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- Prospecting
- The choice of aircraft
- Taking pictures
- Film photography and digital photography
- Choosing a format
- - A day in the air
  - Preparing for the mission
  - In flight
- Checking on the ground
- Clues on the ground
- - A landscape rich in history
  - Plant transformations of the past
  - Traces and memorie
- - Very low-relief shadows
  - The shadow of the past
- - Crop growth anomalies
  - Contrasting colors
- - Ground moisture anomalies
  - The phenomenon of capillary action
  - Dark areas
- - Soil color anomalies
  - Coming to the surface
- - Polymorphism
  - Photo gallery
- - Pitfalls and confusions
  - Dating our discoveries
  - Beware of similar forms
  - Some examples of confusions
  - Telling old and new apart
  - Identifying ancient remains
  - Avoiding the pitfalls
- Discoveries
- - Gallic and Gallo-Roman sanctuaries
  - Hypothetical reconstruction of a sanctuary
  - Historic of the research
  - Survival of funerary circles
  - Funerary enclosures
  - Small Gallo-Roman temples
  - The sanctuaries
  - Photo gallery
  - The necropoli at Tartigny (Oise)
  - The sanctuary at Ribemont-sur-Ancre (Somme)
- - Gallic settlements
  - The Gallic farm at Verberie (Oise)
  - Hypothetical reconstruction of an native farm
  - Oppida
    
    Fortified hills
    
    Photo gallery
    
    The "murus gallicus"
  - The aedeficia
    
    The actual isolated, large-scale farms
    
    The major networks of enclosures
    
    Different types of nested enclosures
    
    Photo gallery
    
    The case of Conchil-le-Temple
  - Large, simple and festive enclosures
  - Types of vici
- - The Middle Ages and the birth of the rural world
  - Hypothetical reconstruction of a feudal mound
  - Towards a new rural landscape
  - Cities and towns
  - The Middle Ages
  - Fortresses and mottes castrales
  - Photo gallery
- What is aerial archaeology ?
- Introduction
- - History
  - "The flying fools"
  - The emergence of a discipline
  - A difficult start
  - Research in Europe
- Aerial archaeology and maps
- Heritage protection
- - Portrait of Roger Agache
  - A childhood in the Picardy countryside
  - Birth of a passion
  - First aerial flyovers
  - International recognition
  - Director of Prehistoric Antiquities
  - Hommages
- Ressources
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgment

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Archéologie aérienne

Roger Agache, pionnier de l'archéologie aérienne en France, livre les clés de lecture et d'interprétation du paysage. Les découvertes que l'on doit à la prospection aérienne en Picardie sont présentées à l'aide de photographies d'une incomparable force évocatrice.

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In northern France

Aerial archaeology

From the sky

Prospecting
Clues on the ground
Discoveries

What is aerial archaeology ?

History
Aerial archaeology and maps
Portrait of Roger Agache

Prospecting

The choice of aircraft
Taking pictures
Camera equipment
Choosing a format
A day in the air
Checking on the ground

Clues on the ground

The landscape
Very low-relief shadows
Crop growth anomalies
Ground moisture anomalies
Soil color anomalies
Polymorphism
Pitfalls and confusions

Discoveries

The first farmers
The first metalworkers
Gallic and Roman-era necropoli and sanctuaries
Gallic settlements
Gallo-Roman settlements
The Middle Ages and the birth of the rural world

What is aerial archaeology ?

Introduction
History
Archaeological inventory and map
Heritage protection
Portrait of Roger Agache

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