FROM THE AIR

UNDERSTANDING AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY

KENNETH BROPHY AND DAVID COWLEY

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Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations and acronyms used in the text 1 Kenneth Brophy & David C. Cowley From the air an introduction 2 Gordon S. Maxwell The pregnant jewel: on the track of the past 3 Kenneth Brophy Subjectivity, bias and perception in aerial archaeology 4 David C. Cowley & Simon M.D. Gilmour Some observations on the nature of aerial survey 5 David R.Wilson Bias in aerial reconnaissance 6 W.S. Hanson Sun, sand and see: creating bias in the archaeological record 7 Rebecca H.Jones The advantages of bias in Roman studies 8 Rog Palmer 'If they used their own photographs they wouldn't take them like that' 9 Jessica Mills Bias and the world of the vertical aerial photograph 10 Tim Gates Recording upland landscapes: a personal account from Northumberland 11 Matthew Oakey Patterns of aerial photography in the Central Midlands of England: evaluating biases in past programmes of aerial reconnaissance and their potential impact 12 Wlodek Ra.czkowski Tradition in power: vicious circle(s) of aerial survey in Poland 13 Andrew Baines Using photography in archaeology Index 168 187 117 50 6 9 10

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