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Automated Detection of Hillforts in Remote Sensing Imagery With Deep Multimodal Segmentation

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 297-311, April/June 2025.
Recent advancements in remote sensing and artificial intelligence can potentially revolutionize the automated detection of archaeological sites. However, the challenging task of interpreting remote sensing imagery combined with the intricate shapes of ...
Daniel Canedo, João Fonte, Rita Dias, Tiago do Pereiro, Luís Gonçalves-Seco, Marta Vázquez, P. Georgieva, António J. R. Neves   +7 more
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Hillforts – built by collective action or coercive leadership? Socio-economic and military organization in eastern Norway AD 1–600

Viking
In this article, we will examine the socio-economic and military landscape of the Early Iron Age (AD 1–600) in the historical county of Vingulmark, which consisted of the area from Eiker in the west to Bohuslän in the east.
Marie Ødegaard, Arild L. Teigen
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Central places or ritual places and the oldest hillforts in Slavic territory in Central and Eastern Europe (5th/6th–7th centuries)

Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae
Besides the open settlements commonly linked with Early Slavs, another settlement type, consisting of a hillfort-like part and some small hamlets in its vicinity, is also present in the 5th/6th–7th-century AD archaeological record of Eastern and Central ...
Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski
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Functional Evolution of the Kernavė Hillforts in the Iron Age: New Intepretations of Old Data

Archaeologia Lituana, 2019
This article explores the finds and post-excavation reports of earlier archaeological investigations in the five Kernavė hillforts. The detailed analysis of the assembled finds, discovered features and structures made it possible to revise and improve ...
Rokas Vengalis, Gintautas Vėlius
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TRANSFORMATION OF FORTIFICATIONS FROM ANCIENT HILLFORTS TO THE FIRST RUSSIAN TOWNS OF THE TRANS-URALS: THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGIN OF URBANIZATION

Теория и практика археологических исследований
In this article, a hypothesis of the origin and development of hillforts, proto-towns and urban structures in the Trans-Urals is proposed from the perspective of the search for the origins of urbanization.
С.И. Цембалюк, О.М. Аношко, С.В. Берлина   +2 more
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Current Issues and Prospects of Study the Karayakupovo Culture Hillforts

Поволжская археология
Due to the increased interest in Magyar issues in the study of Ural-Volga antiquities, the interest of researchers in the issues of Karayakupovo-Kushnarenkovo materials has also awakened.
Ovsyannikov Vladimir V. , Ruslanov Evgeny V., Khurmaev Anvar A.   +2 more
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Italy’s Hidden Hillforts: A Large-Scale Lidar-Based Mapping of Samnium [PDF]

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2022
This article presents the first results of the Ancient Hillforts Survey, a large-scale lidar-based analysis and ground-truthing aimed at creating a representative and comparative dataset of hillforts in Italy unbiased by site location or vegetational ...
Giacomo Fontana
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Rethinking the Size and Complexity of Iron Age Hillforts in NW Iberia Thanks to Aerial Archaeology and Geophysics [PDF]

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 63-85, January/March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper tackles one key limitation in the analysis of Iron Age communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the limited exploration of areas beyond the fortified settlements known as castros (hillforts). The vast majority of archaeological studies have focused exclusively on the areas inside the walls of these settlements, which are ...
César Parcero‐Oubiña, Carlos Otero Vilariño, María Gómez‐Faro, Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro, Pastor Fábrega‐Álvarez, Juan Torrejón Valdelomar, Marta Crespo Fernández, David González Álvarez   +7 more
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8th-10th century hillforts in the Sudetes – exploring current state of research and observations, towards new horizons

Acta archaeologica Carpathica, 2021
The article presents the latest results of archaeological studies on the 8th-10th century hillforts in the Sudetes. The authors present previously unknown structures, found through the analysis of aerial scans using the ALS method.
Ewa Lisowska, Krzysztof Jaworski
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Wood-And-Earth Materials in the Military Architecture of Forest-Steppe Saltovo-Mayaki Hillforts

КОНСЕНСУС
The article presents the main results of a study on forest-steppe Saltovo-Mayaki hillforts, whose defensive structures show no evidence of the use of building stone or its substitute, fired brick, and feature only wood-and-earth fortifications.
Hennadii Svystun, Viktor Kvitkovskyi
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