Google Earth for Archaeologists
Occasionally, and all too infrequently, I get asked questions about Google Earth and archaeology. In many ways it is a good thing that I get the question irregularly, because I do very little field work nowadays and I don’t understand everything well enough to explain it effectively. I typically go on about GIS and how you would need that technology for any real analysis, but then explain how you can do most of what you might actually want to do (getting started) with Google Earth. It’s not too long after this point that people’s eyes glaze over and I realize that I’m talking to myself - what is also probably a good thing because I no longer know what I’m talking about.
Fortunately, RR has written up a very nice explanation over at Whitewashed Tomb. Now when people ask me, I can just say “Have you been reading my blog?” and leave it at that. They won’t need to go through the physical exertion of eye-glazing, and I won’t need to go through an explanation of something I understand only tangentially because I never really do it anymore…win!
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Ha! That’s value-added education. Even after you are gone, the learning continues…
The AIA just partnered with Google Earth to create an archaeological layer on Google Earth so that people can ‘visit’ sites around the world
http://www.archaeological.org/news/aianews/6871
Thanks L - That’s a very nice resource! It deserves it’s own post (forthcoming)...
your “go to answer” for all questions… haha Have you been reading my blog? (Though I’d like to admit I believe I have read it more after I graduated than while a student. haha)