Aerial Archaeology Research Group

2023 Annual Meeting

Zagreb, Croatia

21-23 September, 2023

The AARG committee is thrilled to announce the 40th AARG meeting to be held on the 21st and 22nd September in Zagreb, Croatia followed by a field trip on the 23rd September.

Due to the excellent response to our call for papers we have a beautiful, capacious venue in central Zagreb: the Croatian Journalists’ Association. The venue is in easy reach of the central square, main amenities and an excellent range of accommodation options.

You can find out more about the city and prepare for your trip at Visit Zagreb .

Programme

Below you will find the outline of the conference programme. As for the abstract book, after a few years of discussion about not printing the abstract book in order to avoid unnecessary waste, this year we will do so. We kindly ask you to download the programme and the abstract book (pdf) and those who really want to print them, to do so themselves.

Wednesday, 20 September

19.00 – 21.00

Welcome Reception and registration at the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb

Thursday, 21 September

Conference Day 1

9:00 – 9:20   REGISTRATION
9:20 – 10:00   OPENING REMARKS AND AGM

Session 1:   PAST – PRESENT – FUTURE?
  • 10:00 – 10:25
    C. Musson Invited talk: TBA
  • 10:25 – 10:50
    R. Palmer Invited talk: Before the beginning
  • 10:50 – 11:15
    C. Stoertz Invited talk: Once Upon a Time
  • 11:15 – 11:45
    COFFEE BREAK
  • 11:45 – 12:10
    S. Evans: A personal reflection on a career in aerial survey
  • 12:10 – 12:35
    I. Oltean & B. Hanson: From sky, down to earth: aerial archaeology and Romania after 25 years
  • 12:35 – 13:00
    S. Curran: The Hill of Tara: mapping an archaeological complex from above and below
  • 13:00 – 13:25
    M. Gojda & J. Unger: 2D mapping, photogrammetry-based 3D modelling, and the virtual reconstructions of Czech lowland crop-marked sites
  • 13:30 – 14:30
    LUNCH BREAK
  • 14:30 – 14:55
    R. Opitz, R. Bennett & C. Gaffney Invited talk: Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Characterising the Community in 2023
  • 14:55 – 15:20
    A. Jarvis: Neurodiversity in Aerial Archaeology: A personal look from a different perspective
  • 15:20 – 15.45
    M. Oakey: From APs to Apprentices: The Downs from Above
  • 15:45 – 16:30
    COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION
Session 2:   LOCAL SESSION
  • 16:30 – 16:55
    M. Doneus, N. Doneus & D. Cowley: Spatio-Temporal Interpretation of a Dry Stone Walled Landscape on the Island of Cres (Croatia) Using Digital Feature Models from Airborne Laser Scanning
  • 16:55 – 17:20
    N. Basuau & G. Benčić: Communication infrastructures and Roman cadastral system: new insights into the agrarian structure of the Parentium colony (Istria, Croatia)
DISCUSSION & CLOSING REMARKS

