microrobert
07-27-2012, 08:13 PM
Flying Lasers Reveal Buried Historical Structures
http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-380470-panoV9free-nmtf.jpg (http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-29283.html)
High-Tech Aerial Photos: A Glimpse into the Past (http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-29283.html)
Archaeology is being revolutionized by remote-scanning techniques that use lasers to detect otherwise invisible ground features. The technology digitally extracts vegetation for a clean image of the earth's surface. Archaeologists in Germany have already discovered thousands of new sites.
The Glauberg is a hot spot for archaeologists. For decades, researchers have been studying the hill in the central German state of Hesse, where people settled some 7,000 years ago.
Over the millennia, the plateau was inhabited by Celts and Alemanni and, in the Middle Ages, people there built castles that reached for the sky. Accordingly, researchers have found plenty of artifacts. In 1996, they made the sensational discovery of an almost perfectly preserved statue of a Celtic warrior, which is now known as the Celtic Prince of Glauberg.
Remote-Scanning Techniques Revolutionize Archaeology - SPIEGEL ONLINE (http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/remote-scanning-techniques-revolutionize-archaeology-a-846793.html)
http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-380470-panoV9free-nmtf.jpg (http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-29283.html)
High-Tech Aerial Photos: A Glimpse into the Past (http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-29283.html)
Archaeology is being revolutionized by remote-scanning techniques that use lasers to detect otherwise invisible ground features. The technology digitally extracts vegetation for a clean image of the earth's surface. Archaeologists in Germany have already discovered thousands of new sites.
The Glauberg is a hot spot for archaeologists. For decades, researchers have been studying the hill in the central German state of Hesse, where people settled some 7,000 years ago.
Over the millennia, the plateau was inhabited by Celts and Alemanni and, in the Middle Ages, people there built castles that reached for the sky. Accordingly, researchers have found plenty of artifacts. In 1996, they made the sensational discovery of an almost perfectly preserved statue of a Celtic warrior, which is now known as the Celtic Prince of Glauberg.
Remote-Scanning Techniques Revolutionize Archaeology - SPIEGEL ONLINE (http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/remote-scanning-techniques-revolutionize-archaeology-a-846793.html)