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TimeMap Project

http://www.timemap.net/

The TimeMap project is researching methods for recording, indexing, analysing and delivering archaeological data with spatial and temporal components. Free TMJava software download.

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The Sky's Eyes: Remote Sensing in Archaeology

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/tools/

NOVA Online article that describes the remote sensing techniques used to find "The Lost City" of Ubar.

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The Aerial Archaeology Newsletter

http://www.nmia.com/~jaybird/AANewsletter/TableOfContents.html

A single issue by Baker Aerial Photography in 1996 discusses the history, methodology and uses of aerial photography for archaeology, with examples.

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Space Radar Laboratory Images of Angkor, Cambodia

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/angkor.html

Images from the international Space Radar Laboratory may help researchers find previously unknown settlements near the ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia.

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Securing a Future for Essex's Past

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1099/essex.html

Article from ArcUser magazine on the use of GIS by the County Council's Archaeology Section.

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Resistivity Survey of the Nevis Jewish Cemetery

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~terre011/Resistivity.html

The information on this page is taken from "'What are you doing?': Examining a colonial period Jewish cemetery in the Caribbean", a paper given by Michelle Terrell at the 31st Annual Meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

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Remote Sensing Archeology Research at NASA

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/archeology.html

NASA uses remote sensing for archeology research in the Peten Guatemala, Arenal region of Costa Rica, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.

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Remote Sensing and Archaeology: The Chora of Chersonesos

http://www.csr.utexas.edu/rs/research/arch/

The Center for Space Research and the University of Texas Institute of Classical Archaeology project investigating the use of remote sensing in a comprehensive regional study of the ancient Greek agricultural territory. Includes an area description and historical background, excavation sites, remotely sensed data.

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Pitcalc

http://www.pitcalc.com/

Computer program written to assist in the planning of archaeological discoveries in difficult field situations. Includes its method, projects, photos, and download instructions.

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North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

http://www.cast.uark.edu/nadag/

Database and website that aims to promote use, education, communication, and a knowledge base of the practice of archaeological geophysics in North America. Image library, projects database, bibliography, educational materials, instruments and manufacturer, practitioners, and events.

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New Zealand Archaeology: The Aerial View

http://nzarchaeology.org/aerial/opacs.html

The aerial photographs in this compendium are oblique or low oblique (near vertical) images taken by Kevin L. Jones.

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Ground-Penetrating Radar in Archaeology

http://mysite.du.edu/~lconyer/

Introduction to using radar geophysics to locate and map buried archaeological features. Includes links to sites on which GPR has been used.

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GISarch Discussion List

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/gisarch.html

This list is intended to facilitate discussion between archaeologists making use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.

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GIS Guide to Good Practice

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/

Document designed specifically to provide guidance for individuals and organisations involved in the creation, maintenance, use and long-term preservation of GIS-based digital resources.

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GIS for Archaeology

http://www.esri.com/industries/archaeology

The uses of Geographic Information Systems in archaeology presented by ESRI, publisher of ArcGIS.

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GIS Dictionary

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/

This on-line dictionary of GIS terms is funded by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography.

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GIS and Remote Sensing:Burgundy, France

http://www.informatics.org/france/france.html

Detailed information regarding a multi-disciplinary research project: Applications of Geomatics for Long Term Regional Archaeological Settlement Pattern Analysis.

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GIS and Remote Sensing for Archaeology

http://www.informatics.org/france/

A long-term project by Dr. Scott Madry on the applications of remote sensing and GIS in the Burgundy region of France. Methodology, bibliography

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Geophysical Prospection of Archaeological Sites

http://www.archaeogeophysics.info/

Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg gives examples of the use of geomagnetics, geoelectrics, electromagnetic induction and ground penetrating radar in Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany.

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Geomatics at Birchtown

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/arch/sites/btown/pages/gis.html

GIS and remote sensing technologies were used to explore and analyze the spatial and attribute information at Birchtown and to geo-correct the only known copy of a late eighteenth century land grants map of Birchtown, known as the Goulden Map.

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Digital Technologies at the Colesseum and the Baths of Caracalla

http://www.siggraph.org/~fujii/campfire/archaeology/html/052200_4.html

Presentation of the results of a Virtual Heritage project to scan the architecture of the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum. The work utilized long range laser scanning to capture detailed model data of the structures.

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