Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 197-208Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.01.025
Keywords
Erosion monitoring; Eastern Mediterranean; Coastal archaeology; Aerial photography; Laser scanning; Cyprus
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Funding
- Honor Frost Foundation
- US National Science Foundation [BCS-0917732, 0917734]
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [430-2014-0496]
- Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0917734] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Previous research on the environment of island and coastal areas has demonstrated that erosion substantially affects coastal archaeological site preservation and can lead to the loss of important information regarding past trade and maritime activities. These same at risk coastal archaeological loci are central to much current archaeological focus on networks and connectivity. In practical and theoretical terms, this places significant stresses on local governments and archaeologists, who are trying to monitor rapidly deteriorating cultural heritage and rescue information vital to future research. Beyond ad hoc observations, rigorous methods to quantify such issues have rarely been developed in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, including the island of Cyprus. In this paper we demonstrate an integrative method, which employs historic aerial photographs and laser scanning to illustrate, quantify and monitor coastline change and its impact on cultural heritage since the industrialisation of the south-central coast of the island in the mid-20th century CE. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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