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Wednesday, 9 September 2015


9:10 - 9:30     Registration

9:30 - 9:55      AGM - AARG Reports and Elections

9:55 - 10:10    Opening - Remarks from Host Institution Representatives - GAIN and Incipit

10:10 - 10:35   Benjamin Stular & Anthony Corns - Remote Sensing & Spatial Data in ARIADNE

10:35 - 10:45   Rog Palmer - Report from the first Flying Circuls

10:45 - 11:00   Axel G. Posluschny - Travels, Friends and Impact - Looking back on 5 years of ArchaeoLandscapes Europe and looking forward to ArchaeoLandscapes International

11:00 - 11:35    Coffee break

 Session 1: Aerial Approaches in Spain

11:35 - 12:00   Marcos García García - Interpreting social change from above: causewayed enclosures of Northern Spanish Plateau

12:00 - 12:25   Jesús García Sánchez - Aerial survey in the Northern Plateau (Spain), the Ager Segisamonensis study case

12:25 - 12:50    Brais Currás - Aerial photography as a resource for the historial interpretation of the landscape: the case of the Baixo Miño (Spain-Portugal)

12:50 - 13:15    Victorino Mayoral - The experience of the Merida institute of archaeology for the development of a research line on aerial archaeology

13:15 - 14:30     Lunch

Session 2: New Arts & Practices / Lost Arts & Practices

14:30 - 14:55   Michael Doneus - Automated archiving of oblique and vertical aerial photographs

14:55 - 15:20   Łukasz Banaszek - Are lidar data a new type of archaeological source?

15:20 - 15:45   Andrew Ford and Heather Papworth - Assessing dual wavelength, fully polarimetric airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for archaeological prospection in temperate regions

15:45 - 16:10    Lucie Culikova and Martin Gojda - Making hidden components of past landscapes interpretable: from air photos to structured records

16:10 - 16:40    Coffee break

Session 3: Stories from an aerial view

16:40 - 17:05    Kasper Hanus and Wojciech Ostrowski - Flights into the Enlightenment. Documentation of the Natal Landscape of Buddha using UAV

17:05 - 17:30    Mikołaj Kostyrko, Kornelia Kajda, Dawid Kobiałka, Dimitrij Mlekuž - Tracking the past of animals: reflections on archaeology of non-human agents in the perspective of aerial archaeology

17:30 - 17:55    Willem Vletter - Using a gaming engine to visualize change of an historical road and path network over time

17:55 - 18:20    Lidia Żuk - Microhistories in microtopography

Thursday, 10 September 2015

9:30 - 9:45  Registration

Session 4: Hidden Landscapes

9:45 - 10:10  Charlie Yuill and Peter Butler - Addressing the Challenges of Landscape Archeology in the Central Appalachians With A Multi-Sensor Data Collection Strategy

10:10 - 10:35  Csilla Gatti -  Pécs-Jakabhegy: An Iron Age hillfort in the wood - a landscape study from Hungary

10:35 - 11:00  Anthony Corns, Gary Devlin, Ger Dowling, Robert Shaw - Discovering the hidden monastic landscapes of Ireland 

11:00 - 11:25  Ralf Hesse - Approaching the multitemporality of archaeological landscapes with airborne lidar

11:25 - 12:00  Coffee break

Session 5: Inherently Political? Aerial Archaeology and Endangered Archaeology

12:00 - 12:25  Chris Cox (presented by Rebeca Bennett) - Mapping in crisis - Nepal 2015

12:25 - 12:50  Robert Bewley - Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA)

12:50 - 13:15  General Discussion 

13:15 - 14:30  Lunch

14:30 - 15:00  Posters

Session 6: Idiosyncrasies

15:00 - 15:25  Chris Musson -  'How it all Began: Unreliable Memories'

15:25 - 15:50  Steve Davis - Sure, I wouldn't have started from there...

15:50 - 16:15  Coffee break  

16:15 - 16:40  Dave Cowley -  Reflexivity and context - or why I do not like 'aerial archaeology'

16:40 - 17:05  Rog Palmer -  Add ingredients and stir well

17:05 - 17:30  Wlodek Rączkowski  - Not for fun, but… fun anyway: searching for new dimensions of aerial archaeology

17:30 - 17:45  Closing of the Conference