Archaeological Excavation

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Past Times, Changing Fortunes: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2010' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Μαντζουράνη, Ε. & Βαβουρανάκης, Γ. 2009. Τα ανασκαφικά δεδομένα της στρωματογραφίας και της αρχιτεκτονικής ανά Τομή. Ε. Μαντζουράνη, Η ανασκαφή του Νεολιθικού οικισμού Καντού – Κουφόβουνου στην Κύπρο, Μέρος Α΄, Στωματογραφία και αρχιτεκτονική, 37-208. Λευκωσία: Τμήμα Αρχ/των Κύπρου.

by Giorgos Vavouranakis

Via Appia. I lotto: da piazza Numa Pompilio a via Cecilia Metella

by Marina Marcelli

published in Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale, CI (2000), pp. 334-341

Recenti indagini sul tratto urbano della via Appia

by Marina Marcelli

published in D. Manacorda, R. Santangeli Valenzani, Il primo miglio della via Appia a Roma, Atti della Giornata di Studi (Roma 16 giugno 2009), Roma 2011, pp. 153-166

Presenze archeologiche nell'isolato di Palazzo Volpi

by Marina Marcelli

published in C. Strinati (a cura di), "Palazzo Volpi alle Quattro Fontane",  Roma 1991,  pp. 31-36

Tor Bella Monaca. Indagini archeologiche

by Marina Marcelli

in  Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale, CIII (2002), pp. 241-245.

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Creative Minds: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2009' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

#3 -- LA CAMPAGNE DE RECHERCHE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DANS LA RÉGION DE TOMBOUCTOU ET LA RÉGION DES LACS: RAPPORT SUR LA TROISIÉME CAMPAGNE DE RESEARCH À TOMBOUCTOU PRÉHISTORIQUE

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2010). Written with co-directers Peter Coutros (Yale) and Mohamed M. Abdallahi and Dr. Ali Ould Sidi (Timbuktu Cultural Mission)

Written in French.

Presented to the Malian Direction Nationale du Patrimone Culture (DNPC)
and
Institut des Sciences Humaines (ISH)

Quatre projets principaux ont été effectuées cette saison de recherche: 1) d'une fouille archéologique sur le site de... more Quatre projets principaux ont été effectuées cette saison de recherche: 1) d'une fouille archéologique sur le site de Tumbouze 2 (9 km au sud de Tombouctou), 2) études archéologiques de la région Tumbouze et la rive est du lac Fati, 3) le premier campagne du forage du lac au Mali qui a recueilli des informations sur le climat ancien, et 4) la construction d'un petit musée à la mission culturelle de Tombouctou. Les quatre projets sont un succès et nous tenons à remercier tous nos collaborateurs pour leur soutien dans nos efforts. Chaque projet est décrit ci-dessous. Les premiers archéologues qui ont travaillé à Tombouctou ont été les McIntoshs en 1985.

Nous devons attendre les résultats de nos analyses scientifiques avant de pouvoir être certain de notre interprétations. Aussi, la thèse doctorat de Douglas Post Park sera d'utiliser les données rassemblées cette saison. Peter R. Coutros utilisera les informations provenant de l'enquête du lac Fati pour son mémoire de maîtrise. Mohamed Mahmoud Abdallahi également va utiliser les informations recueillies auprès des collections de manuscrits au centre Ahmed Baba. Il va écrire un article sur les mentions historiques des changements environnementaux.

Sediments as palaeo-land segments: the excavation side of study (1976)

by F G Fedele

In: DA Davidson & ML Shackley (eds), Geoarchaeology. Earth Science and the Past. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co.

Published in the US by Westview Press, Boulder (CO).

[The volume that launched 'geoarchaeology' as a disciplinary label.]

Excavations at Caherconnell Cashel, the Burren, Co. Clare: implications for cashel chronology and Gaelic settlement

by Michelle Comber

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by Barbara Maurina

FROM DEPOSIT TO POINT CLOUD – A STUDY OF LOW-COST COMPUTER VISION APPROACHES FOR THE STRAIGHTFORWARD DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

by Michael Doneus

Stratigraphic archaeological excavations demand high-resolution documentation techniques for 3D recording. Today, this... more Stratigraphic archaeological excavations demand high-resolution documentation techniques for 3D recording. Today, this is typically accomplished using total stations or terrestrial laser scanners. This paper demonstrates the potential of another technique that is low-cost and easy to execute. It takes advantage of software using Structure from Motion (SfM) algorithms, which are known for their ability to reconstruct camera pose and three-dimensional scene geometry (rendered as a sparse point cloud) from a series of overlapping photographs captured by a camera moving around the scene. When complemented by stereo matching algorithms, detailed 3D surface models can be built from such relatively oriented photo collections in a fully automated way. The absolute orientation of the model can be derived by the manual measurement of control points. The approach is extremely flexible and appropriate to deal with a wide variety of imagery, because this computer vision approach can also work with imagery resulting from a randomly moving camera (i.e. uncontrolled conditions) and calibrated optics are not a prerequisite.
For a few years, these algorithms are embedded in several free and low-cost software packages. This paper will outline how such a program can be applied to map archaeological excavations in a very fast and uncomplicated way, using imagery shot with a standard compact digital camera (even if the images were not taken for this purpose). Archived data from previous excavations of VIAS-University of Vienna has been chosen and the derived digital surface models and orthophotos have been examined for their usefulness for archaeological applications. The absolute georeferencing of the resulting surface models was performed with the manual identification of fourteen control points. In order to express the positional accuracy of the generated 3D surface models, the NSSDA guidelines were applied. Simultaneously acquired terrestrial laser scanning data – which had been processed in our standard workflow – was used to independently check the results. The vertical accuracy of the surface models generated by SfM was found to be within 0.04 m at the 95 % confidence interval, whereas several visual assessments proved a very high horizontal positional accuracy as well.

