Preparing an archaeological field survey: Remote sensing interpretation for herding structures in the Southern Levant
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2016
- handle: 10670/1.qaja87
- hal: hal-02100810
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Levant Southern structures herding interpretation sensing Remote survey field archaeological PreparingSujets proches
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Arnaud Ansart et al., « Preparing an archaeological field survey: Remote sensing interpretation for herding structures in the Southern Levant », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.qaja87
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Development of archaeological “virtual surveys” using online satellite imagery allows the identification of an increasing number and diversity of data. Coherent procedures are now essential in the preparation of any field study: estimating archaeological potential, gathering and mapping environmental features, and building hypotheses about settlement location and settlement patterns. In this article, we propose methods aimed at developing tools to describe and measure the different elements of pastoral archaeological structures in southern Syria, and quantifying the importance of these structures in the landscape and natural environment. Our thematic case study is the pastoral settlement pattern in the Leja, a basaltic region in southern Syria.