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Archéologie aérienne
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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
      • The first farmers
      • A hypothetical reconstruction
      • Between 5,000 and 2,800 BCE: human settlement
      • The construction of camps and the beginning of flint mining
      • A Neolithic enclosure at l'Étoile
      • The first metalworkers
      • A hypothetical reconstruction of a nocturnal ceremony
      • The first metal appears: copper
      • Tumuli by the thousands
      • A few rare monuments still above ground
      • Habitations difficult to see from the air
      • A Bronze Age site at Étaples (Pas-de-Calais)
      • 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
      • Gallo-Roman settlements
      • From indigenous farm to villa: The example of Roye (Somme)
      • Creation of the towns and larges roads
      • The Conquest of Gaul
      • Fortified hills
      • A thirst for building
      • The Gallo-Roman villa
      • A typical Gallo-Roman villa
      • A very elaborate architecture
      • The end of the Gallo-Roman world
      • 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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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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