Kites in the local paper! Awesome new exhibit on declassified spy plane images for archaeological research now open , curated by , senior member of KiC, with some 3d data and drone image contributions by and the KiC project!
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The Kites in Context Project is an funded and affiliated initiative studying ancient animal hunting traps in eastern Jordan and beyond.
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If you live in Philadelphia or find yourself there (over the next year), visit the new exhibit that I curated, "U-2 Spy Planes & Aerial Archaeology"! Opens today!
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A wonderful, evocative post about the 2022 season and seeing the landscape by , up now on the blog! #nsfstories #kitesincontext
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This is so cool!
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So many great articles on kites this week! Congrats twitter.com/EAMENA123/stat…
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If you are interested in more research on kites, check out Barge et al., doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr or Groucutt et al., doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr
or and globalkites.fr
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Our new paper is out!!!
‘Kites of AlUla County and the Harrat Uwayrid, Saudi Arabia’ is #OpenAccess in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (AAE) and can be downloaded here: doi.org/10.1111/aae.12 This paper was spearheaded by . Here is a thread about the paper. 🧵1/13
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Check the project from one of the first users of Reach RS2+! chose the new Emlid receiver for their study of ancient animals’ hunting traps in Jordan.
Great photo, and !
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@achiii setting up the @emlid for more recording of kites @KitesinContext @ymrowan @UPennAnth @orientalinst @UChicago @NSF
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Our 2022 inaugural season is now over! Extra special thanks to our tenacious crew, for their hard work on the excavation, helping to successfully begin our direct investigation of kites! #nsfstories
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The droning has finished for 2022. A very successful aerial survey campaign. We visited, photographed, and mapped 16 kites, resulting in ~14,000 images. Here are just a few of them. #nsfstories
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More droning with and
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In January of 2020, and I sat down together and started developing an idea for a new project. Today we are heading out to the field to begin the fieldwork phase of that project! #nsfstories
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We are here and have our permit from ! Getting ready to head out to the field.
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7/7 All of these are from 3 different generators, and many variations on the text prompts. I can't get enough. It is fascinating how they combine various elements of the landscape, stylistic choices, and people based on the prompt. Try one for yourself: huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-m
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It doesn't do particularly well with text... I think the first one here is supposed to be a vintage movie poster and should include the words "badia" and "Jordan" (5/7)
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More #AIgenerated vintage travel art for the Black Desert. Sometimes I asked it to include some gazelle. Only once did I try ALSO giving it an image to work from along with the text prompt (the second one here) (2/7)
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Inspired by a recent post by , and as a distraction from fieldwork prep, I have been experimenting with feeding variations on the phrase "Vintage Travel Poster, Badia Desert, Jordan" to AI text-to-image generators. Computer generated art is weird and cool. A thread... (1/
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We are busy with fieldwork prep, thinking about the badia, animal traps, and drones. Will post updates and photos here as the project gets underway!
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Check out our new paper on drones and the Neolithic landscape in the badia region of Jordan. A prelude to the project with . #drones #BlackDesert
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