Ancient Jordan from the Air
David Kennedy and Robert Bewley
| Many claim that aerial archaeology was created in the Middle East and there is no doubt that its potential was developed here. For a variety of reasons, following its origins and early history, the use of aerial photography was punctuated and then arrested for so many years – to be resurrected by the pioneering work of David Kennedy using existing aerial photographs. In 1997 a major breakthrough was achieved by a flight with the Royal Jordanian Air Force; since then there has been a continuous programme of aerial reconnaissance, discovering new sites, monitoring the condition of others and illustrating the famous sites from new angles. |
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| In 2004 Ancient
Jordan from the Air was published, and although the
reconnaissance and photography has continued, the next phase of the
project is to develop better access to the archive; create an online
access to the images and associated database, and begin to train
Jordanian archaeologists in air-photo interpretation and the use of
aerial survey in the management of their cultural heritage. |
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| David Kennedy, BA (Manchester), D.Phil (Oxford),
FSA, FAHA, is a
Professor of Roman Archaeology and History at the University of Western
Australia. He is the author of several books including Rome's
Desert Frontier from the Air (with Derrick Riley)(1990), The Twin
Towns of Zeugma on the Euphrates (1998), and The Roman Army in
Jordan (2nd edition, 2004). |
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| Robert Bewley, BA (Manchester), M. Phil, PhD (Cambridge), MIFA, FSA, was Head of Survey for English Heritage and is now its Regional Director for the South West. He has published extensively including Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlement in the Solway Plain, Cumbria (1994), Lincolnshire’s Archaeology from the Air (1999); Aerial Archaeology: Developing Future Practice (2002; with W. Rączkowski) and Prehistoric Settlements (2003). | |
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220 x 350 mm. 282 pages, 3 maps, 220 colour plates ISBN: 0-9539102-2-9 |
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