Stephen Savage
Arizona State University, Archaeological Research Institute (retired), Department Member
- Arizona State University, Office of Knowledge Entrerprise Development, Department MemberUniversity of California, San Diego, Anthropology, Department Member, and 2 moreadd
- Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Remote Sensing (Archaeology), Anthropology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, and 23 moreArchaeological Method & Theory, Historic Preservation, Historical Ecology, European Archaeology, Rural Landscape, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Greek Archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, Ceramics (Archaeology), Landscape, Ceramics, Remote Sensing, Jordan, Copper Mining, Ceramics (Ceramics), Charcoal analysis (Archaeology), Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Levantine Archaeology, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Copper extraction and production, Iron Age, and Archaeology of Jordanedit
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Over the past 3 years, with the establishment of the new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at UCSD’s California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2), a... more
Over the past 3 years, with the establishment of the new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at UCSD’s California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2), a collaboratory framework has been established facilitating joint research between archaeologists, computer scientists and engineers. We report here on a cyberarchaeology field recording system that feeds into a cyberinfrastructure delivered over the Mediterranean Archaeology Network (MedArchNet) on a Google Earth platform. A field test of the new system was carried out in 2009 at Khirbat en-Nahas (KEN), an Iron Age (ca. 1200 – 900 BCE) copper production center in Jordan.
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This document presents a summary of the second phase of the NASA ROSES 2009 research project, “Climate Change and Human Impact on Ancient and Modern Settlements: Identification and Condition Assessment of Archaeological Sites in the... more
This document presents a summary of the second phase of the NASA ROSES 2009 research project, “Climate Change and Human Impact on Ancient and Modern Settlements: Identification and Condition Assessment of Archaeological Sites in the Northern Levant from Landsat, ASTER and CORONA imagery.” It discusses the results of an effort to digitize and classify archaeological sites and buffers on 1970 CORONA imagery and circa 2010 Google Earth imagery, with comparison to Landsat and ASTER imagery from the 1997-2001 period, statistical analysis of land classifications, and uploading results into the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/). This report details a thorough examination of 82 archaeological tell sites in Lebanon, chosen from an initial inventory of more than 1300 sites (Lehmann 2002) because of their documented Early and Middle Bronze Age (ca. 3600 BCE to 1200 BCE) remains.
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The well-publicized destruction of archaeological sites and museum exhibits by ISIS has garnered worldwide condemnation. Sites like Nineveh, Hatra, and Mosul have been the subject of concerted efforts to destroy the past—and to help goad... more
The well-publicized destruction of archaeological sites and museum exhibits by ISIS has garnered worldwide condemnation. Sites like Nineveh, Hatra, and Mosul have been the subject of concerted efforts to destroy the past—and to help goad the United States into a third ground war in northern Iraq and Syria. Recently, we received some good news. It turns out that many of the objects that were destroyed in the Mosul Museum were reproductions; the originals are safely hidden in Baghdad. So perhaps things aren’t quite as bad as they appear?
Alas, the situation on the ground is even worse than you think. Destruction of archaeological sites has been an ongoing feature in virtually all the modern wars in the Middle East. Because of the way archaeological sites are used in military operations, there’s plenty of blame to spread around. And you’ve only been told about the famous sites—the ones that are mentioned in the Bible or that have long records of archaeological excavation and publication. But even on these sites, you haven’t heard the whole story.
Alas, the situation on the ground is even worse than you think. Destruction of archaeological sites has been an ongoing feature in virtually all the modern wars in the Middle East. Because of the way archaeological sites are used in military operations, there’s plenty of blame to spread around. And you’ve only been told about the famous sites—the ones that are mentioned in the Bible or that have long records of archaeological excavation and publication. But even on these sites, you haven’t heard the whole story.