For entertainment, I sometimes surf conspiracy / amateur-science
websites. Apart from the usefulness of mapping archaeological finds with
Google Earth, many persons have presented claims of dubious structures,
secret installations, overlapping to mounds, and so on.
I wonder how the two approaches might intersect and validate claims of
amateur researchers ...
-Brent
mIEKAL aND wrote:
Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm
After 25 years of gritty field work, UNC Chapel Hill archaeologist
Scott Madry has dug up a new way to hunt for ancient ruins -- without
leaving home.
Last year, Madry read how an Italian man accidentally discovered the
outline of an ancient Roman villa while looking at his house on Google
Earth.
Madry explores how a Celtic people called the Aedui lived in France
for about three centuries starting about 300 B.C.
Madry got out his laptop, fired up Google Earth and looked over lands
in Burgundy, near his research area. Immediately, he spotted features
that, to his trained eye, resembled outlines of Iron Age, Bronze Age,
ancient Roman and medieval residences, forts, roads and monuments.
