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Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - YellowPete - 2nd March 2009
As the use of linar was a recent topic, what does liodar actually survey?
intervisibility studies, combined with terain modelling, to establish turbulance channels for wind power sitings?
Ditch digging, is ditch digging
on site soil analysis, geochemical and inclusions for agricultural use.
Optimal conditions to maximise geochemical properties, using wider crop rotation schemes, to enable green manuring options, for different crops.
historic adapation models for climate changes.
yada yada yada......
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Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - Oxbeast - 2nd March 2009
None of the above, YellowPete. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - YellowPete - 2nd March 2009
for a long time we have been discussing the environmental distribution of pollen of different types and species and their drop off in being present within samples taken being indeterminate to gravitational drop, local dispersal and wider regional spreads.
How about the use of Lidar for monitoring the dispersal of differnt types of pollen within various grades of vegational coverage.
it does seem abit like using a ten ton bomb to swat a fly, but the subsequent work would be able to work towards disguising camoflage of monumental eye sores, into the broader character of areas of outstanding natural beauty.
the work archaeologically would then loop further back into environmental pollen distribution stuff.
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Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - YellowPete - 2nd March 2009
canopy models for inter lacing with topographic viewsheds to analise the visual impact of different shapes and forms on planning proposals for various forms of development.
although for former point a wind tunnel would be considerably cheaper.
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Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - Sparky - 2nd March 2009
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Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - matthew.law - 2nd March 2009
so, anyway...
I think most have us will have been in a situation where we have to deal with a client/ contractor who doesn't like what we're telling them - whether it's the fact that that hitrherto unsuspected burial ground on their site *might* slow things down a day or two, or that we'd really rather the machine driver didn't use a bucket that tears everything to shreds and leaves streaks of assorted rubble where the archaeology should be - and that kind of experience of diplomacy is a great thing to be able to tell an prosepctive employer you have.
I have a colleague who interviewed for a military mapping project. It sounded a little sinister...
I take slight exception to the claim that ditch digging is just ditch digging. Especially when recuts are involved.
Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - Gog - 2nd March 2009
Sorry to be a killjoy, but presumably all these tasks already have suitably trained and experienced practitioners ready to do them, and don't need to import archaeologists whose skills may only partially overlap at best, and are often not even documented, being 'picked up along the way'.
We hear a lot about the cross-application of skills, but has anyone got any hard data to show that anyone outside of archaeology actually values us as a potential reservoir of skills and labour, or is it just a romantic bit of self-medication we like to dose ourselves with to numb the inherent futility of...Christ, what a miserable sod.
Real question, though!
Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - gumbo - 2nd March 2009
Did yellow pete actually mean analyse? analise sounds like something completely different...
Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - Gog - 2nd March 2009
Perhaps I should have said miserable bugger.
Probably just as well I didn't.
Are Archaeological Skills Going Somewhere? - YellowPete - 2nd March 2009
tou che
i never was much of a speller.
our real time diplomacy skills are probably one of best and yet undersold skills.
we spend our lives in such close proximity, under massive amounts of physical and mental strain, where the creaks and cracks move tectonicly on a regular basis.
alot of the skills, or rather the questions have probably been answered, but the skills refer to the upkeeping of generic landscape management plans.
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