The Middle Draa Project (Morocco): results from the survey and trial excavations 2015–18

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
David J. Mattingly ◽  
Youssef Bokbot ◽  
Martin Sterry
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Long Valley ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
Oasis Agriculture

AbstractThe Middle Draa Project (2015–18) is a pioneering survey of the archaeology of a c.200 km long valley at the northern edge of the Moroccan Sahara. Combining mapping from satellite imagery, field survey and trial excavation, the project has established a new baseline for the region's archaeological heritage. This paper concentrates on the main results in relation to the Protohistoric (Iron Age) phase, when the first steps towards sedentarisation and oasis agriculture appear to have been taken.

SHALLOW WATER HABITAT MAPPING AND REEF FISH STOCK ESTIMATION USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincentius P. Siregar ◽  
Sam Wouthuyzen ◽  
Andriani Sunuddin ◽  
Ari Anggoro ◽  
Ade Ayu Mustika
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Coral Cover ◽  
Fish Density ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Benthic Habitat ◽  
Live Coral ◽  
Stock Estimation

Shallow marine waters comprise diverse benthic types forming habitats for reef fish community, which important for the livelihood of coastal and small island inhabitants. Satellite imagery provide synoptic map of benthic habitat and further utilized to estimate reef fish stock. The objective of this research was to estimate reef fish stock in complex coral reef of Pulau Pari, by utilizing high resolution satellite imagery of the WorldView-2 in combination with field data such as visual census of reef fish. Field survey was conducted between May-August 2013 with 160 sampling points representing four sites (north, south, west, and east). The image was analy-zed and grouped into five classes of benthic habitats i.e., live coral (LC), dead coral (DC), sand (Sa), seagrass (Sg), and mix (Mx) (combination seagrass+coral and seagrass+sand). The overall accuracy of benthic habitat map was 78%. Field survey revealed that the highest live coral cover (58%) was found at the north site with fish density 3.69 and 1.50 ind/m2at 3 and 10 m depth, respectively. Meanwhile, the lowest live coral cover (18%) was found at the south site with fish density 2.79 and 2.18  ind/m2 at 3 and 10 m depth, respectively. Interpolation on fish density data in each habitat class resulted in standing stock reef fish estimation:  LC (5,340,698 ind), DC (56,254,356 ind), Sa (13,370,154 ind), Sg (1,776,195 ind) and Mx (14,557,680 ind). Keywords: mapping, satellite imagery, benthic habitat, reef fish, stock estimation

An Iron-Age Site near Radley, Berks.

1931 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-404
Author(s):  
E. Thurlow Leeds
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
The South ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
South West ◽  
Westerly Direction ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
A Site

In 1928 by courteous permission of Mr. Badcock, the owner, the Oxford University Archaeological Society, under the supervision of Mr. R. T. Lattey, was able to examine a site in a field bounded on the west by the road leading from Radley village to Abingdon and on the south by a second road leading eastwards towards Radley station. There, on the wall of a disused gravelpit, holes filled with earth had produced evidence of human occupation. Exploration of some of these resulted in the discovery of a series of trenches, the relation of which to one another could not be exactly determined owing to the limited area available for investigation. One piece of trench ran with a somewhat north-easterly trend up to the northern edge of the field, with a recessed pit about 4½ ft. across at one point, while a second longer stretch, after running in a north-westerly direction for a few yards, turned almost at right angles towards the south-west, and some distance farther on, at the point where the excavations had to cease, appeared to be bending southwards.

scholarly journals Sites of archaeology in Ulvivok and its surroundings in the research of Lviv scientists

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Dmytro Pavliv
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Large River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Village

