From the air : understanding aerial archaeology / edited by Kenneth Brophy & Dave Cowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brophy, Kenneth.

Cowley, David, 1966-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aerial photography in archaeology.

Photographic interpretation.

Physical Description:

190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Stroud : Tempus, 2005.

Summary:

Aerial photography is one of the most important and cost-effective ways of recording traces of the past and discovering new sites. It also offers the archaeologist an alternative viewpoint on these archaeological traces, and is one of the most exciting and challenging types of fieldwork. The experiences of the contributors to this volume highlight the role that bias, subjectivity, and perception play in the shaping of flights and in the results themselves. They draw on important aspects of archaeological fieldwork such as experience, intuition, improvisation, emotion, and stress, which are all too often left unarticulated. These contributions from the practitioners, photographers, and interpreters that form the aerial archaeological community present a counterpoint to the traditional textbook.

Contents:

1 From the air - an introduction / Kenneth Brophy, David C. Cowley 11

2 The pregnant jewel: on the track of the past / Gordon S. Maxwell 24

3 Subjectivity, bias and perception in aerial archaeology / Kenneth Brophy 33

4 Some observations on the nature of aerial survey / David C. Cowley, Simon M.D. Gilmour 50

5 Bias in aerial reconnaissance / David R. Wilson 64

6 Sun, sand and see: creating bias in the archaeological record / W.S. Hanson 73

7 The advantages of bias in Roman studies / Rebecca H. Jones 86

8 'If they used their own photographs they wouldn't take them like that' / Rog Palmer 94

9 Bias and the world of the vertical aerial photograph / Jessica Mills 117

10 Recording upland landscapes: a personal account from Northumberland / Tim Gates 127

11 Patterns of aerial photography in the Central Midlands of England: evaluating biases in past programmes of aerial reconnaissance and their potential impact / Matthew Oakey 141

12 Tradition in power: vicious circle(s) of aerial survey in Poland / Wlodek Raczkowski 151

13 Using photography in archaeology / Andrew Baines 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0752431307

OCLC:

59353599