17:20 – 18:00

Friday, 22 September

Conference Day 2

Session 3:   AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE SESSION
  • 9:05 – 9:30
    A. J. Ortiz – Villarejo et al.: Drone-made orthophotogrametry, 3D reconstructions, LiDAR, and historical cartography applied to the study of foundation of the “New Populations” in the late 18th century Sierra Morena region, Andalusia
  • 9:30 – 9:55
    J.S.P. Eidshaug et al.: Shell middens, Mesolithic house pits, and supra-regional settlement patterns: Breaking new grounds with UAV LiDAR in the high latitude coastal environments ofTierra del Fuego, Argentina and Vega, Northern Norway
  • 10:00 – 10:25
    P. Dimitriev: Submerged landscapes: remote sensing data interpretation and changes in the spatial organisation of East Siberian villages
  • 10:25 – 10:50
    Z. Czajlik, L. Rupnik & P. Ódor: Aerial archaeology of Hallstatt necropolises in Hungary. New results by using different platforms
  • 10:45 – 11:15
    COFFEE BREAK
  • 11:15 – 11:40
    C. Parcero-Oubiña & D. González-Álvarez: The changing face of Iron Age “castros” thanks to new remote sensing findings
  • 11:40 – 12:05
    M. Gusssone, M. Fowler & A. Schneider: Settlement research in al-Hira, Iraq using declassified HEXAGON satellite imagery
  • 12:05 – 12:30
    L. Starková: Dark modernities in Iraqi Kurdistan: pre and post – Anfal settlement pattern of rural areas
  • 12:30 – 12:55
    M. Lazzari, A. Oyaneder & I. Oltean: Andean landscape legacies: multi-analytical remote-sensing mapping and assessment of long-term settlement and land use for sustainable futures in NW Argentina
  • 13:00 – 14:00
    LUNCH BREAK
  • 14:00 – 14:25
    G. Kiarszys: Totalitarianism, fossil fuels and slave labour. The bombscape of HydrierwerkePölitz AG
  • 14:25 – 14:50
    A. Deegan: Contrary Scunthorpe – the Industrial Garden Town
Session 4:   TECHNICAL SESSION
  • 14:50 – 15:15
    O. Risbøl, W. Verschoof-van der Vaart & K. Lambers: A bio-economic study of proto-industrial wood tar production in Mid-Norway by the use of LiDAR data and Deep Learning

  • 15:15 – 15.45
    COFFEE BREAK

  • 15:45 – 16:10
    M. Niculita: Deep Learning identification of tumuli from LiDAR DEMs at regional scale

  • 16:10 – 16:35
    Ž. Kokalj et al.: ADAF – a user-friendly tool for Automatic Detection of Archaeological Features

  • 16:35 – 17:00
    M. E. Castiello et al.: Pre-Hispanic landscape occupation in Chilean Andes. A Remote Sensing and Deep-Learning coupled approach

DISCUSSION & CLOSING REMARKS

17:00 – 18:00

POSTER SESSION
  • A. Șerbănescu: Surveying Rural Roman Settlements in areas with intense agricultural activity
  • M. Gussone & A. Schneider: Investigations in Late-Antique and Early-Islamic al-Hira, Iraq. Past, Present and Future
  • S. Seyfried: New approaches in crop-mark-ology? Adding automation and advanced statistical visualisations to the workflow of the AARG-SEN2 workgroup for the purpose of predicting the appearance of crop marks
  • N. Doneus & M. Blečić Kavur: City of Osor in the matrix of long-distance maritime routes
  • A. Stamenković & D. Grosman: The past from above, western Srem, Serbia
  • K. Hanakova: The Results of ALS Prospection in the West Part of the Ore Mountains
  • T. Kroupa: North-western Brdy Mountains (the Czech Republic): The Landscape of Charcoal and Holloways

Saturday, 23 September

9.00 – 21.00

Field trip to Krapina Neanderthal Museum

Locations

Welcome Reception: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb / Zrinjevac 19, 10000 Zagreb   Google Maps

Sessions: Croatian Journalists’ Association / Perkovčeva 2, 10000 Zagreb   Google Maps

Conference dinner: Restaurant Vinodol / Nikole Tesle 10, 10000 Zagreb   Google Maps

Field trip: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals / Šetalište Vilibalda Sluge bb, 49000 Krapina   Google Maps

Lunch: Klet Kozjak / Kozjak 18a, 49223 Sveti Križ Začretje   Google Maps

Registration

Registration for AARG 2023 is closed.

Registration will open on 22nd June and will close on 8th September 2023. Early Birds can take advantage of discounted conference fees until 18th August 2023. After this date, standard fees will apply.

The conference fee includes lunch on both conference days. We kindly ask you to give us your dietary preferences when you register.

Optionally we invite you to join us for the Conference Dinner on Friday, 22nd September (50 €) and field trip on Saturday 23rd September (40 € – including bus transfer, entrance to the museum and lunch).

Early Bird Standard
Student
80 €
100 €
Member
100 €
120 €
Non-member
130 €
150 €
Conference Dinner
50 €
50 €
Field trip
40 €
40 €
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