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Wings over Armenia: use of a paramotor for archaeological aerial survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Antje Faustmann  and
Rog Palmer
Antje Faustmann
Affiliation:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Belfortstr. 22, 79085 Freiburg, Germany (Email: a.faustmann@ufg.uni-freiburg.de)
Rog Palmer
Affiliation:
Air Photo Services, 21 Gunhild Way, Cambridge CB1 8QZ, UK (Email: rog.palmer@ntlworld.com)
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Abstract

Aerial survey in a country with restricted overflying can be frustrating. Armenian and British archaeologists solved the problem by acquiring a two-person paramotor and photographing with a digital camera at 300m. Here are some of the first aerial pictures of the rich tapestry of Armenia’s archaeology.

Keywords

Armeniaaerial surveyparamotor
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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 304 , June 2005 , pp. 402 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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