Recent Publications
Aqdus, S.A., Hanson, W.S. and Drummond, J. 2007a A comparative study for finding archaeological cropmarks using airborne hyperspectral, multi-spectral and digital photographic data, Proc. Remote Sensing Photogrammetry Soc. Annual conference 2007
Aqdus, S.A., Hanson, W.S. and Drummond, J. 2007b Finding archaeological cropmarks: a hyperspectral, approach, in Ehlers, M. and Michel, U. (eds) Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VII, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6749, no. 674908
Aqdus, S.A., Drummond, J. and Hanson, W.S. 2008 Discovering archaeological cropmarks: a hyperspectral, approach, in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Vol. XXXVII. Part B5, Beijing, 361-5.
Brophy, K. 2002 Thinking and doing aerial archaeology, AARGnews 24, 33-9
Brophy, K. 2005a Subjectivity, bias and perception in aerial archaeology, in K. Brophy & D.C. Cowley (eds), From the air: understanding aerial archaeology, Tempus, 33-49.
Brophy, K. 2005b The hermeneutic spiral: aerial archaeology and subjectivity, AARGnews supplement 1, 5-11.
Brophy, K. 2005c Revealing Neolithic Europe: the impact of aerial reconnaissance, in Bourgeois, J. & Meganck, M. (eds), Aerial photography and archaeology, University of Gent, 49-61.
Brophy, K. 2006 Rethinking Scotland’s Neolithic: combining circumstance and context, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland 136, 7–46.
Brophy, K. 2008 Digging cropmarks: the Forteviot cropmar,complex, Perthshire, Scotland, AARGNews 37, 42-46.
Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. 2005 From the air: understanding aerial archaeology, Stroud
Cowley, D. & Brophy, K. 2001 The impact of aerial photography across the lowlands of south-west Scotland, Trans. Dumfries Galloway Natural Hist. Antiquarian Soc. 75, 47-72.
Hanson, W.S. 2005 Sun, sand and see: creating bias in the archaeological record, in Brophy, K. and Cowley, D. (eds) From the air: understanding aerial archaeology, Tempus, Stroud, 73-85
Hanson, W.S. 2008a Site discovery: remote sensing approaches, aerial, in Pearsall, D.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of archaeology, Academic Press, New York/London, 1907-1912
Hanson W.S. 2008b The future of aerial archaeology in Europe (or Are algorithms the answer?), in Lasaponara, R. and Masini, N. (eds), Advances in Remote sensing for archaeology and cultural heritage management, Rome, 47-50
Hanson, W.S. forthcoming Aerial reconnaissance for archaeology, in Pacitti, S. (ed.) The West of Scotland, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow.
Hanson, W.S. and Oltean, I.A. 2003 The identification of Roman buildings from the air: recent discoveries in Western Transylvania, Archaeological Prospection 10, 101-17
Millican, K. 2007 Turning in circles: a new assessment of the Neolithic timber circles of Scotland, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland 137, 5–34.
Oltean, I.A. and Hanson, W.S. 2007a Cropmark formation in ‘difficult’ soils: case studies from Romania, in Mills, J. and Palmer, R. (eds) Populating clay landscapes, Tempus, Stroud, 75-88
Oltean, I.A. and Hanson, W.S. 2007b Villa settlements in Roman Transylvania, J. Roman Archaeol. 20, 113-37
Oltean, I.A. and Hanson, W.S. 2007c Reconstructing the archaeological landscape of Southern Dobrogea: integrating imagery, in Ehlers, M. and Michel, U. (eds) Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VII, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6749, no. 674906
Conference and Symposia Papers and Sessions
The Centre has maintained a profile at major international remote sensing conferences, meetings and symposia in recent years, which have led to some of the publications above. Notable recent examples include:
AARG Conference, Siena, Italy, September 2009
• Session organised by K. Brophy entitled ‘The death of cropmarks’
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘The death of cropmarks’
1st International Workshop on Advances in Remotes Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, Rome, Italy, October 2008
• Paper given by W.S. Hanson entitled ‘The future of aerial archaeology (or are algorithms the answer?)’
AARG Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2008
• Session organised by K. Brophy entitled ‘An archaeology of natural places … from the air’
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘‘Squiggles, spots and blobs’: natural cropmarks’
SPIE conference, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology, Florence, Italy, September 2007
• Paper given by W.S. Hanson entitled ‘Finding archaeological cropmarks: a hyperspectral, approach’
AARG Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007
• Session organised by K. Brophy entitled ‘Taking Aerial archaeology forward’
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘Altered images of the past. What is a cropmark?’
• Paper given by W.S. Hanson on ‘Higher Education’ in the Education Debate
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual conference, Newcastle, September 2007
• Paper given by S.A. Aqdus entitled ‘A comparative study for finding archaeological cropmarks using airborne hyperspectral, multi-spectral and digital photographic data’
AARG Conference, Munich, Germany, September 2004
• Day symposium organised by K. Brophy (in conjunction with the Neolithic Studies Group) entitled ‘Revealing Neolithic Europe: The contribution of aerial reconnaissance and remote sensing to an understanding of the Neolithic landscapes of Europe’
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘Revealing Neolithic Europe: an introduction’
Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Glasgow, December 2004
• Session organised by K. Brophy entitled ‘Cropmarx: Theoretical perspectives on aerial archaeology’
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘The hermeneutic spiral: a brief history of theoretical aerial archaeology’
Aerial Photography and Archaeology Conference, Ghent, Belgium, December 2003
• Paper given by K. Brophy entitled ‘The impact of aerial archaeology on Neolithic studies in Europe’
AARG Conference, Canterbury, September 2002
• Workshop organised by K. Brophy on theme of subjectivity, bias and perception