LiDAR Applications in Archaeology: A Systematic Review

G Vinci, F Vanzani, A Fontana… - Archaeological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last two decades, the analysis of data derived from LiDAR (light detection and
ranging) technology has dramatically changed the investigation and documentation of past …

“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa

E Hallinan - African Archaeological Review, 2022 - Springer
Surveys are an important reconnaissance tool in African archaeology, but surface-oriented
research is still relatively limited. Thirty years on from John Bower's “survey of surveys,” this …

Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia

M Fradley, F Simi, M Guagnin - The Holocene, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Remote-sensing analysis of open-source satellite imagery has identified a major, new
distribution of undocumented hunting kite structures in northern Arabia. This new data has …

Wonderboompoort, South Africa: A natural game funnel for meat harvesting during the later Acheulean

M Lombard, MG Lotter, MV Caruana - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We revisit Wonderboompoort, South Africa, in terms of its potential to have served
as a natural game funnel during the Pleistocene later Acheulean. The geological and …

Revisiting Middle Stone Age hunting at≠ GI, Botswana: A tip cross-sectional area study

M Lombard, S Churchill - Southern African Field Archaeology, 2022 - journals.uj.ac.za
≠ Gi was excavated almost half-a-century ago. Despite no formally published analyses of its
lithic and faunal assemblages, the site has been important to discussions about …

Faunal exploitation strategies during the later Pleistocene in southern Africa

GL Dusseldorp, JP Reynard - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2022 - oxfordre.com
Summary Analysis of Late Pleistocene fauna exploitation (~ 130,000–12,000 years ago) in
southern Africa is of global academic relevance. Faunal analyses from southern African sites …

A preliminary report of the excavation at Spitzkloof D rockshelter, Namaqualand, South Africa

C Hopper, G Dewar - Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023 - journals.uj.ac.za
This paper describes the first excavations of Spitzkloof D rockshelter located in the semi-arid
desert of northern Namaqualand, South Africa. The site is in a dry river valley 30 km south of …

[PDF][PDF] COMBINED GROUND PENETRATING RADAR AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEST EXCAVATIONS AT SITES DR-F2 AND DR-F7 (ECPHRA PERMIT NO. 35/4/23 …

J Peyroutet, K van Ryneveld, D Fourie - SIGNATURE, 2024 - researchgate.net
F2: Possible Human Burial Site (S33. 58707 E25. 47629). This feature comprise a single
circular stone cairn located along the proposed route for the OHL line. The cairn measures …

Using aerial survey to record new sites in the Keimoes kite landscape of South Africa

MG Lotter, T Forssman, S Bielderman… - Southern African Field …, 2023 - journals.uj.ac.za
The recent identification of kite sites on the Keimoes landscape, in the Northern Cape
Province of South Africa, has shed light on how past populations built and utilised low stone …

[PDF][PDF] The nineteenth century Matabele settlements on the South African Highveld

RH Van der Merwe - 2023 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
The rise of the Zulu kingdom in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has been a topic of historical
research since the 1870s and coincided with increased conflict within the area. The …