LANDSCAPES THROUGH THE LENS. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT edited by. David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring and Matthew ...
LANDSCAPES THROUGH THE LENS AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT
edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring and Matthew J. Abicht
OXBOW BOOKS
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Front cover: Étang de Montady, Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. A remarkable pattern of field boundaries created in the 13th century on a reclaimed lake photographed on 6 August 1944. Drains converge on the circle which lies at the centre of the former lake, with water then transported out of the shallow basin through a tunnel 1.3km long under the Hill of Malpas. TARA_MAPRW_106G_1960_4175, © Crown Copyright, RCAHMS Back cover: Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, is a claimant to the title of oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world. The modern city is still dominated by the ancient tell, recorded here on 22 October 1948 when still a relatively small town. RAF_13A/131_3144, © Crown Copyright, RCAHMS
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Landscapes through the lens : aerial photographs and historic environment / edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring, and Matthew J. Abicht. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-84217-981-9 (pbk.) 1. Archaeology and history. 2. Archaeology--Methodology. 3. Aerial photographs. 4. Historic preservation. 5. Landscape changes. 6. Landscape protection. I. Cowley, David, 1966- II. Standring, Robin A. III. Abicht, Matthew J. CC77.H5L36 2010 930.1--dc22 2010030662
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Contents
Contributors Acknowledgements 1
Landscapes through the lens: an introduction David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring and Matthew J. Abicht
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MAPPING ARCHAEOLOGY 2
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National archives for national survey programmes: NMP and the English Heritage aerial photograph collection Helen Winton and Pete Horne
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The use of aerial photographs in the study of Early Iron Age settlement patterns in Western Jutland, Denmark Lis Helles Olesen
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Hidden and disappeared Mediterranean archaeo-landscapes revealed in historic aerial photographs Anke Stoker
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Uses of vertical photographs for archaeological studies in parts of lowland England Rog Palmer
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Old photographs and new imagery – archaeological interpretation and mapping Alison Deegan
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Lost And Found: John Bradford and aerial photographs of Italy and elsewhere from the 1940s Chris Musson and Francesca Franchin Radcliffe
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Rediscovering prehistoric earthworks in Ohio, USA: it all starts in the archives Jarrod Burks
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Ephemeral coastal defences of the two World Wars in North East England Cinzia Bacilieri and Roger J. C. Thomas
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Satellite imagery and archaeology Martin J. F. Fowler
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UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE CHANGE 11
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Reconstructing landscape evolution in the Lower Khuzestan plain (SW Iran): integrating imagery, historical and sedimentary archives Jan Walstra, Peter Verkinderen and Vanessa M. A. Heyvaert
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Land use and accelerated soil erosion by water in a small catchment on the South Downs, West Sussex, England – past and present Robert Evans
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Using historic aerial photographs for measuring change on the Antarctica Peninsula Adrian Fox, Alison Cook and Andreas Cziferszky
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Politics and landscape change in Poland: c.1940–2000 Jolanta Kijowska, Andrzej Kijowski and W odzimierz R czkowski
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Exploring rural landscapes in Sudanese Nubia David N. Edwards
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Contents The use of historical charts and photographs in ecosystem restoration: examples from the Everglades Historical Air Photo Project Thomas J. Smith III, Ginger Tiling-Range, John Jones, Paul Nelson, Ann Foster and Karen Balentine
179
ENGAGING WITH CULTURAL HERITAGE 17
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Archives and aerial imagery in Jordan: rescuing the archaeology of Greater Amman from rapid urban sprawl David Kennedy and Robert Bewley
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Rapid urbanization and cultural heritage management in Bahrain: reconstructing the original distribution of Bronze Age burial mounds from a 1959 aerial photograph archive Steffen Terp Laursen
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Engaging diverse audiences with aerial photographs Jane Golding
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MILITARY ARCHAEOLOGY 20
Great War aerial photographs: The Imperial War Museum’s Box Collection Birger Stichelbaut, Wouter Gheyle and Jean Bourgeois
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Italian aerial photographic archives: holdings and case studies Giuseppe Ceraudo and Elizabeth J. Shepherd
237
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US7GR LOC 349 3041 – one Saturday afternoon on the Home Front Cathy Stoertz
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World War II aerial photographs for military archaeology in Scotland David R. Easton
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Using wartime aerial photographs to locate lost grave sites Matthew J. Abicht
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The Holocaust from above: Auschwitz imagery and beyond Daniel Uziel
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GX of the Solovetskiye Islands, Russia: using World War II Luftwaffe aerial photographs Waclaw Godziemba-Maliszewski
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The Skrunda Hen Houses: a case study in Cold War satellite archaeology Martin J. F. Fowler
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year number 1934 18 1943 38 1945 12 1960 10 1968 2 1970 2 1972 7 1986 6 1993 6 1994 6 1999 11 2000 7 Total 125
original scale 18000 25000 42000 30000 15000 15000 40000 30000 20000 15000 6000 15000
source archive Greek Ministry of Environment and Public Works National Archives and Records Administration, Washington
Greek Geographic Military Service (HGMS)
Greek Ministry of Agriculture Greek Ministry of Environment and Public Works
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