September 19 – 24, 2011 Izmir-TURKEY
September, 19, 2011, Monday
10.00 – 18.00 Registration (registration could also be done during the conference)
19.00 – 22.00 Welcome Cocktail (Historical Coal Gas Factory, Alsancak-Ýzmir)
September, 20, 2011, Tuesday
10.00 – 12.00 Conference Opening
12.00 – 13.00 Coffee Break and Lunch
Invited Paper Session: Archaeological Prospection in Anatolia
Chairman: Armin Schmidt
13.00 – 13.30
Archaeological prospection in Anatolia: Past, present and future (Invited Paper) - Mahmut G. Drahor
13.30 – 14.00
Development of the Bavarian magnetometer system and the history of its application on archaeological sites on Anatolia (Invited Paper) - Jörg W. E. Fassbinder
14.00 – 14.30 Searching for pottery kilns on Turkish archaeological sites (Invited Paper) - Albert Hesse
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee Break
1st Session: Remote Sensing, GIS, Imaging
Chairman: Salvatore Piro
15.00 – 15.20
Advancing archaeological airborne remote sensing
Michael Doneus, Wolfgang Neubauer, Geert Verhoeven, Christian Briese
15.20 – 15.40
Reconstruction of the city grid of ancient Ptolemais on the base of results of non-invasive surveys
Krzysztof Misiewicz, Wiesław Małkowski
15.40 – 16.00
Multipol-SAR-Survey of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Palmyra (Syria)
Roland Linck, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Konstantinos Papathanassiou
16.00 – 16.20
Identity in diversity. Aerophotogrammetry, 3D laser scanning and magnetic prospecting on Gumelnita tells of Muntenia (Romania)
Andrei Asandulesei, Catalin Bem, Carmen Bem, Bogdan Venedict, Vasile Cotiuga
16.20 – 16.45 Coffee Break
2nd Session: Poster
Chairman: Michael Doneus
16.45 – 17.00
Integrated geophysical investigations in Nemea and Tsoungiza
Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Sarris, S. Michalopoulou, M. C. Salvi
17.00 – 17.15
It never rains but it pours-Earth resistance seasonality testing in Bradford
Andrew Parkyn, Armin Schmidt, Chris Gaffney, Roger Walker
17.15 – 17.30
The DART Project: A major new investigations into what lies beneath our soils
Robert Fry, Chris Gaffney, Anthony Beck
17.30 – 17.45
Geophysical investigation of the Hittite city of Sarissa
Ercan Erkul, Harald Stümpel, Tina Wunderlich
September, 21, 2011, Wednesday
3rd Session: Technical Aspects and Archaeological Feedback
Chairman: Tomasz Herbich
09.00 – 09.20
Magnetometry near to the geomagnetic Equator
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Tomasz Gorka
09.20 – 09.40
Geophysical exploration of tumuli: Examples from the regions of Macedonia and Thrace (N. Greece)
Gregory N. Tsokas, Panagiotis I. Tsourlos, Alexandros Stampolidis, George Vargemezis
09.40 – 10.00
Multi-signal EMI and geoarchaeology - Evaluating integrated magnetic susceptibility measurements for archaeological prospection
Pilippe De Smedt, Marc Van Meirvenne, David Simpson
10.00 – 10.20
Magnetic surveys are failing to find Archaeology: An analysis of legacy data from the West of Ireland
James Bonsall, Chris Gaffney, Ian Armit
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
4th Session: Remote Sensing, GIS, Imaging
Chairman: Wolfgang Neubauer
10.40 – 11.00
The remote sensing analysis and geophysical surveys at the ancient city of Kelainai – Apameia Kibotos (Dinar, Turkey)
Askold Ivantchik, Andrey Bielinski, Alexey Dovgalev, Krzysztof Misiewicz
11.00 – 11.20
VEGA GRANT Slovakia: Hillforts - Early medieval power centres. Based on the examples of new excavated hillforts from western Slovakia (9th- 10th cent.) - The archaeological prospection of the “Slovenská brána” Region in Slovakia
Martin Bartik, Mário Bielich, Barbara Zajacova
11.20 – 11.40
Water environment map around El Zayyan Temple in Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt based on ALOS pan-sharpened imagery Makiko Watanabe, Katsura Kogawa, Hiroyuki Kamei, Toshiro Sugimura, Tomoaki
Nakano
11.40 – 13.00 Coffee Break and Lunch
5th Session: Site Based Studies
Chairman: Chris Gaffney
13.00 – 13.20
Pessinus: A city without contrasts?
