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Antiquities. --- Archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Archaeological Survey of India. --- Archæological Survey of India. --- India --- India. --- Antiquities

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Antiquities. --- Archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Archaeological Survey of India. --- Archæological Survey of India. --- Bengal (India) --- India --- India --- India. --- Antiquities --- Antiquities

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Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India. This book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside. It meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge. This is the first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.

Archaeology --- Sacred space --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Political aspects --- Archæological Survey of India --- History. --- India --- Antiquities. --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Archæological Survey (India) --- ASI (Archæological Survey of India) --- Bhāratīya Purātatva Sarvekshaṇa --- Dīwān al-Āthār al-Qadīmah bi-al-Hind --- India.

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"The objectives of the Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan project were: to discover, record, and interpret archaeological sites in an area of approximately 590 km 2 between Shammakh in the north and Ayl in the south in the southern segment of the Transjordan Plateau; to determine the area's settlement patterns from the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 1.4 mya) to the end of the Late Islamic period (AD 1918); to investigate the Pleistocene (as late as ca. 10,000 B.C.) sediments and lakes in the eastern segment of the survey territory; to document the many farms, hamlets, and villages that provisioned the major international sites of the area, for example, Ash-Shawbak, Petra, and Udhruh; to investigate further the Khatt Shabib or Shabib's Wall, a low stone wall running in a generally north-south direction through the area; to record the inscriptions, rock drawings, and wasms (tribal brands) within the area; and to link up with previous work that the project director and others have carried out in southern Jordan. These objectives were accomplished by the transecting of 108 random squares and the documenting of 366 sites that range in date from the Lower Paleaolithic to the end of the Late Islamic period. Analysis of the materials, primarily lithics and sherds, collected in the random squares and at the sites indicate that the area experienced its highest density of population during the Middle Paleolithic, Neolithic/Chalcolithic, Iron II, Nabataean and Roman, Byzantine, and Late Islamic periods. Relative to the settlement patterns of the area, it can be concluded that the area was a rural one where the chief activities were agriculture and pastoralism. The many farms, hamlets, villages, and camp sites documented show that the area most probably provisioned, during various archaeological periods, the major international sites of the area. The project has particular relevance for understanding the major site of Petra during the Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine periods. In addition, it is important relative to the site of Udhruh during these three periods plus the Early and Late Islamic periods and the site of ash-Shawbak, located immediately to the north of the project's territory, during the Middle Islamic period. Finally, the project contributed to the writing of the archaeological history of southern Jordan from Wadi al-Hasa in the north to Ras an-Naqab in the south and from the desert on the east to the international border between Jordan and Israel on the west"--Amazon.com.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological surveying --- Land settlement patterns --- Social archaeology --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Prospection archéologique --- Colonisation intérieure --- Archéologie sociale --- History --- Types --- Histoire --- Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan --- Jordan --- Jordanie --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités

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Remotely sensed data from either air- or spaceborne platforms are often leveraged for archaeological or more general cultural heritage goals. However, despite the steady developments in remote sensing technology over the past three decades, the thoughtful integration of data sources and methods into theoretically aware archaeological practice remains relatively underdeveloped. This volume contains nine contributions which, each in their way, address different theoretical dislocations and practical shortcomings in the use of remote sensing products within archaeological practice. These contributions provide the reader with food for thought on these challenges, and so contribute to archaeological remote sensing as a more mature interdisciplinary field characterised by explicit, thoughtful, and theoretically engaged approaches to understanding the past.

Biography & True Stories --- Archaeology --- relief mapping --- visualization --- blend modes --- digital elevation model --- airborne laser scanning --- lidar --- archaeological prospection --- deep learning --- citizen science --- The Netherlands --- archaeology --- arid environments --- satellite remote sensing --- lithological mapping --- lithic procurement --- chert sourcing --- Landsat 8 --- GIS --- ALS --- amplitude --- radiometric calibration --- reflectance --- Sicily --- transfer learning --- historic mining --- heritage management --- LiDAR --- hyperspectral data --- submerged areas --- cultural heritage monitoring --- anomaly detection --- MNF --- radiative transfer model --- Martin Heidegger --- technology --- mimesis --- remote sensing archaeology --- cultural context --- archaeological remote sensing --- satellite mission design --- satellite archaeology --- archaeological survey --- cropmarks --- empirical knowledge --- alluvial sediments --- geomorphological/pedological background --- soil spatial infrastructure --- statistical methods --- n/a