Integrating Satellite Imagery and Ground-Based Remote Sensing to Reconstruct a Neolithic Village

Summary

As part of a long-term project aimed at modeling the emergence of large, nucleated, Neolithic villages in the Carpathian Basin, the Körös Regional Archaeological Project (KRAP) collaborated with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (IMS-FORTH), to integrate multi-spectral satellite imagery and ground-based remote sensing techniques to reconstruct the spatial organization of the Szeghalom-Kovácshalom settlement, which covered more than 100 ha. The layering of datasets from 1) satellite images, 2) ground-based geophysical surveys including magnetometry, ground penetrating radar, electromagnetic and electrical resistance tomography, as well as 3) AMS dates from targeted excavations permitted the team to develop a 3-D virtual reconstruction of the layout and evolution of the prehistoric village. Geophysical results also allowed a GIS spatial analysis of the structural elements of the site in relationship to local geomorphological features. The synthesis of both excavation and remote sensing results contributed to the virtual reconstruction of the village (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_eRN20PPuM).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• High-Tech Storytelling in Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 14583