Regional power and local ecologies: Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent

From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

“…EAMENA's interdisciplinary, remote-sensing driven methodology has been developed from techniques employed by previous archaeological projects in the MENA region; the Trans-Sahara Project e.g., [11], the Fragile Crescent Project e.g., [1,2], and APAAME e.g., [13,14] amongst others [37]. Our image interpretation methodology, which primarily relies on Google Earth and Bing maps, feeds directly into user-friendly and standardised data entry, ultimately facilitating on-going and future recording of archaeology across the whole MENA region.…”

“…Building the concept of 'certainty' into our data recording methodology provides an important tool for both researchers and heritage specialists alike, and in particular those who may work with, and seek to refine this information some way into the future. For example, for researchers certainty can also be a tool through which to test hypothetical data extrapolations [1] (pp. 1008-1009), while for heritage specialists certainties can be used as a way to prioritise management and intervention strategies.…”

“…Geospatial interpretations are not without uncertainties, and can be error-checked [1,[46][47][48][49][50]. Our project has therefore integrated the concept of 'certainty', into its data-recording models.…”

“…[1,2]. As Hritz [3] (p. 229) recently pointed out, these developments have also enabled us to develop strategies to ensure better documentation and management of landscapes that are under threat or rapidly disappearing.…”

Introduction — Human-environment interfaces: Assessing the use of palaeoenvironmental information in Mediterranean landscape archaeology

“…The degree to which such data allow us to go beyond general correlations between palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data is very much dependent on the spatial scale and temporal resolution that both types of data can achieve (see below; cf. Lawrence et al 2015;Contreras 2017). Extremely useful additional information, often neglected, can be drawn from written sources -either 'historical' or ´mythical´.…”