While the site concept continues to be fundamental to archaeology there are a number of
known practical and theoretical problems with sites as units of observation. In the digital age …

The three-dimensional (3D) revolution promised to transform archaeological practice. Of the
technologies that contribute to the proliferation of 3D data, photogrammetry facilitates the …

Featured Application UAV-SfM was applied for generating 3D pagoda models in Thailand.
Abstract As a novel innovative technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are …

Airborne laser scanning has proven useful for rapid and extensive documentation of historic
cultural landscapes after years of applications mapping natural landscapes and the built …

New fieldwork at Ur has begun to investigate urban scale, city organization, and the
environment of the city's hinterland. Analysis of new sources of declassified aerial and …

Spatial data, under the broader umbrella of digital data, is becoming increasingly integral to
all stages of archaeological research design and dissemination. As archaeologists lean …

Many rocks, minerals, and soil types reflect short-wave infrared (SWIR) imagery (900–2500
nm) in distinct ways, and geologists have long relied on this property to aid in the mapping of …

The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) investigates settlement and land use from the
Neolithic to the present in the Erbil Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which …

Abstract The incorporation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within archaeological
survey strategies over the past several years has broadened the geographical scale of …

Geographic information systems (GIS) has been used in archaeology for four decades, and
colloquially appears to have become a main tool in the geospatial aspects of archaeological …