Armin Schmidt, Andrew Parkyn, Gocha Tsetskhladze
13.20 – 13.40
Multimethodological approach to study the Ancient Aquinum Roman town (Frosinone, Italy)
Salvatore Piro, Giuseppe Ceraudo, Daniela Zamuner, Melda Küçükdemirci
13.40 – 14.00
Stonehenge: Recent results from a ground penetrating radar survey of the monument
Neill Linford, Paul Linford, Andrew Payne, Andrew David, Louise Martin, Jacopo Sala
14.00 – 14.20
Ephesos revisited
S. Sirri Seren, Klaus Löcker, Alois Hinterleitner, Wolfgang Neubauer, Sabine Ladstätter
14.20 – 14.45 Coffee Break
September 19 – 24, 2011 Izmir-TURKEY
6th Session: Poster
Chairman: Paul Linford
14.45 – 15.00
Reconstruction of the archaeo-landscape around the area of the Magoula “Zerelia” in Almyros (Volos, NE Greece)
Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Sarris, M.C. Salvi
15.00 – 15.15
Long & winding roads: Reappraising 170 geophysical surveys from 71
Irish road schemes
James Bonsall, Chris Gaffney, Ian Armit
15.15 – 15.30
Discovering a Byzantine cross-in-square church in Ýznik using geophysics
Ercan Erkul, Tina Wunderlich, Harald Stümpel, Wolfgang Rabbel, Roman Pašteka, Serif Barıs, Ertan Peksen, Oya Yazıcı-Çakın, Philipp Niewöhner
15.30 – 15.45
Kaiserpfalz Goslar (Germany, Lower Saxony) - analysis of a new discovery on the Kaiserbleek by geophysics and old maps
Christian Schweitzer
15.45 – 16.00
Caucasian ring ditches – The easternmost prehistoric rondels in Europe?
Andrej Belinskiy, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Sabine Reinhold
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break
7th Session: Poster
Chairman: Christophe Benech
16.15 – 16.30 FlashRes64 Electrical resistivity imaging for archaeological applications
Robert Fry, Chris Gaffney, Tom Sparrow, Cathy Batt
16.30 – 16.45
The comparison of the magnetometry and excavation results in a Parthian area in North of Hormoz Strait , Iran
Babak Aminpour
16.45 – 17.00
The geophysics of ancient architecture – An examples of archaeological interpretation from Salzburg
Norbert Buthmann, Benno Zickgraf
17.00 – 17.15 The square array revisited
Andrew Parkyn, Armin Schmidt, Chris Gaffney, Roger Walker
17.15 – 17.30
Archaeogeophysical measuring in the jungle of Guatemala - Project Uaxactún
Peter Milo, Milan Kovác, Branislav Kovár
17.30 – 19.30 Trip to Agora Archaeological Site
20.00 – 23.00 Social Dinner (Balçova Thermal Hotel, Balçova-Ýzmir)
September, 22, 2011, Thursday
8th Session: Integrated Prospection Method
Chairman: Gregory N. Tsokas
09.00 – 09.20
Integrated geological and geophysical investigations to characterize the archaeological layer of the Palatine Hill (Rome, Italy)
Massimiliano Moscatelli, Francesco Stigliano, Sabatino Piscitelli, Alessandro Giocoli, Salvatore Piro, Daniela Zamuner
09.20 – 09.40
Integrated geophysical and archaeological studies for the characterisation of a portion of Imperial Palace (Domus Augustiana) on the Palatino Hill (Rome, Italy)
P. Carafa, D. Bruno, E. Giannini, Salvatore Piro, D. Zamuner, E. Di Luzio
09.40 – 10.00
Geophysical investigations in shallow water at the harbor site of Elaia
Christina Klein, Ercan Erkul, Harald Stümpel
10.00 – 10.20 Coffee Break
9th Session: Processing, Interpretation and Visualization
Chairman: Jörg W. E. Fassbinder
10.20 – 10.40
