Not what came to mind when I read the words Archaeology Lab, but very cool.

Does put a whole new spin on "where's the bone, girl?"

My dog would just gnaw it some before reburying it.

Novel idea.

Most ancient Roman ruins found here, where found through aerial observation. Pictures taken from planes are used to determine urban structures burried underground.

Alot of Villas, camps and towns were found this way.

They've had excellent success with that technique in the jungles of Central America and the deserts of Arabia, TGAC. Recently they have gone to satellite imagery. It's been successfully used in Egypt to identify buried structures.

Aerial photography is practically useless in jungle areas because the trees cover everything up, but I remember reading about successes using satellite imagery in central America several years ago. The oldest references I found with a quick Google were about 10 years ago. I thought it was longer ago than that but CRS could be a contributing factor there.

(August 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Aerial photography is practically useless in jungle areas because the trees cover everything up, but I remember reading about successes using satellite imagery in central America several years ago. The oldest references I found with a quick Google were about 10 years ago. I thought it was longer ago than that but CRS could be a contributing factor there.

Radar, ground-penetrating radar.

(August 24, 2013 at 12:25 pm)Chas Wrote:

(August 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Aerial photography is practically useless in jungle areas because the trees cover everything up, but I remember reading about successes using satellite imagery in central America several years ago. The oldest references I found with a quick Google were about 10 years ago. I thought it was longer ago than that but CRS could be a contributing factor there.

Radar, ground-penetrating radar.

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar

InSAR is primarily useful for detecting small movements of ground surface over time. I am not sure how it would be useful for jungle archeology unless buried archeological structure is causing ongoing subsidence.

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(August 24, 2013 at 12:23 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Aerial photography is practically useless in jungle areas because the trees cover everything up, but I remember reading about successes using satellite imagery in central America several years ago. The oldest references I found with a quick Google were about 10 years ago. I thought it was longer ago than that but CRS could be a contributing factor there.

I recall some recent Central American archeological discovery were made using infrared aerial photography, the discovery was based on the fact foliage of different jungle plants look different in infrared, and jungle that regrew over large archeological sites would contain different mix of plants than primitive jungle even after several hundred years.