritage), London.
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Reading and Books
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Reading and Books
Course bookshop (Amazon)
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/hoskins-21
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Course Web Site
• Lecture Slides
• Downloadable handouts
• Bookshop
• Resources
• Supplementary Material
• Answers
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Options
• Existing group knowledge and skills…?
• Interests and preferences
• Themes and skills…?
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Section 1: What is Aerial Archaeology?
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
Techniques: Conventional Photographic
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Alexander Keiller, Wessex From the Air (1928)
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
Techniques: Active Survey (Lidar/radar)
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
Techniques: MS and Space Based Imaging
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Worldview 2
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
Techniques: The future, UAVs and more
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
What can you see from the air?
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
What can you see from the air?
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
What can you see from the air?
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Roman Fort, Newton Kyme, Yorks
Cropmarks
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
What can you see from the air?
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Soilmarks Shadow Sites
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
Making Sense of Landscape
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Caistor Roman Fort, Norfolk
An English Heritage, National Mapping Programme cropmark plot, the result of analysis of numerous photographs taken over many years.
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What is Aerial Archaeology?
A distinct discipline?
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COFFEE BREAK
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Feedback: Themes and Choices
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Section 2: From Wessex to the Middle East, early pioneers
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
The Aerial View
•William Stukeley
•Avebury (1743)
•Primacy of aerial viewpoint in landscape ascetics
•Romantics vision from above
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Origins
•Civilian and military ballooning from 1860s onward
•Cpt Henry Elsdale Series of air photographs of military sites in 1880s
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Origins•Lt Henry Sharpe first aerial photograph of an archaeological site•Royal Engineers, 1906 Stonehenge photographs•Published in Archaeologia in 1907, but little impact
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Aerial Photography in the Great War
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• Although many individual balloon, kite and aircraft enthusiasts took photographs in the early 20th century, air-photography came into its own in the Great War
• Many early archaeologists were first exposed to air photography and its potential as part of their war service
• The technology of flight, photography and interpretation developed immensely as war progressed
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Aerial Photography in the Great War
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• Early photography by RFC officers ad hoc and unofficial
• Official recognition followed and photography became a part of the process of identifying enemy deployments and positions
• Mapping both British and German trench networks and of production of up to date maps was a key function of aerial photography (Many French maps were Napoleonic in origin!)
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Aerial Photography in the Great War
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• The role of the observer/gunner/photographer developed
• Key to the advancement of the use of photographs was the development of techniques of interpretation and the role of the experienced air photograph interpreter
• Individual service personnel began to notice archaeological features during military flights and on military photographs
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
OGS Crawford and the British Revolution
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• OGS Crawford (1886-1957)
• The eccentric pioneer of aerial archaeology and the practice of archaeology in the field (as opposed to excavation)
• A varied pre-war career as a geographer and archaeologist, partly in the Middle East
• War service in the RFC as an observer/mapper
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
OGS Crawford and the British Revolution
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• Post WW1 became first Ordnance Survey archaeologist
• Instrumental in updating mapping of antiquities on OS maps
• Made full use of OS resources and a network of amateur pilot/photographers to investigate archaeology from the air
• Founded journal Antiquity in 1927, published many results of early air photography
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
OGS Crawford and the British Revolution
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Alexander Keiller
• Working with philanthropist Alexander Keiller researched and published Wessex from the Air in 1928
• Involved in Keiller’s work at Avebury
• Instrumental in discovery of Woodhenge from the air
• Codified the practice of air photographs in archaeology for first time
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
OGS Crawford and the British Revolution
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• An eccentric figure (Uncle Oggs) but hugely influential on a generation of young interwar archaeologists that shaped the development of British archaeology
• A utopian communist, acolyte of HG Wells and friend of V. Gordon Childe
• From a generation that believed the past was fully knowable and archaeological knowledge finite.
• Air photographs was his lens on the past
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Antoine Poidebard, surveying the Levant
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• 1878 – 1955
• Jesuit missionary priest working in Armenia in 1904
• Worked for the French military mission to the Caucuses from 1917
• French representative to the Armenian government
• Helped rescue Armenians from Turkish genocide in 1924
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Antoine Poidebard, surveying the Levant
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• Identified faint traces of ancient structures from the air during flights across desert
• Working in Lebanon with the French air force from 1925
• He developed new techniques of air photography relying on low oblique light to reveal faint features
• Poidebard’s techniques relied on precise flying, innovative photographic emulsions, filters and techniques to accentuate slight details on the ground
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Antoine Poidebard, surveying the Levant
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• Working on Syria in the 1920s
• Between 1925 and 1932 fixed the route of the imperial limes of Bosra in the central desert of Syria around Palmyra
• From 1932 to 1942 his work focused on Roman remains in the Euphrates and the Orontes valleys
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Antoine Poidebard, surveying the Levant
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• In the 1930s his attention turned to North Africa
• He flew extensively in what is now Libya photographing Phoenician ports
• Working with French navy divers he identified submerged remains of former Phoenician towns and cities
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Antoine Poidebard, surveying the Levant
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• Legacy an extraordinary collection of photographs documenting a now largely lost landscape
• Technical mastery and innovation
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Pioneers of Aerial Archaeology
Aerial Archaeology by 1939
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• By the outbreak of WW2 in 1939 aerial photography a mature, technically advanced discipline
• The strategic and tactical importance of air photography to the military recognised
• The use of aerial survey and the types of archaeological phenomena visible on photographs reasonable well understood
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• It even found its way into popular fiction
• Neville Shute – So Distained (1928),
• An Old Captivity (1940)
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Further Study
• Suggested Reading
Barber, M. (2011). A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology: Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories. English Heritage.
Hauser, K. (2009). Bloody Old Britain: OGS Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life By. Granta Books.
Shute, N. (1940 – republished 2009). An Old Captivity. Vintage Books. London.
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