TY - CPAPER
KW - Aerial Photographs
KW - Aerial photography
KW - Aerial photos
KW - Agricultural landscapes
KW - Agriculture
KW - Antennas
KW - Archival aerial photograph
KW - Archival aerial photographs
KW - Case-studies
KW - Complex relationships
KW - Floors
KW - GIS
KW - Geographic information systems
KW - Intangible cultural heritages
KW - Integral part
KW - photogrammetry
KW - Photographic equipment
KW - Photointerpretation
KW - Tangible and intangible cultural heritage
KW - Threshing floor
KW - Threshing floors
AU - E. Fotiadou
AU - E. Stylianidis
AB - Threshing floors are common cultural features of the Mediterranean agricultural landscape and have been used from antiquity until some decades ago to thresh grains. Therefore, they constitute an integral part of our tangible and intangible cultural heritage as they are constructions that are linked with complex relationships between crops, technology, folklore, local materials and traditions from our ancestors. However, today, threshing floors are obsolete and destroyed almost everywhere due to modern development and very little attention has been given by archaeologists to these important cultural features. The identification and recording of ancient activity areas such as threshing floors is an important part of archaeological research contributing to the reconstruction of past ways of life and to the preservation of inherited traditions from the past. Access to historical archives of aerial photographs provide a high-quality photographic record, offering considerable potential in detecting ancient threshing floors that do not exist anymore because they have been buried in the course of time or destroyed. This study was conducted to deploy a methodology that deals with the identification of ancient threshing floors and their remains in the island of Cyprus through photo interpretation, by utilizing archival aerial imagery in combination with supplement ethnoarchaeological information.
C2 - Int. Arch. Photogramm., Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci. - ISPRS Arch.
DO - 10.5194/isprs-Archives-XLVI-M-1-2021-233-2021
N1 - Issue: M-1-2021 Journal Abbreviation: Int. Arch. Photogramm., Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci. - ISPRS Arch.
N2 - Threshing floors are common cultural features of the Mediterranean agricultural landscape and have been used from antiquity until some decades ago to thresh grains. Therefore, they constitute an integral part of our tangible and intangible cultural heritage as they are constructions that are linked with complex relationships between crops, technology, folklore, local materials and traditions from our ancestors. However, today, threshing floors are obsolete and destroyed almost everywhere due to modern development and very little attention has been given by archaeologists to these important cultural features. The identification and recording of ancient activity areas such as threshing floors is an important part of archaeological research contributing to the reconstruction of past ways of life and to the preservation of inherited traditions from the past. Access to historical archives of aerial photographs provide a high-quality photographic record, offering considerable potential in detecting ancient threshing floors that do not exist anymore because they have been buried in the course of time or destroyed. This study was conducted to deploy a methodology that deals with the identification of ancient threshing floors and their remains in the island of Cyprus through photo interpretation, by utilizing archival aerial imagery in combination with supplement ethnoarchaeological information.
PB - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
SN - 16821750 (ISSN)
SP - 233
EP - 240
TI - Documenting ancient threshing floors as part of our tangible/intangible cultural heritage from archive aerial photos: A case study in cyprus
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118597487&doi=10.5194%2fisprs-Archives-XLVI-M-1-2021-233-2021&partnerID=40&md5=e86878c572a943f1fb1cf26415477e63
VL - 46
ER -