The old village of Ulvivok, located above the Bug River in Sokal district, Lviv region, is extremely rich with archaeological sites. Relief, favourable for living, fertile soils, large river have contributed to appearing of human settlements on this area since ancient times. This fact is witnessed by finds of numerous archaeological artifacts near Ulvivok and discovery of significant archaeological sites – cemeteries and settlements, which have an interesting history of research since the late XIX century and till nowadays, associated with many famous Lviv scientists. An important role in the preservation and study of local archaeological finds was played by Dzieduszycki Museum. The first references to finds from Ulvivok and the surrounding villages – Horodylovychi, Stargorod, Skomorokhy and Telyazh – are found at the works of local historian B. Sokalski and geologist A. Lomnitcki, published in 1899. J. Nykorovych – the owner of the village and amateur archaeologist contributed noticeably preservation and research of sites during XIX – beginning of XX century. The first extensive exploration in Ulvivok in 1923 was conducted by archaeologist and local historian, guardian of the prehistoric monuments of Lviv district B. Janusz, who discovered a tomb of Globular Amphorae culture and part of the burials of the most famous archaeological sites near Ulvivok – inhumation cemetery from the end of Bronze Age of “Ulvivok-Rovantsi type”. The same cemetery was investigated in 1931 by archaeologist T. Sulimirski, who published the results of excavations. Local archaeological finds were studied by famous Ukrainian archaeologist J. Pasternak, J. Bryk, K. Żurowski, J. Dąmbrowski, I. Sveshnikov, L. Krushelnytska. Nowadays, the exploration work was conducted by N. Wojceschuk, surveys in Ulvivok, Horodylovychi, Stargorod and excavation of Early Iron Age site were carried out by D. Pavliv. At least 14 archaeological sites (8 settlements and 6 cemeteries) and about 100 individual finds have been found on the territory of the village and surrounding area. This territory on the western part of Ukraine is extremely rich with archaeological sites of almost all epochs. It is witnessed by the great historical importance of this region and requires continuation of professional archaeological examinations and protective actions for the preservation of archaeological heritage. Key words: Ulvivok, archaeological site, Lviv scientists, Globular Amphorae culture, burial complex of Ulvivok-Rovantsi type.

Settlement and economy in a changing prehistoric lowland landscape: an East Yorkshire (UK) case study

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Halkon ◽  
Jim Innes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Northern Shore

This article assesses the major changes in landscape and coastline, which took place in an area adjacent to the northern shore of the inner estuary of the river Humber, in East Yorkshire, UK, from the beginning of the Holocene to the Iron Age. It considers the effect of these changes on material culture as represented by artefact distributions, including flint assemblages and polished stone tools located during field survey. The conclusions presented here derive from a continuing programme of research in this study area and they are placed in the context of the wider Humber region and the North Sea Basin. This article advocates a restoration of balance with regard to geographical determinism – a new pragmatism – accepting that environmental factors have a great importance in determining the nature and location of certain activities in the past, though cannot be used to explain them all.

Climate disturbance impact assessment in West Africa: evidence from field survey and satellite imagery analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (21) ◽  
pp. 26315-26331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ousmane Traore ◽  
Wei Chang ◽  
Abdul Rehman ◽  
Seydou Traore ◽  
Abdul Rauf
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Field Survey

Desert Migrations Project XVIII: The archaeology of the northern Fazzan. A preliminary report

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Merlo ◽  
Susanne Hakenbeck ◽  
Andrea Luca Balbo
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historic Period ◽  
Reconnaissance Survey ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Imagery

AbstractThe first reconnaissance survey of the Wadi ash-Shati, the northernmost line of the oases of the Fazzan, was carried out in 2007 and 2008. This survey aimed to locate archaeological sites of the Garamantian and historic periods in a region that, despite being on record as the most populated of the Fazzan in the historic period, was never previously systematically surveyed. Following the field survey, further examination of high-resolution satellite imagery was carried out. This allowed for the discovery of more sites and the detailed tracing of a number of cemeteries that were only partially surveyed during fieldwork. The report presents the first cross-chronological map of the Wadi ash-Shati and some interpretations of the history of occupation of the area. The future investigation of specific sites, a structured dating programme and further, more detailed, study of historic sources will provide a fuller understanding of this region.

scholarly journals A Later prehistoric house and Early Medieval buildings in Northern Scotland: excavations at Loch Shurrery and Lambsdale Leans, Caithness, 1955, with a note on Lower Dounreay

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair MacLaren ◽  
Ewan Campbell ◽  
Gordon Cook ◽  
Janet Hooper ◽  
L Wells ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
The South ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Northern Edge