Area del Termovalorizzatore di Salerno: le indagini di archeologia preventiva e i risultati dello scavo archeologico

by Alfonso Santoriello

co-authored with L. Cerchiai, A. Rossi, in M.L. Nava, Archeologia preventiva. Esperienze a confronto, Atti dell'Incontro di studio (Salerno, 3 luglio 2009), Venosa 2009, pp. 49-107.

Excavations in Okolište and the reconstruction of Late Neolithic settlement processes in the Visoko Basin in Central Bosnia (5200–4500 B.C.)

by Johannes Müller

R. Hofmann/Z. Kujundć-Vijzagić/J. Müller/N. Müller-Scheesel/K. Rassmann, Excavations in Okolište and the reconstruction of Late Neolithic settlement processes in the Visoko Basin in Central Bosnia (5200-4500 B.C.). www.aegeobalkanprehistory.net 2008.

Okoliste - Grabung und Geomagnetik eines zentralbosnischen Tells aus der ersten Hälfte des 5. vorchristlichen Jahrtausends.

by Johannes Müller

Z. Kujundžić/J. Müller/K. Rassmann/T. Schüler (2004), Okoliste - Grabung und Geomagnetik eines zentralbosnischen Tells aus der ersten Hälfte des fünften vorchristlichen Jahrtausends. www.jungsteinSite.de, 2004.

A road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana. Excavations at Astura.

by Gijs Tol

G. Tol & P. Attema (forthcoming). A road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana. Excavations at Astura. In: LRCW 4, Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry.

In the summers of 2007 and 2008 a team of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) mapped and sampled a section... more In the summers of 2007 and 2008 a team of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) mapped and sampled a section containing archaeological materials near the mouth of the Astura river (Nettuno, Lazio, Central Italy). The principal aim of this study was to obtain insight in the pottery wares and shapes that circulated in the study area between the Late Roman and the Early Medieval period,  phases for which sites almost completely lack in the dataset built up in the course of GIA’s long-running Pontine Region Project. This article provides an overview of the amphora, coarse and cooking wares types attested at this site. These indicate that the site participated in long-distance trade networks, probably using the harbour at Torre Astura as a landing-stage.

Scavi presso la porta occidentale di Potentia: notizia preliminare

by Dimitri Van Limbergen

Vermeulen, F., M. Destro, P. Monsieur, F. Carboni, S. Dralans and D. Van Limbergen 2011. 'Scavi presso la porta occidentale di Potentia: notizia preliminare'. Picus 31, 168-205.

In this paper we present the main results of an excavation carried out between 2007 and 2010 by a team from Ghent... more In this paper we present the main results of an excavation carried out between 2007 and 2010 by a team from Ghent University (Belgium) on the west gate of the Roman town of Potentia. The digs perfectly confirm what is known from recent
prospections of the general topography and the plan of the late Republican and Imperial, rectangular gridded town. They also provide good chronological and stratigraphical evidence about the two main building phases of the gate, the development of the main East-West street and the character of the defences, with their ditch, wall and agger. The finds are an important contribution to our knowledge of the Republican phases of the coastal colony of Potentia.

La recerca al abast: l experiència del parc arqueològic del patronat Flor de Maig

by Nuria Castañeda

GONZÁLEZ MARCÉN, P., CASTAÑEDA, N., ARMENTANO, N., BARAHONA, M., GONZÁLEZ, J. (1998): II Seminari Arqueologia i Ensenyament, Treballs d’Arqueologia, 5, Bellaterra.

Las excavaciones de Gabriel Llabrés, Rafael Isasi y Juan Llabrés en la ciudad romana de Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca) (1923-1946)

by Bartomeu Vallori Márquez

Vallori, Bartomeu; Orfila, Margarita and Cau, Miguel Ángel (2011) Las excavaciones de Gabriel Llabrés, Rafael Isasi y Juan Llabrés en la ciudad romana de Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca) (1923-1946). Archivo Español de Arqueología 84: 283-303

Archaeological research in the Roman city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca) began in 1923 with the excavations of G.... more Archaeological research in the Roman city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca) began in 1923 with the excavations of G. Llabrés and R. Isasi. From 1923 to 1946, their fieldwork affected large areas of the city and important remains were uncovered. In this article, the results of the revision of old documents from these excavations are presented. In short, this work has allowed the reconstruction of the fieldwork campaigns, particularly those carried out between 1942 and 1946, and also their location in the general plan of the site. All together this represents a remarkable advance in the knowledge of the topography in this provincial Roman city.

Tanumprojektet. Arkeologiska undersökningar vid hällristningar i Tossene socken, 2005-2008–Rapport. Including English Summarizing article by Ling & Bengtsson

by Johan Ling