Archaeology & Drones: Mapping Neolithic Structures in the Black Desert, Jordan

By Austin Hill and Yorke Rowan
Backed by Stanley Meyers, Faye G. Hill, Jane Eva Baxter, Sebastian Heath, Andrea Dudek, Andy Dailey, Robert Brenner, Anders Blomquist, Benjamin Porter, Anne M Zimmermann, and 52 other backers
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University of Chicago
Woodbury, New Jersey
Anthropology
DOI: 10.18258/6274
$4,989
Raised of $4,540 Goal
109%
Funded on 4/08/16
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  • jamie shaw
    jamie shawBacker
    I am thrilled you met your goal! Feel free to put this towards a couple martinis and some hummus.
    Apr 06, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Will do, we will have celebratory hummus after the successful mapping!
    Apr 06, 2016
  • Sveta Matskevich
    Sveta MatskevichBacker
    Congratulations!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks Sveta, we are excited!
    Apr 05, 2016
  • Sarah Kansa
    Sarah KansaBacker
    CONGRATS!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks, we are off in just a few weeks!
    Apr 05, 2016
  • Alexandra Mack
    Alexandra MackBacker
    Congrats on getting your full funding!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks for helping to make it happen Alex!
    Apr 05, 2016
  • Benjamin Porter
    Benjamin PorterBacker
    This is a great project and I am happy to support this great team in their exploration of an understudied area of the Middle East!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks so much for your support and donation Benjamin, we really appreciate it!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Jill Hilditch
    Jill HilditchBacker
    Fingers crossed eh?
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Right, fingers and toes!
    Apr 04, 2016
  • Clive Vella
    Clive VellaBacker
    Good luck you guys, I will share this project as far as I can!
    Mar 29, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks so much Clive, for the backing and the sharing!
    Mar 29, 2016
  • Alison Betts
    Alison BettsBacker
    Good luck with it! Alison
    Mar 15, 2016
  • Austin Hill
    Austin HillResearcher
    Thank you, Alison!
    Mar 24, 2016
  • Serge Avery
    Serge AveryBacker
    Happy to support Univ of Chicago archaeologist Yorke Rowan in finding sites in the deserts of Jordan
    Feb 28, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Thanks Serge! Once we have collected the data and mapped it, perhaps your students will be interested in the crowdsourcing side, where they can join the project by identifying structures.
    Apr 03, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    Of course there are gifts! In this one, you can participate (by working for free!!) by joining in the identification of structures in the images after we mapping the region. Thats like a gift, right? ;-)
    Feb 23, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    That is to say, "after we map the region", we will seek your help identifying the ancient structures!
    Feb 25, 2016
  • Andrea Dudek
    Andrea DudekBacker
    What no gifts like other crowd-sourcing projects?
    Feb 23, 2016
  • Emily Hanscam
    Emily HanscamBacker
    I didn't see anything on your budget for fly control.. Good luck guys!
    Feb 23, 2016
  • Yorke Rowan
    Yorke RowanResearcher
    We're counting on the drones to annoy the flies so much they go away. Thanks!
    Feb 23, 2016