El. knyga: Digital Geoarchaeology: New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research

Modern archaeology can be considered as an interdisciplinary approach that increasingly combines different methods and datasets to answer questions about ancient cultures and their remains. Having its major focus on new technologies and multi-method research approaches, the book promotes interdisciplinary studies between different disciplines such as archaeology, computer sciences, geography, geoinformatics, geodesy, history, etc. Common fields of work as well as future challenges are identified and discussed from different scientific perspectives. Each chapter starts with a general introduction to the topic followed by case studies.By stimulating knowledge transfer and collaboration, Digital Geoarchaeology contributes to an effective protection of cultural heritage and a better understanding of ancient landscapes along with their forming processes. This book includes topics and applications such as geographic and archaeological information systems, remote sensing, e.g. satellite

imagery, aerial photographs, terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, digital image processing and pattern recognition, digital elevation models, 3D and 4D visualization and landscape reconstruction, geophysical prospecting, e.g. ERT, SRT, GPR as well as spatiotemporal analysis.

GIS-based model of the ancient city of Trier on the basis of archaeological documents.- Unwrapping transformations for Cultural Heritage.- Paleolake-delineation within the Lake Manyara basin, Northern Tanzania.- Retrieving manmade features from high resolution 3D models with multi-scale integral invariants.- Mulit-Methoden-Approach zu Portugal.- A geoarchaeological approach for the localization of the prehistoric harbour at Akrotiri, Thera.- MayaArch3D.- Graves, pottery, and pathways of Funnel Beaker societies in relation to their natural environment.- Demonstrating Boundary Line Type Mapping for the Comparative Formal Description of the Socio-Spatial Properties of Urban Built Environments.- 3-dimensional reconstruction of Early Bronze Age pits - 3D and pseudo-3D geoelectrics.- The past as seen from space: Detecting archaeological objects in high-resolution satellite images of the Silvretta Alps.- Geoinformation extraction from 3D pointclouds - current status and future perspectiv

es.- Terrestrial laser scanning surveys supporting geoarchaeologic research of the CRC806: Our way to Europe.- Ancient caravan routes from satellite imagery and field observations, Egypt - detection and protection.