Untangling Palimpsest Landscapes in Conflict Zones: A “Remote Survey” in Spin Boldak, Southeast Afghanistan
Untangling Palimpsest Landscapes in Conflict Zones: A “Remote Survey” in Spin Boldak, Southeast Afghanistan
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解开冲突地区的重写本景观：阿富汗东南部斯宾博尔达克的“远程调查”
DOI：
10.1080/00934690.2017.1414522
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
E. Hammer
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作者：
Kathryn Franklin;E. Hammer
利用高分辨率卫星图像进行的远程调查使考古学家能够研究因持续的冲突而无法进入的地区以及位于考古知识较好的地区之间的地区的古代景观。这类研究往往缺乏按时间顺序排列的资料。本文介绍了在阿富汗坎大哈省的Spin Boldak（“白色沙漠”）境内进行的远程景观调查的结果，以及为解决因冲突而无法进入的景观的年表而进行的方法学努力。所研究的区域横切几个环境区（沙漠，冲积平原，河流和丘陵），并位于一个重要的走廊运动到山区的阿富汗-巴基斯坦边境。调查网站的形态比较，更好地记录的例子和合成的数据，从各种来源，使我们能够得出时间和埋藏的结论，三种类型的记录网站：加固外壳，商队，和移动的牧区营地。这些方法提供了时间深度，我们的远程映射景观的理解，使我们能够考虑Spin Boldak作为一个地方和区域的历史过程，而不仅仅是作为一个永恒的通道之间的更密集的居住区形成的地方。
ABSTRACT Remote survey using high-resolution satellite images allows archaeologists to study ancient landscapes in regions made inaccessible by ongoing conflict as well as in regions located between zones of better archaeological knowledge. Such studies frequently suffer from a lack of chronological information. This paper presents the results of remote landscape survey in the territory of Spin Boldak (“white desert”) in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, and methodological efforts to detangle the chronology of a landscape made inaccessible by conflict. The studied region crosscuts several environmental zones (desert, alluvial plain, river, and hills) and lies within an important corridor of movement toward mountain passes on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. Morphological comparisons of surveyed sites to better-documented examples and synthesis of data from a variety of sources allow us to draw chronological and taphonomic conclusions about three types of documented sites: fortified enclosures, caravanserai, and mobile pastoral camps. These methods provide time depth to our understanding of the remotely-mapped landscape and allow us to consider Spin Boldak as a place shaped by local and regional historical processes rather than merely as a timeless thoroughfare between more intensively inhabited locales.