Contribution of geophysical surveys to changes of archaeological interpretation on examples of various enclosed sites in Bohemia
Roman Krivanek
10.40 – 11.00
Improving geophysical data processing and interpretation through information gained from excavations
Ercan Erkul, Tina Wunderlich, Harald Stümpel, Philipp Niewöhner
11.00 – 11.20 Archaeological interpretation of GPR data
Valeria Poscetti, Wolfgang Neubauer, Immo Trinks
11.20 – 13.00 Coffee Break and Lunch
10th Session: Poster
Chairman: Ivan Kuzma
13.00 – 13.15 GPR imaging of structural elements
Roger Sala Bartroli, Ekhine Garcia Garcia, Robert Tamba
13.15 – 13.30
Results of the magnetic survey within the fortified area on the Achaemenid Pasargadae (Central Fars, Iran)
Sébastien Gondet, Christophe Benech
13.30 – 13.45 Geophysical investigation of Danewerk
Filiz Bilgili , W. Rabbel, A. Ismaeil
13.45 – 14.00
Integrated archaeological survey, magnetometry and susceptibility prospecting
Daria Yu. Hookk, Andrei N. Mazurkevich, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder
14.00 – 14.15 Coffee Break
11th Session: Poster
Chairman: Lawrence Conyers
14.15 – 14.30
The new Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for archaeological prospection & virtual archaeology
Christian Briese, Michael Doneus, Nives Doneus, Manuel Gabler, Alois Hinterleitner, Karolin Kastowsky, Agata Klimczyk, Matthias Kucera, Klaus Löcker, Erich Nau, Wolfgang Neubauer, Valeria Poscetti, Daniel Scherzer, Immo Trinks, Mario Wallner, Geert Verhoeven, Thomas Zitz
14.30 – 14.45
Geophysical investigations for archaeological studying of the Historic Centre of Kazan
Z.M.Slepak, A.G.Sitdikov, D.N.Nurgaleev
14.45 – 15.00
Integrative archaeological prospection - Case study Stubersheimer Alb
ives Doneus, Sebastian Flöry, Alois Hinterleitner, Karolin Kastowsky, Matthias Kucera, Erich Nau, Wolfgang Neubauer, Daniel Scherzer, Rainer Schreg, Immo Trinks, Mario Wallner, Thomas Zitz
15.00 – 15.15
Comparison of SAR data, optical satellite images and GPR investigations for archaeological site detection
Salvatore Piro, M. Crespi, N. Dore, J. Patruno, Daniela Zamuner
15.15 – 15.30
Slavic burial mounds in Trencín-Kubra, Slovakia. Magnetic prospection and archaeological excavation
Beáta Milová, Peter Milo, Tomáš Tencer
15.30 – 15.50 Coffee Break
12th Session: Site Based Studies
Chairman: Apostolos Sarris
15.50 – 16.10
Ground-penetrating radar mapping of non-reflective archaeological features
Lawrence B. Conyers
16.10 – 16.30
Methodological and archaeological challenges of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project
Chris Gaffney, Vince Gaffney, Wolfgang Neubauer
16.30 – 16.50 Classification and documentation of Kurgans by magnetometry
Tomasz Gorka, Jörg W. E. Fassbinder
16.50 – 17.10
Electromagnetic surveys for paleo-landscape analyses in sedimentation areas
Joep Orbons
17.10 – 17.30
A study on modeling and interpretation in magnetic prospection for multilayered archeological settlements
Nuray Alpaslan, Mahmut G. Drahor, Meriç A. Berge, Caner Öztürk
September, 23, 2011, Friday
13th Session: Technical Aspects and Archaeological Feedback
Chairman: Alain Tabbagh
09.00 – 09.20
An algorithm for the fast 3-D inversion of direct current resistivity data using LSMR
Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Sarris
09.20 – 09.40
