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Remote Sensing in Archaeology INTERDISCIPLINARYCONTRIBUTIONSTOARCHAEOLOGY SeriesEditor:MichaelJochim,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,California Founding Editor: Roy S. Dickens, Jr., Late of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NorthCarolina THEARCHAEOLOGIST’SLABORATORY TheAnalysisofArchaeologicalData E.B.Banning AURIGNACIANLITHICECONOMY EcologicalPerspectivesfromSouthwesternFrance BrookeS.Blades EARLIESTITALY AnOverviewoftheItalianPaleolithicandMesolithic MargheritaMussi EMPIREANDDOMESTICECONOMY TerenceN.D’AltroyandChristineA.Hastorf EUROPEANPREHISTORY:ASURVEY EditedbySaurunasMiliasuskas THEEVOLUTIONOFCOMPLEXHUNTER-GATHERERS ArchaeologicalEvidencefromtheNorthPacific BenFitzhugh FAUNALEXTINCTIONINANISLANDSOCIETY PygmyHippotamusHuntersofCyprus AlanH.Simmons AHUNTER-GATHERERLANDSCAPE SouthwestGermanyintheLatePaleolithicandNeolithic MichaelA.Jochim MISSISSIPPIANCOMMUNITYORGANIZATION ThePowersPhaseinSoutheasternMissouri MichaelJ.O’Brien NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SACRIFICE AND RITUAL BODY TREATMENTS INANCIENTMAYASOCIETY EditedbyVeraTieslerandAndreaCucina REMOTESENSINGINARCHAEOLOGY EditedbyJamesWisemanandFaroukEl-Baz THETAKINGANDDISPLAYINGOFHUMANBODYPARTSASTROPHIESBYAMERINDIANS EditedbyRichardJ.ChaconandDavidH.Dye AContinuationOrderPlanisavailableforthisseries.Acontinuationorderwillbringdeliveryof eachnewvolumeimmediatelyuponpublication.Volumesarebilledonlyuponactualshipment. Forfurtherinformationpleasecontactthepublisher. Remote Sensing in Archaeology Edited by JAMES WISEMAN CenterforArchaeologicalStudies,BostonUniversity Boston,MA,USA and FAROUK EL-BAZ CenterforRemoteSensing,BostonUniversity Boston,MA,USA JamesR.Wiseman FaroukEl-Baz CenterforArchaeologicalStudies CenterforRemoteSensing BostonUniversity BostonUniversity 725CommonwealthAvenue 675CommonwealthAvenue Boston,MA,02215 Boston,MA02215 [email protected] [email protected] CoverIllustration: SIR-C1994imageofAngkorWat,Cambodia,andamosaicdetailofAngkorWatand Kapilapuramound.SeeFigure1,p.186,andFigure14,p.211,forimagesand detailedexplanations. LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2001012345 HBISBN100-387-44453-X e-ISBN100-387-44455-6 SBISBN100-387-44615-X HBISBN13978-0-387-44453-6 e-ISBN13978-0-387-44455-0 Printedonacid-freepaper. ©2007SpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarlyanalysis.Useinconnectionwithanyformofinformationstorageandretrieval,electronic adaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafter developedisforbidden. Theuseinthispublicationoftradenames,trademarks,servicemarks,andsimilarterms,evenif theyarenotidentifiedassuch,isnottobetakenasanexpressionofopinionastowhetheror nottheyaresubjecttoproprietaryrights. 987654321 springer.com Contributors Turki S.M. Al-Saud. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh,SaudiArabia. Email:[email protected] JenniferR.Bales.3345GrandAve.,Billings,MT59102 Robert D. Ballard. Institute for Archaeological Oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, South Ferry Road, Narragansett,RI02882. Email:[email protected] Deborah Blom. Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont, Williams Hall508,72UniversityPlace,Burlington,VT05405-0168. Email:[email protected] RonaldG.Blom.NASAJetPropulsionLaboratory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] Stefano Campana. Landscape Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and History of Arts, University of Siena at Grosseto Convento delle Clarisse, Via Vinzaglio28,58100Grosseto,Italy. Email:[email protected] Nicholas Clapp. Thomas Road Productions, 1551 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles,CA90035. Email:[email protected] Douglas C. Comer. Cultural Site Research and Management, Inc., 4303 N. CharlesSt.,Baltimore,MD21218. Email:[email protected] Lawrence B. Conyers. Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 2000E.AsburyStreet,Denver,CO80208. Email:[email protected] Nicole Couture. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Stephen Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada. Email:[email protected] v vi CONTRIBUTORS RobertCrippen.NASAJetPropulsionLaboratory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] Farouk El-Baz. Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue,Boston,MA02215. Email:[email protected] Charles Elachi. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] Francisco Estrada-Belli. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Box6050,Nashville,TN37235. Email:[email protected] DianeL.Evans.NASAJetPropulsionLaboratory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] Tom G. Farr. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] William R. Fowler, Jr. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Box6050-B,Nashville,TN37205. Email:[email protected] Riccardo Francovich. Medieval Archaeology, Department of Archaeology andHistoryofArts,UniversityofSiena,ViaRoma56,53100Siena,Italy. Email:[email protected] Tony Freeman. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] Thomas G. Garrison. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,Cambridge,MA02138. Email:[email protected] Dean Goodman. Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory, 20014 Gypsy Lane, WoodlandHills,CA91364. Email:[email protected],www.GPR-SURVEY.com George R. Hedges. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, 865 South FigueroaStreet,10thFloor,LosAngeles,CA90017. Email:[email protected] Scott Hensley. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,CA91109. Email:[email protected] CONTRIBUTORS vii Derrold W. Holcomb. Advanced Sensor Software, Leica Geosystems, GIS & MappingDivision,2801BufordHighway,Suite300,Atlanta,GA30329. Email:[email protected] BurgessF.Howell.UniversitiesSpaceResearchAssociation,NASAGlobalHydrology andClimateCenter,MarshallSpaceFlightCenter,HuntsvilleAL35805. Email:[email protected] Carrie Hritz. