Direkli Cave: Aerial Photography of An Epipaleolithic Site

Summary

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), or "drones" as they are commonly referred to, are increasingly common in archaeology. Drones are an emerging technology that can provide low cost tools for aerial photography, regional surveys, site identification, excavation documentation, mapping and 3D photogrammetry. UAVs offer a huge potential for archaeological projects, being able to collect large amounts of high-resolution surface data.

They are often cheaper than other aerial photography systems, operate under a wide variety of conditions, and can be quickly deployed in difficult environments.

During the Direkli Cave Archaeology Project, it will be tested how a budget drone will be able to collect valuable data for creating high-resulotion pictures and maps.

Newly initiated research at Direkli cave is helping to define an initial understanding of Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer traditions in the central Taurus region of southern Turkey. Detailed analysis of the Direkli chipped stone tools and faunal assemblage suggests that the cave functioned as a short-term logistical camp in the late Epipaleolithic. Especially geometric microlit such as lunates and triangulars was used by occupations of the cave.The cave used to primarily in the late summer and fall.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage