Yes / Introduction:
The 12th International Conference of Archaeological
Prospection saw a return to the University of
Bradford, the host for the 1st ICAP conference in
1995. Much has changed in the world of archaeological
prospection since that inaugural event, but
many things have also remained constant. Perusing
the abstract list from the 1st conference reveals
that there no less than 6 presenters who returned
to present, and many more of the initial group returned
to attend, at this, the 12th conference.
For the 12th International Conference of Archaeological
Prospection a number of key themes were
targeted, divided in to six conference sessions:
• Techniques and new technological developments
• Applications and reconstructing landscapes
and urban environments
• Integration of techniques and inter-disciplinarity,
with focus on visualisation and interpretation
• Marine, inter-tidal and wetland prospection
techniques and applications
• Low altitude prospection techniques and applications
• Commercial archaeological prospection in
the contemporary world
Many of the presentations in the Techniques and
technological developments session highlighted
the use of automated process in the filtering and
recognition of data, and also the use of vehicles for
the rapid capture of high resolution data.
The Applications and reconstruction of landscapes
and urban environments session highlighted contemporary
research in a wide range of locations
and temporal settings from around the world, from
Stonehenge to Mexico, and from Northern Plains
earthlodges to 19th century landscape gardens.
The variety of presentations amply demonstrates
the applicability of prospection techniques to a wide
range of situations and purposes, and highlights
the expansion seen in archaeological prospection
since the 1st ICAP conference in 1995.
Within the integration of techniques and visualisation
session a number of presentations detailed
the use of simultaneous data capture, and how
such techniques have been integrated with specific
research programmes to enhance the understanding
of archaeological sites.
The special sessions on Marine, inter-tidal and wetland
prospection and Low altitude prospection for cussed on new and emerging technologies broadening
the horizon for archaeological prospection.
The use of underwater vehicles and aerial vehicles
for data capture in the form of marine seismic
data and LiDAR is detailed through a number of
case studies. These demonstrate the novel use of
emerging technologies for archaeological prospection,
and the success of these applications will certainly
lead to the growth of this field within coming
years.
A special session on commercial archaeological
prospection combined a number of presentations
from commercial practitioners in the field with a
workshop session covering a range of key issues
and standards relating to practices within both commercial
and research archaeological prospection.
The success of the 12th International Conference of
Archaeological Prospection is due to both the presenting
contributors and attending delegates. We
also recognise the effort made by both the Organising
Committe and Scientific committee, and thank
the members for their dedication in organising the
event, and for the prompt review and comments on
all of the scientific papers.
On behlaf of both the ICAP 2017 Organising Committee
and the Scientific Committee we extend sincerest
thanks to all of the presenters and attendees
at the conference, and very much look forward to
the 13th conference in 2019.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13511 |
| Date | 09 November 2017 |
| Creators | Jennings, Benjamin R., Gaffney, Christopher F., Sparrow, Thomas, Gaffney, S. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Other, Published version |
| Rights | © 2017 Archaeopress. Open Access. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence., CC-BY-NC-ND |
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