AEB_124 Geospatial archaeology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Dr. phil. Peter Milo (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Dobešová
Timetable
Tue 18:20–19:55 C42
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
In the course, there will be introduce all modern prospection methods which are use in geospatial archaeology. Students will acquaint themselves with possibilities of archaeological prospection in special terms of archaeological investigation. The course will be running in the form of theory (lectures) and practice (exercises). At the end of course students should be able to know which possibilities of geospatial archaeology are in archaeological practice and to realize geodetic and geophysical measurements.
Syllabus
  • 1.a. Principles and possibilities of terrain prospection and evidence of archaeological finds and relicts
  • 1.b. Methods
  • 1.c. Data processing
  • 1.d. Evaluation and interpretation of data
  • 2.a. Geodetic systems
  • 2.b. Principles of geodetic measurement
  • 2.c. Practical exercising with total station and GPS
  • 2.d. Data processing
  • 2.e. Data visualisation
  • 3.a. Geophysical methods
  • 3.b. Geophysical investigation in archaeology
  • 3.c. Concrete examples of archaeogeophysical prospection
  • 3.d. Practical exercising of geophysical methods on some archaeological sites
  • 3.e. Processing and data interpretation
  • 4.a. Principles and possibilities GIS
  • 4.b. GIS application
  • 4.c. Sources in GIS
  • 4.d. Operations in GIS
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016.
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