Two keys for the historical interpretation of aerial photographs

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 7: 37-46

Notes

The techniques and practices associated with the exploitation of aerial photography in the study of air archaeology and historical geography were pioneered during World War I by German and British scholars. Many individuals contributed to the succeeding development and perfection of methods, based upon experience in the field, during the next fifty years. 0. G. S. Crawford, a leading British pioneer in this area, codified the techniques of prehistorical interpretation when he devised a simple but most effective grouping of site attributes in two cornerstone publications. The familiar categories of shadow-sites and shine marks, soil-sites, and crop-sites serve as foundational departure points for the archaeologist, anthropologist, and historical geographer working over either vertical or oblique photographs. The full range of what can be achieved from photography in terms of ingenuous techniques working upon obscure data is splendidly illustrated by John Bradford in his Ancient Lanclscctpes. This much of technique and interpreted data is, therefore, secure, essential, and difficult to improve upon.

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Two keys for the historical interpretation of aerial photographs