Efficient large-scale magnetic prospection using multi-channel fluxgate arrays and the new digitizer LEA D2
Henning Zöllner, Rudolf Kniess, Cornelius Meyer, Immo Trinks
09.40 – 10.00
3-D GPR survey with a modular system: Reducing positioning inaccuracies and linear noise
Lieven Verdonck, Frank Vermeulen
10.00 – 10.20
Full wave-field recording: STREAM X at Empuries (Girona, Spain)
Alexandre Novo, Roger Sala, Gianfranco Morelli, Juerg Leckebusch, Joaquim Tremoleda Trillla
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
14th Session: Site Based Studies and Integrated Prospection Method
Chairman: Yashushi Nishimura
10.40 – 11.00
Large-scale archaeological prospection of the Iron and Viking Age site Uppåkra in Sweden
Anders Biwall, Manuel Gabler, Alois Hinterleitner, Pär Karlsson, Matthias Kucera, Lars Larsson, Klaus Löcker, Erich Nau, Wolfgang Neubauer, Daniel Scherzer, Håkan Thorén, Timo Trinks, Mario Wallner, Thomas Zitz
11.00 – 11.20
Archaeological geophysics on the castle mound of Lossow, Brandenburg, Germany
Burkart Ullrich, Ronald Freibothe, Georg Kaufmann, Henning Zoellner, Ines Beilke-Voigt
11.20 – 11.40
The villa rustica of Deutschkreutz
Klaus Löcker, S. Sirri Seren, Alois Hinterleitner, Peter Scherrer, Florian Mauthner, Mario Wallner
11.40 – 12.00
Geophysical studies at the Agora of Smyrna
Meriç A. Berge, Mahmut G. Drahor
12.00 – 13.00 Coffee Break and Lunch
15th Session: Site Based Studies
Chairman: Nikos G. Papadopoulos
13.00 – 13.20 Geophysical surveying in Egypt: periodic report for 2009-2011
Tomasz Herbich
13.20 – 13.40
Madâ’in Sâlih (Saudi Arabia): preliminary results on the city planning of a Nabataean town
Christophe Benech
13.40 – 14.00
Total field magnetics and exploration for Paleoindian to Plains-Culture targets; Yellowstone National Park, USA
Steven D. Sheriff, Douglas H. MacDonald
14.00 – 14.20 Coffee Break
16th Session: Archaeological Prospection in Urban Sites, Restoration and Conservation
Chairman: Sırrı Seren
14.20 – 14.40
A two years regional review of the combination of geophysical survey and trial trenching for field evaluation in rescue archaeology (Alsace, France)
François-Xavier Simon, Florian Bonvalot, Antoine Ferrier, Alain Tabbagh
14.40 – 15.00 Electrostatic sliding array: a tool for urban archeological prospecting
Julien Thiesson, C. Brinon, F. Réjiba, Alain Tabbagh
15.00 – 15.20
The performance of geophysical techniques for the preservation assessment of ancient theatres in Central and Eastern Crete
Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Sarris, S. Michalopoulou, M.C. Salvi, S. Dederix
15.20 – 15.40
Apparent electrical resistivity and dielectric permittivity measurements: a tool to investigate state parameters of ancient monuments’ limestone blocks
P. Kessouri, B. Souffaché, Alain Tabbagh
15.40 – 16.00
Modeling of GPR and infrared thermography measurements at a weathered column of sand stone
Ercan Erkul, Ismail Kaplanvural, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Thomas Meier, Michael Auras
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.30 General Assembly of ISAP
17.30 – 19.30 Trip to Bayraklı (Old Smyrna) Höyük Archaeological Site
19.30 – 22.00 Gala Dinner with panoramic view of Ýzmir bay
September, 24, 2011, Saturday
Excursion
09.00 – 18.00 Ephesos Archaeological Site, House of Mary, Sirince Village