A Beginner's Reading List
Introduction to Aerial Archaeology
Written in English, this web site covers the basics of aerial survey and ALS ad shows uses of these in landscape archaeology.
- Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P., 2012. Archaeology: theories, methods and practice (6th edition). Thames and Hudson: London.
Especially chapter ‘Aerial Survey’, pages 80-93; the next edition should be published in 2019.
Photo Reading Examples
- Wilson, D.R., 2000. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists. Tempus, Stroud.
Informative Stuff
Topics of interest may be found in the Capture, Interpret and Case Studies pages.
- Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (ed), 2005. From The Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Tempus, Stroud.
AARGnews is open access to all issues in PDF form on this website
Using Archival Images
- Cowley, D. (ed), 2005. From The Air: Understanding Aerial Archaeology. Tempus, Stroud.
ALS (LiDAR)
Use of Satellite Imagery
- Comer, D.C. and Harrower, M.J. (ed), 2013. Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space. Springer: New York.
UAVs or Drones
Papers and Abstracts
Compiled by Irwin Scollar, Rog Palmer, Michael Doneus, John Haigh, Kevin MacLeod and Dave Cowley
Compiled by Irwin Scollar
by Martin Fowler, in AARGnews33
by Ulrich Kiesow (archaeoflug) – PDF Size: 800KB
by R. Bewley and Ch. Musson. This project was only made possible with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union
England: a cropmark landscape in three dimensions, by Davy Strachan
An annotated bibliography
Göteborg, Thursday, 24th September, 1998
- Where on Earth is it?
Irwin Scollar’s solutions to problems caused by different national map projections and their incorporation in Airphoto