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Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• Visual Table of Contents
• List of Figures

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Location and geographic context
  • 1.2 Project background
• 2. Aims of this article
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Aims
  • 2.3 Structure of the article
• 3. A short introduction to the city of Sultan Kala
• 4. Approaches to mapping the cities: issues and assumptions
  • 4.1 Introduction: the nature of the contemporary landscape
  • 4.2 Data sets
    • 4.2.1 Aerial photographs
    • 4.2.2 Satellite imagery
    • 4.2.3 Rectification of the vertical aerial photographs
    • 4.2.4 Image processing
    • 4.2.5 Digital Terrain modelling
    • 4.2.6 A surface scatter survey
  • 4.3 Understanding the aerial and satellite images
    • 4.3.1 What are we seeing in the aerial pictures?
    • 4.3.2 Formation processes
  • 4.4 From identification to interpretation: assumptions
    • 4.4.1 The impact of research questions
    • 4.4.2 The aims of the Atlas of Islamic Merv project
    • 4.4.3 Identifying building forms: recognisable cohesions
    • 4.4.4 Houses
    • 4.4.5 Mosques
    • 4.4.6 Minarets
    • 4.4.7 Madrasas
    • 4.4.8 Suqs and bazaars
    • 4.4.9 Caravanserais, khāns, funduqs and ribats
    • 4.4.10 Other public building complexes
    • 4.4.11 Gardens, orchards and fields
    • 4.4.12 Streets and alleys
    • 4.4.13 Courtyards
    • 4.4.14 Two-storey structures
    • 4.4.15 Chronology and contemporaneous landscapes
• 5. Electronic dissemination and ontology
  • 5.1 Electronic dissemination: creativity and reuse
  • 5.2 Ontological approaches to structuring interpretations and assumptions
  • 5.3 Access and the supporting infrastructure
• 6. The approaches adopted: capturing, managing and explaining interpretation
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Tiered levels of transcription
  • 6.3 The digitisation process
    • 6.3.1 Assumptions and confidence levels
    • 6.3.2 Using different images and contrasts
    • 6.3.3 Field checking (handheld GPS)
  • 6.4 The broad brush: creativity and drawing
  • 6.5 Interpretative narratives
  • 6.6 Weblog: an ongoing debate
• 7. Studying the landscapes of Ancient Merv
• 8. The urban landscape: a city of light and shadows
  • 8.1 The landscape today
  • 8.2 Earlier boundaries to the town
  • 8.3 Streets and alleys
  • 8.4 Intra-mural gardens, orchards and fields
  • 8.5 A city of structure and complexity: a city of life, light and shadows
• 9. The suburban landscape: the smell of markets, traders, pasture, industry – mixed with the gardens of paradise
  • 9.1 Chronology
  • 9.2 Standing buildings
    • 9.2.1 Köshks
      • 9.2.1.1 The Greater Kyz Kala
      • 9.2.1.2 The Lesser Kyz Kala
    • 9.2.2 Kyz Bibi complex
  • 9.3 Buildings identifiable on the aerial images
    • 9.3.1 Caravanserais
    • 9.3.2 Other buildings and enclosures
  • 9.4 The city walls
  • 9.5 Gardens and horticulture
    • 9.5.1 Horticulture, pasture and the areas around the caravanserais
    • 9.5.2 Elite gardens
  • 9.6 Reconstructing the suburban landscape
• 10.0 Information and interpretation: changing the way the site is managed
• 11.0 Conclusions
  • 11.1 The Atlas project
  • 11.2 The way forward
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

• Search the text

• Appendix 1: The digital archive (by Sjoerd van der Linde and Tim Williams)
  • Appendix 1.1: Copyright
  • Appendix 1.2: Monuments of Merv photographic database
  • Appendix 1.3: Maps and drawings
  • Appendix 1.4: Merv movies incl. Technical approach and Copyright issues
  • Appendix 1.5: Oral interviews incl. Technical approach and Copyright issues
  • Appendix 1.6: Rotating images incl. Technical approach
  • Appendix 1.7: Slideshow narratives incl. Technical approach and Copyright issues
  • Appendix 1.8: Teachers handbook and resource/activity sheets
  • Appendix 1.9: Related documents
• Appendix 2: Weblogs - developing critical debate (by Sjoerd van der Linde)
• Appendix 2.1: How the blog will function
• Appendix 2.2: Archiving the Blog
• Appendix 2.3: Copyright issues incl. copyright statement
• Appendix 2.4: Editorial issues
• Appendix 2.5: Citation issues

Related Digital Archive: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/merv_ahrc_2008/

Related Blog: Ancient Merv blog

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