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Aerial Archaeology Research Group
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A community of archaeologists, heritage professionals, researchers, students and independent scholars dedicated to education, research and outreach initiatives involving the acquisition and application of data from airborne and spaceborne platforms.
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AARGnews Spotlight: 📣Drone-based magnetometer survey📣
How do you speed up a geophysical survey of an archaeological site? By using an aerial platform!
In a study supported by an AARG Fund grant, Kseniia Bondar et al describe their use of a UAV mag to survey 2 Roman forts in Ukraine #geophysics
© CC-BY K. Bondar et al. AARGnews 71 (2025) © CC-BY K. Bondar et al. AARGnews 71 (2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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As part of the AARG Conference a group us enjoyed a field trip to Halsstein Bygdeborg / Hillfort in Levanger, Nord-Trøndelag. Dating from the Bronze - Iron Age it had been burned down and rebuilt several times. You can see more photos in the latest AARGnews at aargonline.com/
#HillfortsWednesday
A groupd of archaeologists look down across the hillfort ramparts which are grass covered and set amongst trees Earthworks relating to the hillfort ramparts set amongst green trees Fieldtrip participants walk up a short hillock through an entranceway in the ramparts of the hillfort Archaeologists walk alongside the ramparts of the hillfort in a low plateau surrounded by trees
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Last week AARG supported 5 members to attend a TRAIL (Training and Research in the Archaeological Interpretation of LiDAR) workshop in Slovenia. Attendees enhanced their knowledge of LiDAR and machine learning. Thanks to Žiga Kokalj from ZRC SAZU for an excellent event!
#LIDAR #ALS #AI #archaeology
students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen behind the camera students sat in a lecture room attending a workshop. Some are looking at laptops, some at the screen beyond the photo a group of people stand on a woodland trail on a fieldtrip listening to the tour leader talk eight people smile for the camera beside a screen promoting the TRAIL event
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Hot off the press - the current issue of #AARGnews is available to download 🎉 Issue 71 shares postcards from the 42nd #AARG Conference in Trondheim, plus articles from Central Bohemia to the Ukraine. 🌎
aargonline.com/wp/aarg-news/
Enjoy!
#archaeology #aerialarchaeology #remotesensing #ALS
The front cover of issue 71 of AARGnews showing a coastal landscape with details of the issue articles
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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On this wonderful #HillfortsWednesday we look back at issue 68 of AARGnews where our Editor's Picture focussed on Uffington Castle - an Iron Age univallate hillfort. Environment Agency LiDAR shows incredible detail, including medieval ridge and furrow within the hillfort itself!
LiDAR DTM visualisation of Uffington IA Hillfort showing the univallate rampart enclosures and ridge and furrow earthworks A historical black and white aerial photograph of the IA Uffington Hillfort, taken from AARGnews issue 68. Extract from a scanned image downloaded from the US Geological Survey EarthExplorer website.
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Wazzat #4 is live in the April 2025 AARGnews! 🛰️

[1/2] Spotted on declassified HEXAGON & Google Earth imagery, this enigmatic linear feature in Ukraine spans ~1.5 km, with two light-toned bands + a faint ditch at the NW end. Banks? Cursus? Something else entirely?
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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💣💣💣One week to go! Call for Papers for AARG 2025 closes on 30th April! Submit your abstract here: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa... and join us for two days of #aerialarchaeology and #remotesensing by the Trondheim fjord! 🛰️🛫📷
April 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Call for Papers for AARG 2025 closes in two weeks! Get your submissions ready and fire them our way using the registration form here: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
#aerialarchaeology #remotesensing
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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🚨 Call for Papers NOW OPEN! 🚨
The 42nd AARG Meeting is happening in Trondheim, Norway on 11–13 Sept 2025. Organised by AARG & NTNU’s Dept. of Archaeology.

📍 Venue: Dokkhuset, a top spot by the waterfront!

Submit your paper by 30th April 2025! 🏛️✍️
More details here:
aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM