As powerful economic and cultural centers, fortified sites played an important role in early medieval society. In Central Europe, site research has been essential topic for several generations. However, gradual changes the landscape are a threat to these heritage monuments. The main task of this paper was compare previous results from archaeological excavations with new data acquired by geophys...

This paper is a response, both to Fuller et al.’s recent criticism of Chinese research on rice domestication, as lacking evidence, and to their argument for the beginning of rice domestication around 4000 BC in the lower Yangzi River. We first survey previous publications that discuss the process from wild rice collection to rice domestication in China, and then examine early rice remains from ...

Integrated remote sensing and geophysical methods can provide detailed information about buried cultural heritage. We implemented an integrated survey protocol (IREGA, Integrated REmote-sensing and Geophysical prospecting for Archaeology) and tested the performance of the method in the area of the ancient Roman town of Aquileia, NE Italy, to define and characterize microareas of archaeological ...

This paper presents new methods for the semi-automatic detection of some kinds of cultural heritage in forested areas in Norway, and reports on a work in progress. Some areas have a large number of old pitfall traps that were used for deer hunting 2000-500 years ago. Other areas have a large number of iron production sites that were in use 1400-700 years ago. These two kinds of cultural heritag...