DOCUMENTING ANCIENT THRESHING FLOORS AS PART OF OUR TANGIBLE/INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE FROM ARCHIVE AERIAL PHOTOS: A CASE STUDY IN CYPRUS

Abstract. Threshing floors are common cultural features of the Mediterranean agricultural landscape and have been used from antiquity until some decades ago to thresh grains. Therefore, they constitute an integral part our tangible intangible heritage as constructions that linked with complex relationships between crops, technology, folklore, local materials traditions ancestors. However, today, threshing obsolete destroyed almost everywhere due modern development very little attention has given by archaeologists these important features. The identification recording ancient activity areas such is archaeological research contributing reconstruction past ways life preservation inherited past. Access historical archives aerial photographs provide a high-quality photographic record, offering considerable potential in detecting do not exist anymore because buried course time or destroyed. This study was conducted deploy methodology deals their remains island Cyprus through photo interpretation, utilizing archival imagery combination supplement ethnoarchaeological information.