EAMENA’s
Project Directors have been at the forefront of aerial archaeology in
the Middle East for over two decades, undertaking annual aerial
reconnaissance expeditions in conjunction with the Royal Jordanian Air
Force to collect up-to-date images of the landscape and archaeological
sites of Jordan. These images are then digitised and stored in the
online ‘Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East’,
along with digitised historic collections of aerial photographs from
across the region. The archive (available online at: www.apaame.org) has
provided an invaluable tool for researchers to analyse and compare
sites in the region over time but critically this work has also
highlighted the accelerated risk to sites, in particular from
agricultural and urban expansion.
EAMENA’s project directors recognised
that a radical step change was required to move from analysing and
interpreting sites to responding directly to these threats and so EAMENA
was established in January 2015. The majority of the team are based in
the School of Archaeology at Oxford with two other members based at the
Archaeology Department, University of Leicester. This project is the
first to analyse aerial data from across the whole MENA region and also
to focus on the levels and types of threats to sites, including looting.
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