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, UniversityofChicago,OrientalInstitute,Chicago,IL60637. DanielE.Irwin.NASAGlobalHydrologyandClimateCenter,MarshallSpaceFlight Center,Huntsville,AL35805. Email:[email protected] Magaly Koch. Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue,Boston,MA02215. Email:[email protected] Kenneth L. Kvamme. Department of Anthropology and Archeo-Imaging Laboratory, OldMain330,UniversityofArkansas,Fayetteville,AR72701. Email:[email protected] KatherineL.R.McKee.IndependentResearcher,Oxnard,CA93036. Email:[email protected] David A. Mindell. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E51-194A, Cambridge,MA02138. E-mail:[email protected] Elizabeth Moore. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russel Square London WC1H OXG United Kingdom. Email:[email protected] Yasushi Nishimura. Cultural Heritage Protection Cooperation Office, Asia/Pacific CulturalCentreforUNESCO(ACCU),Nara-shi,636-8113Japan. Email:[email protected] AgamemnonG.Pantel.Pantel,delCueto&AssociatesTorrimar,#11CalleValencia Guaynabo,PuertoRico00966-3011. Email:[email protected] SalvatorePiro.ITABC-CNR,InstituteforTechnologiesAppliedtoCulturalHeritage, P.O.Box10,00016MonterotondoSc.(Roma)Italy. Email:[email protected] Matthew D. Reynolds. Department of Anthropology & Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies,OldMain330,UniversityofArkansas,Fayetteville,AR72701. Email:[email protected] viii CONTRIBUTORS Benjamin F. Richason III. Department of Geography, St Cloud State University, StCloud,MN56301. Email:[email protected] Cordula A. Robinson. Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 725 common- wealthAvenue;Boston,MA02215. Email:[email protected] A. C. Roosevelt. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007WestHarrisonStreet,Chicago,IL60607. Email:[email protected] William Saturno. Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, HuddlestonHall,73MainStreet,Durham,NH03824-3532. Email:[email protected] Kent Schneider. USDA Forest Service Heritage Program, 1720 Peachtree Rd NW, Atlanta,GA30309. Email:[email protected] ThomasL.Sever.NASAGlobalHydrologyandClimateCenter,MarshallSpaceFlight Center,Huntsville,AL35805. Email:[email protected] Irina Lita Shingiray. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA02215. Email:[email protected] Payson Sheets. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO80309-0233. Email:[email protected] JohnH.Stubbs.WorldMonumentsFund,949ParkAvenue,NewYork,NY10028. Email:[email protected] Patrick Ryan Williams. Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthro- pology,1400LakeShoreDrive,Chicago,IL60605. Email:[email protected] JamesWiseman.CenterforArchaeologicalStudies,BostonUniversity,675Common- wealthAvenue,Boston,MA02215. Email:[email protected] Juris Zarins. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southwest Missouri State University,Springfield,MO65804. Email:[email protected] Ezra B. W. Zubrow. State University of New York, Department of Anthropology, P.O.Box610005,Buffalo,NY14260. Email:[email protected] Foreword Over the last few decades, a revolution took place in our ability to observe and“explore”ourhomeplanetusingspaceborneandairborneremotesensing instruments. This revolution resulted from the new capability of observing on a large, regional and global, scale surface patterns and features, and from using multispectral instruments to observe surface signatures not visible to the human eye, and to penetrate below the surface cover using microwave radiation. Over the last decade, this new technology is being brought to bear in the field of archaeology. As nicely and comprehensively described in this book, remote sensing techniques are bringing new powerful tools to help archaeologists in their quest of discovery and exploration. Even though this field is still in its infancy, the different articles in this book give us a glimpse ofthethingstocomeandthegreatpotentialofremotesensinginarchaeology. Theeditorshavebroughtanexcellentsamplingofauthorsthatillustrate how remote sensing techniques are being used in the real world of arche- ological exploration. A number of chapters illustrate how spaceborne and airborne remote sensing instruments are being used to decipher surface morphological features in arid (Egypt, Arabia), semi-arid (Greece, Ethiopia, Italy), as well as tropical regions (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Cambodia) to help in archeological and paleontological exploration. They illustrate the use of surface-cover penetration with radars, high-resolution multispectral imaging onaregionalbasis,aswellastopographicsignaturesacquiredwithspaceborne and airborne sensors. A number of articles also illustrate the innovative use of ground penetrating radar systems which capitalize on recent developments in signal processing and pattern recognition, as well as the use of visualization and classification techniques to help extract certain patterns associated with man-made structures from natural signatures. In addition, the emerging field of maritime archaeology is addressed where more precision navigation tools combined with visual and acoustic sensors are enabling new capabilities in mapping sea-bottom surfaces. This book provides an excellent and diverse overview of the emerging capabilityofremotesensingarchaeologyandisaveryvaluableandimportant text for archaeologists in their quest to use advanced technology to help in theirstudiesofexploration,andforremotesensingtechnologistsandscientists ix
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