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Aerial archaeology in Jordan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Kennedy and
Robert Bewley
David Kennedy
Affiliation:
M205, School of Humanities, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Perth, Australia (Email: dkennedy@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)
Robert Bewley
Affiliation:
The Manse, Fore Street, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, SN6 6NP, UK (Email: bob.bewley@btinternet.com)
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Abstract

The authors have provided some of Antiquity's most stunning frontispieces since we introduced them in 2006. We asked them to show how aerial archaeology has developed in Jordan over some 90 years, tell us about the techniques and approaches used and its potential here and in other desert and mountainous lands.

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Jordanaerial archaeology

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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009, pp. 69 - 81
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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