Czech Landscape Experience Transfer into Desert Environment to Support Archaeological Research
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Geography in Czechia and Slovakia. Theory and Practice at the Onset of 21st Century |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | present desert landscape - reconstructed landscape - Western Desert - Egypt - archaeological research |
| Description | The landscape mapping represents a traditional activity of Czech geographers for long time. Czech landscape cartography experience supported by remotely sensed data and GIS technique was used in the research of Al-Baharíya oasis (Egypt, Western Desert) to compile the map of present landscape with natural and human-made objects, but also for completing the reconstruction natural landscape map showing the study area in the approximate time of early settlement. Such product presents selected sites, today covered with sandy dunes, where the possibility of ancient dwelling sites is higher in analogy with sites of present archaeological excavation. |