Tutorials
ArcGIS 10.7.1 Introductory Course
Skills course organised by Archon / 4D research Lab.
QGIS 3.4 Introductory Course
Skills course organised by Archon / 4D research Lab.
Software
ArcGIS – High end, universities often have an educational license.
QGIS – Free and open source.
Books
- Dell’Unto, N. and G. Landeschi, Archaeological 3D GIS (2022).
- Bárta, M. and Brůna, V. (eds), The Pyramid Fields of Ancient Egypt. A Satellite Atlas (2021).
- Sullivan, E., Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (2020).
- Parcak, S., Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past (2020).
- Parcak, S., Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology (2009).
Papers
- Siegel, O. et al., The BORDERSCAPE Project WebGIS: State Formation and Settlement Patterns near the Ancient Egyptian Southern Border, Journal of Open Archaeology Data 12:7 (2024), 1-10.
- Moroney, M.E., The Egyptian road most taken: mapping the least cost path routes from the Nile to the Red Sea coast, in: Ancient Egypt, New Technology (2023), 298-321.
- Pethen, H., The Hatnub Quarries industrial landscape survey 2017: mobile-GIS ground-truthing of the satellite remote-survey, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 107 (2021), 129-157.
- Pethen, H., Accessing the inaccessible: detailed “off-site” archaeological survey using satellite imagery and GIS at the Hatnub travertine quarries, Egypt, in: Digital archaeologies, material worlds (2020), 115-132.
- Nuzzolo, M., Patterns of tomb placement in the Memphite necropolis. Fifth Dynasty Saqqara in context, in: M. Barta, F. Coppens, J. Krejci (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015 (2018), 257-292.
Blogs
- Hannah Pethen, Errors, inaccuracies, resolution and RMSE: Georeferencing a difficult map of Abu Rawash’s pyramid and cemeteries, 28 April 2021.
- Hannah Pethen, Free high-resolution satellite imagery and how to find it, 30 June, 2021.
- Hannah Pethen, Shifting mastabas: Georeferencing a plan of a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian mastaba cemetery, at Abu Rawash, 24 February 2021.