[BOOK][B] Satellite remote sensing for archaeology

SH Parcak - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for
archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across …

Water management in Mesopotamia from the sixth till the first millennium BC

S Rost - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The organization of ancient water control and irrigation has been a matter of debate in
particular with regard to the role of the state. More often than not a deeply centralized …

Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

A Sinha, G Kathayat, H Weiss, H Li, H Cheng… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Northern Iraq was the political and economic center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 912 to
609 BCE)—the largest and most powerful empire of its time. After more than two centuries of …

Early urbanism in northern Mesopotamia

A McMahon - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2020 - Springer
Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent
excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with …

Stereo analysis, DEM extraction and orthorectification of CORONA satellite imagery: archaeological applications from the Near East

J Casana, J Cothren - Antiquity, 2008 - cambridge.org
CORONA satellite imagery, preserving an account of the earth's surface from 40 years ago,
is a most important archaeological survey tool and we have often sung its praises. Here the …

Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: A first approximation

D Lawrence, G Philip, H Hunt, L Snape-Kennedy… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Over the last 8000 years the Fertile Crescent of the Near East has seen the emergence of
urban agglomerations, small scale polities and large territorial empires, all of which had …

The fruits of migration: Understanding the 'longue dureé'and the socio-economic relations of the Early Transcaucasian Culture

SD Batiuk - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2013 - Elsevier
The appearance of the Early Transcaucasian Culture (ETC) across large portions of the
Near East in the 3rd millennium BC is commonly cited as one of the best archaeologically …

Use of time-series NDWI to monitor emerging archaeological sites: Case studies from Iraqi artificial reservoirs

A Titolo - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last 50 years, countries across North Africa and the Middle East have seen a
significant increase in dam construction which, notwithstanding their benefits, have …

A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems

L Sha, S Mahata, P Duan, B Luz, P Zhang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
We present triple oxygen isotope data from speleothems obtained by an O 2-CO 2 Pt-
catalyzed oxygen-isotope equilibration method. The high precision (9 per meg or better, 1σ …

Contributions of GIS and satellite-based remote sensing to landscape archaeology in the Middle East

C Hritz - Journal of Archaeological research, 2014 - Springer
This article explores the coevolution of landscape approaches and geospatial tools in
Middle Eastern archaeology. From the first aerial reconnaissance programs, archaeologists …