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Landscapes through the Lens: Aerial Photographs and the Historic Environment

edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring, and Matthew J. Abicht

This volume presents the rich, but under-utilised and in parts inaccessible, archival historic aerial imagery, traditional photographs and those captured from satellites, for the exploration and management of cultural heritage. An unparalleled resource, much of it from the 1940s, for archaeologists and all with an interest in landscapes, images spanning the second half of the 20th century provide an unrivalled means of documenting and understanding change and informing the study of the past.

Case studies, written by leading experts in their fields, illustrate the applications of this imagery across a wide range of heritage issues, from prehistoric cultivation and settlement patterns, to the impact of recent landscape change. Contemporary environmental and land use issues are also dealt with, in a volume that will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, geographers and those in related disciplines.

David C Cowley, an archaeologist who has published extensively on aspects of aerial survey and photography, manages the RCAHMS aerial survey programme and is a former Chairman of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group. 302p, b/w & col illus. (Oxbow Books 2010)

ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-981-9
ISBN-10: 1-84217-981-0

Paperback. Price US $90.00

Review Quote

"There are some outstanding papers here... This volume re-states the case for the use of old aerial photographs in any planned or ongoing research project examining the historic landscape, and may provide some impetus to those in charge of the key archives to press on with making the collections more searchable and accessible, with whatever investment of time or money this may require."

Toby Driver
Landscape History, vol 32, No. 1 (2011)


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