Investigating the sedimentary fillings of Megalos Peristeres Cave, Rethymno, Crete, through GPR techniques

The study constitutes the first internal subsurface mapping of a cave environment in Crete. Mapping of the sedimentary deposits of Megalos Peristeres cave indicated the sequence of the fillings within the different chambers of the cave. Suggestions for the existence of anthropogenic residues have been made through the combined study of radargrams and depth slices

The contribution of geophysical and spectral imaging techniques in the archaeological investigations of Minoan Koumasa

A manifold geophysical strategy has been carried out for mapping the Minoan cemetery and settlement of Koumasa, S. Crete. Multispectral imaging was used as a complementary method to investigate associations with the geophysical results. The GNVI proved the most effective in this task. Archaeological excavations have verified a number of features suggested by the remote sensing methods

Reconstructing the neolithic landscape of Thessaly through a GIS and geological approach

Neolithic Thessaly has been traditionally studied to understand human partitioning and territoriality of the landscape by non-hierarchical human groups. Thessaly is a region of low relief with extensive coastline and a great alluvial plain, where hundreds of Neolithic settlements/tells called magoules were established from the Early Neolithic period until the Bronze Age. Archaeological data was collected forming a corpus of surveyed and excavated sites and settlements, differentiated by type, size or time-scale of occupation. Reconstruction of the Neolithic landscape was based on synthesis of geological maps, records of stratigraphic data collected from a total of 400 boreholes and the indexing of past studies relative to the geomorphological changes that have affected Neolithic Thessaly from Holocene until today. These were spatially and statistically processed to estimate the amount of alluvial deposits and their distribution on the Thessalian plain from the Early Neolithic period to the present

A web-GIS approach to cultural resources management in Crete: the digital archaeological atlas of Crete

The Digital Archaeological Atlas of Crete, part of a larger campaign (Digital Crete: Mediterranean Itineraries), was implemented under the framework of the Greek Operational Program “Information Society”, part of the “eEurope” initiative of the European Union which is funded by the 3rd European Community Support Framework. A program module was constructed in order to create a database warehouse for cultural heritage sites on the island of Crete in the South Aegean Sea. A combination of internet-accessible databases, web-GIS techniques and multimedia, provides for the integrated and wide dissemination of cultural information, while contributing to a better understanding of the cultural environment and the influence of the natural environment on the history of the settlement of Crete