Two rescue excavations at the northern edge of a rather sparsely occupied part of the interior of Caithness are reported here, lying near to one of the largest clusters of archaeological sites in the modern county. In the event, the monuments were not threatened, and survive.Because of the limited nature of the excavation at Loch Shurrery (NGR ND 043568),the main value of the evidence about the hut circle relates to its structure and dating. The excavated remains represented a medium-sized oval house with a west-facing entrance. It had an off-centre hearth of rectangular construction. It was rather different in structure to the majority of the small group of such sites which have been excavated in the northern part of the Scottish mainland, as it did not appear to have an internal ring of post holes. In addition, its western entrance is not matched at the other sites, where entrance orientations are to the south, east or south-east. The wall of the Loch Shurrery house was fairly thick and the excavation suggested that it was complex, while the entrance passageway was quite long. The existence of door checks is also an unusual feature and may relate to the entrance structures of brochs and other substantial roundhouses. Two samples of charcoal from the hearth inside the hut circle were submitted for radiocarbon dating: the determinations produce calibrated ranges (at 2-sigma) of 346-4 cal BC and 341 cal BC-1 cal AD. It is likely that most of the excavated, undecorated pottery is also Iron Age, part of a broad tradition of very coarsely tempered pottery. Not-withstanding evidence of extended occupation, the whole period of construction and occupation may have occurred within the Iron Age.The mound of Lambsdale Leans (NGR ND 051548)lies in Reay parish, situated on low-lying ground at the head of Loch Shurrery and close to where its main tributary (the Torran Water) enters the loch from the south. The main characteristics of the this partially-excavated site are the presence of what appeared to be two extended inhumations and the remnants of possible structures associated with several layers of burnt material. Lambsdale Leans itself was a natural mound, of elongated shape and composed largely of sand, into which were set the burials and structural remains. The burials (one certainly female, the other probably so) were not in cists. The structural remains, while not fully excavated, accord well with the general tenor of the available evidence of later first millennium AD buildings in the north of Scotland. Both structures at Lambsdale Leans had floors comprising roughly laid paving, edged with upright slabs, and with an outer kerb of stones. The earliest-dated pottery sherds, unstratified, are from a single grass- tempered handmade vessel whose form cannot be determined. Overall,on one interpretation the Lambsdale Leans evidence favours a context within the Early Medieval period in Caithness. The pottery however, being mostly C12-C13 oxidised wheel-thrown vessels, can be seen to support the suggestion that occupation on the site may have begun in the Medieval period.

Mediterranen archaeology - OLIVER Dickinson. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. xvi+298 pages, 57 illustrations, 2 tables. 2006. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-13589-4 hardback; 978-0-415-13590-0 paperback £16.99; 978-0-203-96836 e-book. - D. Evely (ed.). LefkandiIV. The Bronze Age: The Late Helladic IIIC Settlement at Xeropolis (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 39). xviii+332 pages, 104 figures, 103 plates, CD-ROM. 2006. London: British School at Athens; 0-904887-51-0 hardback £98 + p&p. - CATIE Mihalopoulos. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 29: Cypriote Antiquities in Collections in Southern California (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XX, 29). 64 pages, 54 plates. 2006. Savedalen: Paul Astrom; 978-91-7081-220-0 paperback. - Peter Attema, Albert Nijboer & Andrea Zifferero (ed). Papers in Italian Archaeology VI. Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval period (Proceedings of the 6th Conference ofItalian Archaeologyheldat the University ofGroningen, Groningen Institute ofArchaeology, The Netherlands, April 15-17, 2003) (British Archaeological Report International Series 1452 I & II). xx+1080 pages, numerous illustrations & tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-888-2 paperback £120 (both volumes). - Stephan Steingräber, translated by Russell Stockman. Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic period (published in Italian as Pittura murale etrusca by Arsenale, Verona 2006). 328 pages, 250 colour illustrations. 2006, Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-0-89236-865-5 hardback £80. - John R. Patterson. Landscapes & Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformations in Early Imperial Italy. xiv+348 pages, 17 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-8140887 hardback £60. - Richard Hodges. Eternal Butrint: A UNESCO World heritage Site in Albania. xiv+256 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Butrint Foundation//General Penne; 978905680-01-6 hardback. - Arthur Evans. Ancient Illyria: An Archaeological Exploration (first published as Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum in Archaeologia 1885 & 1886; other paper in Numismatic Chronicle 1880 and introduction by John Wilkes in Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, London 1976). xxii+340 pages, 143 illustrations. 2006. London; I.B. Tauris/Centre for Albanian Studies; 978-84511-167-0 hardback £45. - Branko Kirigin, Nikša Vujnović, Slobodan Čače, Vincent Gaffney, Tomaž Podobnikar, Zoran Stančič & Josip Burmaz (ed. by Vincent Gaffney & Branco Kirigin). The AdriaticIslands Project Volume 3. The Archaeological Heritage of Vis, Biševo, Svetac, Palagruža and Štolta (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1492). iv+240 pages, 24 figures, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Archaeo-press; 1-84171-923-4 paperback £38. - Dominique Pieri. Le commerce du vin oriental ài l’époque Byzantine (Vè-VIIèsiècles): le temoignage des amphores en Gaule (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 174). vi+350 pages, 199 illustrations, 9 tables. 2005. Beyrouth; Institut Francais du Proche-Orient; 2-912738-30-X paperback €40.

Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (311) ◽  
pp. 246-247
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Wall Painting ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
British School

The Archaeology of Greece and Rome

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Art History ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Of Greece

Over his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists .In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.

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