• Minna SILVER (Hg.)

Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of Syria

Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016

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Minna Silver
is Adjunct Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland


Syria has struggled and been divided by a civil war for over a decade. Cultural heritage is part of human identity and needs to be protected and preserved for the sake of the Syrians and the international community alike. Memories of places and artefacts, social connection and peace can be built on heritage that is common and can be shared. This volume is based on the CIPA workshop organised during the 10th ICAANE held in Vienna in April 2016. The contributions collected therein discuss present challenges in the region and provide an overview of strategies and applications to use various techniques and methods to record and document heritage of Syria, also offering possible prospects for the future.

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Seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt ringt Syrien mit einem verheerenden Bürgerkrieg. Die Bewahrung des kulturellen Erbes als Teil der menschlichen Identität und dessen Schutz im Interesse der Syrer:innen und der internationalen Gemeinschaft trägt dazu bei, die Erinnerungen an Orte und Artefakte, soziale Verbindungen und Frieden basierend auf einem gemeinsamen Erbe aufzubauen. Der vorliegende von Minna Silver herausgegebene Band basiert auf dem CIPA-Workshop, der während der 10. ICAANE im April 2016 in Wien stattfand. Die darin versammelten Beiträge diskutieren die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen in der Region und geben einen Überblick über Strategien und Anwendungen zur Nutzung verschiedener Techniken und Methoden zur Erfassung und Dokumentation des syrischen Erbes und bieten somit auch mögliche Perspektiven für die Zukunft.

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SYGIS – The Anatomy of the Jebel Bishri Project in Syria: Remote Sensing, Archaeological Surveying, Mapping and GIS Studies with Education in Syria

    Minna Silver

Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of Syria, pp. 57-82, 2022/03/24

Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016

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Abstract

The Finnish archaeological survey and mapping project SYGIS worked under the present author in themountainous region of Jebel Bishri in Syria in 2000–2010 executing remote-sensing methods, fieldwork and GISin mapping as well as producing 3D landscape models The aim was to document and study a vulnerable spatialboundary zone between the Syrian Desert and irrigated agricultural fields of the Euphrates Valley. Using the collecteddata, the purpose was to study nomadic and sedentary cultures, their interaction and how they were affected bythose environments The project was an early initiative regarding use of GIS in Syria, also providing a GIS courseto the members of the Syrian antiquities authority In addition, a research training course and seminar were arrangedby SYGIS for Nordic PhD students in Syria In the 1980s and 1990s new methods, largely based on ethnoarchaeologicalobservations, were developed to study the archaeological remains of the nomads, from which the project wasable to benefit by applying these approaches afresh. Satellite imagery was used in studying environmental changesand prospecting ancient sites that were checked and documented in situ Materials such as Landsat and QuickBirdimages were used, fusing them with radar data from the X-SAR mission and ASTER-DEM in order to create landscapemodels The project highlights the importance of documenting and preserving mobile cultures, such as thoseof hunter-gatherers and pastoral nomads. Bedouins are part of the Syrian culture and they are the followers of pastpastoral nomads in the region

Keywords: remote sensing; archaeology; surveying; mapping; GIS