Historical Aerial Imagery in Jordan and the Wider Middle East

Bewley, Robert; Kennedy, David

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4505-0_13

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“…The entire course of the road was inspected by our team (see Figure 19). Eight archaeological sites (AS 36-48), seven road remains (RR [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42], and one pottery finding (PF 8) were recorded. The road can clearly be divided into two sections: one part descending the western bank of the Wadi Nukhayla (see Figure 20), and another ascending the eastern bank of the Wadi Nukhayla (see Figure 21).…”

Section: Glueck's Roadmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of Ancient Pre-Roman Imperial Roads: A Case Study of the Application of Remote Sensing in Road Archaeology in the Southern Levant

Marciak,

Sobczyński,

Abadi

et al. 2023

Remote Sensing

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This paper presents a unique case of the application of remote sensing methods in archaeological survey devoted to ancient pre-Roman Imperial roads in the Southern Levant. The results of our preparatory remote sensing research and subsequent fieldwork in Jordan and Israel between 22 February and 23 March 2023, within the framework of the research project entitled “Travel and Mobility in Hellenistic and Early Roman Palestine”, are reported and discussed. Part of this project is a large-scale, systematic research attempt to discover additional ancient pre-Roman roads and to suggest a working methodology for future research. The methodology is supposed to combine remote sensing research and archaeological survey. The project’s first fieldwork achieved several goals. First, the modern methods enabled us to provide a high-resolution capture of the detected features and artifacts, including the courses of ancient roads and the locations of road-related archaeological sites. Altogether, 105 road remains, 62 archaeological sites, and 14 pottery findings were identified; what is more, 11 GPS (Global Positioning System) tracks of ancient roads were registered. Second, we suggested necessary revisions to the previous state of research and reported new findings. For instance, newly discovered rock art evidence found along Glueck’s Road confirms the continuity of the use of this road long into late antiquity and early Islam. Third, some methodological conclusions were reached. For example, a multi-source approach to identifying ancient roads including the use of archival cartographic sources, archival and modern satellite and aerial imagery, and the databases of archaeological sites is still necessary. However, there can be no doubt that spatial analyses and remote sensing studies must be accompanied by archaeological fieldwork, which is absolutely necessary for determining the dating of the roads (by dating the settlement and pottery) and a detailed identification of the road courses (particularly through the discovery of road-related infrastructure).

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Section: Glueck's Roadmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of Ancient Pre-Roman Imperial Roads: A Case Study of the Application of Remote Sensing in Road Archaeology in the Southern Levant

Marciak,

Sobczyński,

Abadi

et al. 2023

Remote Sensing

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“…[13][14][15][16][17]. Data sources which have made a significant contribution to this methodological approach are the satellite systems KH-9 Hexagon and Orbview-3 (whose images from the period of 2003-2007 have been made available through the American USGS) and, above all, historical aerial photographs, which have been collected in the Middle East since the first half of the 20th century [19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Case Study-kona Makhmūrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As older sources, images from the GX Luftwaffe reconnaissance collection and collections of the British Royal Air Force and the US Air Force have been used. The resolution of those images is mostly under 1 m, and in most cases, in centimeters [20]. Historical aerial photographs, together with satellite imagery, create a basic database of input source data for more detailed analyses of morphological aspects of archaeological sites, and their most significant application is in the area of research on deserted or still-occupied urban units ( Figure 1).…”

Section: Case Study-kona Makhmūrmentioning

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Toward a High-Definition Remote Sensing Approach to the Study of Deserted Medieval Cities in the Near East

Starková

2020

Geosciences

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The variability of currently available remote sensing datasets raises the question of which specific processing methods should be used for feature detection and feature extraction in both large and small-scale overhead images. In some cases, particular analyses allow us to carry out feature detection much more easily and effectively. The high-definition approach enables enhanced analysis of remote sensing data using all the spectral and graphical potential of multi-temporal ordered components. The deserted urban site of Kona Makhmūr, Iraqi Kurdistan, is taken as a case study to demonstrate this fine-grained approach. The analysis described in this paper is based on the complementary use of a variety of overlayed imagery, augmented by data from terrestrial surveys. The resulting map substantially enhances our knowledge of the built environment and the economic and environmental conditions of this early Islamic-period site. Spectral analysis of raster images allowed us to detect the real shapes of features, and with the addition of digital elevation model (DEM) (created via unmanned aerial system (UAV)) we were also able to interpret the state of preservation of the overground relics and the diachronic dynamics of their degradation.

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“…Furthermore, the ability of rainfed agroecosystems to withstand climatic changes, and economic and social shifts is documented (Shideed 2017;Wani, Rockström, and Oweis 2009). Studies have employed various data including historical surveys, archival photographs, maps, archeological studies, ethnographies and other materials to reconstruct agroecosystems over varying periods of time (Bewley et al 2010;;Hritz 2014;Lincoln and Ladefoged 2014;Lincoln, Chadwick, and Vitousek 2014;Manzano Agugliaro, Martínez García, and San Antonio Gomez 2012;Palmer 1994;Rautio et al 2015;Levin 2015, 2016;Zhang et al 2010).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Rainfed agroecosystem resilience in the Palestinian West Bank, 1918–2017

Tesdell

Othman²,

Alkhoury³

2018

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Research has shown that rai-fed (Baʿlī) cultivation provides a resilient agroecological structure. Recent work in agroecology has refined our understanding of agroecosystem resilience, but both temporal and geographical scales are often limited. Due to largely inaccessible and dwindling water resources, an examination of change at the scale of an agroecological landscape is required to better understand how rainfed agroecosystems remain resilient over an extensive period of time. Our article examines the relationship between agroecological landscape change and resilience in the face of powerful socialeconomic transformations. Our study combines the novel approach of geospatial, field and interview data in order to understand the long-term resilience of an entire agroecological landscape in the Palestinian West Bank. We argue that the study area has experienced a high level of resilience for over 70 years, perhaps for as long as 100 years, and this resilience is attributed not to a stability in production practices, but to a dynamism in practices that have enabled cultivators to adapt to broader political-economic shifts. In doing so, the paper calls for attention within agroecology and food systems research to the dynamism and resilience found within rainfed agroecosystems.

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Historical Aerial Imagery in Jordan and the Wider Middle East

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

In Search of Ancient Pre-Roman Imperial Roads: A Case Study of the Application of Remote Sensing in Road Archaeology in the Southern Levant

In Search of Ancient Pre-Roman Imperial Roads: A Case Study of the Application of Remote Sensing in Road Archaeology in the Southern Levant

Toward a High-Definition Remote Sensing Approach to the Study of Deserted Medieval Cities in the Near East

Rainfed agroecosystem resilience in the Palestinian West Bank, 1918–2017

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