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Unlocking historic landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: two pilot studies using Historic Landscape Characterisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sam Turner  and
Jim Crow
Sam Turner
Affiliation:
1School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England, UK (Email: sam.turner@ncl.ac.uk)
Jim Crow
Affiliation:
2School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Building, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JY, UK (Email: jim.crow@ed.ac.uk)
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Abstract

Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) maps landscape with particular reference to its historic character and development. Executed using sources including satellite imagery and aerial photography and presented in a Geographic Information System (GIS), this offers a powerful insight into a landscape story. Here two leading advocates of the approach apply HLC for the first time to historic landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Aegeanmedieval and modernHistoric Landscape CharacterisationHLCGISfield systems
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 323 , March 2010 , pp. 216 - 229
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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