Importance of U-2 Aerial Imagery of Iron Age Cities in the Middle East

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

With this research, I hope to digitally reproduce the high-resolution U-2 photographs by specially processing my photographs of the imagery using photogrammetic methods, such as Agisoft Metashape to produce 3D surface models. With these models, I will deduce what implications the structures and features visible in the imagery and models have in association with political regimes (Redford and Ergin, 2013) and economies of the Early Iron Ages in the ancient Near East, concluding whether the development of these cities was planned or unplanned (Novak, 2004) based on the new data gathered from U-2 imagery.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36435.0