Aerial reconnaissance over England in summer 1996

Structure of an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Inferred from Ground‐Penetrating Radar Imaging of Deflected Overburden Horizons

“…A classic example of such diagnostic signals is the use of cropmarks to delineate archaeological targets (e.g. Featherstone et al ., ). Equally, from a GPR perspective, the detection of graves (both modern and recent) typically relies not on imaging the human remains but on inferring a burial from the disturbance to overlying soil horizons (Bevan, ; Bladon et al ., ).…”

Aerial and Remote Sensing Archaeology

“…Consequently, the numerous detections of monuments, which were held in parallel with the evolution of imaging systems, led to the global acceptance of aerial archaeology in the early 1980s, as a basic archaeology prospection tool. The prolonged dry summers of the 1990s in England, allowed for the emergence of a large number of covered structures in Cherwell Valley Trail (England), North Oxford (Bewley, 2003;Featherstone, 1999).…”

Ancient waste pits with wood ash irreversibly increase crop production in Central Europe

“…This indicates that the presence of subsoil archeological features in arable fields can substantially increase crop production. This is consistent with results reported by other authors using aerial photographs of cropmarks for the identification of subsoil archeological features (Featherstone et al 1999;Hašek and Kovárník 1999;Challis et al 2009;Gallo et al 2009;Gojda and John 2009;Fassbinder 2010). The high density of subsoil archeological features in the lowlands of Central Europe (see Gojda 2004;Hejcman and Smrž 2010) is thus responsible for an indispensable proportion of spatial variability in crop production, although this variability has never been investigated previously.…”