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The value of aerial photography in archaeological studies is strikingly illustrated by this handsome volume, the work of an observer during the late war in the Royal Flying Corps and a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service. It opens with a "History and Bibliography of Archaeology from the Air," which traces the development of aerial photography from experiments with captive balloons between 1880 and 1887 to its culmination during the great war. In the western region no archaeological discoveries were made, but in the East the Germans sent Dr. Weigand to Southern Palestine and Sinai for that purpose, and his results were published in 1920. A year earlier Colonel Beazeley had printed an account of his observations from the air of the streets and public buildings of Eski Baghdad, which, although made for military purposes, resulted in the determination of the outline of the ancient city. Disturbances of the soil in early times by ditches and the like, even when unrecognizable from the ground, are detected from the air in divers ways: by the crops and other vegetation, which show a stronger growth and a deeper color where the soil has been disturbed; by the slight shadows thrown by preh

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Author

John C. Rolfe; O. G. S. Crawford; Alexander Keiller

Published

1929

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)