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Petric̆ević, Milos̆ B.: A contribution to examining the topography of antique Risinium
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Milos B. Petrićević
A CONTRIBUTION TO EXAMINING THE TOPOGRAPHY
OF ANTIQUE RISINIUM1
Abstract: In archaeological studies conducted to datę in Montenegro, no attention has been paid
to the interpretation of historical or archaeological landscape. Causes, consequences and implica-
tions of changes in the environment were not considered important by researchers from this area
sińce it was believed that this kind of information was irrelevant to the creation of an overall picture
of an archaeological site and its surroundings. This work is a contribution to the limited corpus of
archaeological studies conducted in Montenegro that are based on modem noninvasive methods
of studying archaeological landscape.
Key words: aerial interpretation, remote sensing, spatial analyses
Introduction
Remote sensing is a method of collecting environmental data by means of a system which
is not in direct physical contact with the environment, object or phenomenon that we are
examining.2 It is based on interpretation of various images of the Earth’s surface taken
from the air or the orbit. The notion of remote sensing in archaeology refers to the process
of detection, measuring and monitoring of archaeological space.
Aerial photography as a means of remote sensing has long been present in archaeology
and it is not necessary to recall here the well known principles of the process of aerial
photograph interpretation.3
Montenegro is an exception in this part of Europę (the Balkans) when it comes to re-
mote sensing in generał. To datę, not a single territory has been photographed for archa-
eological purposes. Reasons for this should be sought in the approach of Montenegrin
professionals as well as in the scarcity of materiał resources.
Montenegrin archaeology has come to a troubled standstill at the crossroads of a tra-
ditional understanding of science on one hand and the possibility of applying other theo-
retical and methodological techniąues on the other. However, the latter remains only
1 This work is part of broader research conducted by
the author for the purposes of his master’s thesis in
the course of his graduate studies at the Institute of
Archaeology of the University of Warsaw under the
supervision of Prof. Piotr Dyczek (UW) and Prof.
Włodzimierz Rączkowski (UAM).
2 Elachi, van Zyl 2006, p. 1.
3 For example, see Wilson 2000.
A CONTRIBUTION TO EXAMINING THE TOPOGRAPHY
OF ANTIQUE RISINIUM1
Abstract: In archaeological studies conducted to datę in Montenegro, no attention has been paid
to the interpretation of historical or archaeological landscape. Causes, consequences and implica-
tions of changes in the environment were not considered important by researchers from this area
sińce it was believed that this kind of information was irrelevant to the creation of an overall picture
of an archaeological site and its surroundings. This work is a contribution to the limited corpus of
archaeological studies conducted in Montenegro that are based on modem noninvasive methods
of studying archaeological landscape.
Key words: aerial interpretation, remote sensing, spatial analyses
Introduction
Remote sensing is a method of collecting environmental data by means of a system which
is not in direct physical contact with the environment, object or phenomenon that we are
examining.2 It is based on interpretation of various images of the Earth’s surface taken
from the air or the orbit. The notion of remote sensing in archaeology refers to the process
of detection, measuring and monitoring of archaeological space.
Aerial photography as a means of remote sensing has long been present in archaeology
and it is not necessary to recall here the well known principles of the process of aerial
photograph interpretation.3
Montenegro is an exception in this part of Europę (the Balkans) when it comes to re-
mote sensing in generał. To datę, not a single territory has been photographed for archa-
eological purposes. Reasons for this should be sought in the approach of Montenegrin
professionals as well as in the scarcity of materiał resources.
Montenegrin archaeology has come to a troubled standstill at the crossroads of a tra-
ditional understanding of science on one hand and the possibility of applying other theo-
retical and methodological techniąues on the other. However, the latter remains only
1 This work is part of broader research conducted by
the author for the purposes of his master’s thesis in
the course of his graduate studies at the Institute of
Archaeology of the University of Warsaw under the
supervision of Prof. Piotr Dyczek (UW) and Prof.
Włodzimierz Rączkowski (UAM).
2 Elachi, van Zyl 2006, p. 1.
3 For example, see Wilson 2000.