Search the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL)
About The Digital Atlas
New developments in telecommunications and information technology are revolutionizing the fields of archaeology, history, and the social sciences. The Digital Archaeology Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL) brings together many of these advances based on new discoveries and the latest content concerning one of the most politically complex but meaningful geographic regions in world heritage. The control of time and space allow archaeologists to uncover address some of the "big questions" of human history and social evolution. These include answering how and why the major technological revolutions of history occurred and influenced social and historical change in the Middle East. In broad strokes, the control of time and space are essential commodities in the construction of a heritage-based cyberinfrastructure, which come together for scholars and the general public in the DAAHL. Recent advances in GIS, high-precision radiometric dating methods, and archaeological fieldwork carried out in the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, southern Syria and the Sinai Peninsula) have helped identify significant "Global Moments" of fundamental social change in this region. In this way, the project will contribute to the University of Bergen's Global Moments in the Levant research initiative. The DAAHL project will collect, analyze and disseminate settlement pattern and new archaeological data for each key period of culture change in the Holy Land, from the Lower Paleolithic over 1.5 million years ago to the end of World War I.
The DAAHL project brings together researchers from North America, the Middle East and Europe. It is a collaborative project coordinated by:
- The California Institute of Telecommunications and Technology and the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (Calit2/CISA3) at the University of California, San Diego
- The Geo-Archaeological Information Applications (GAIA) Laboratory at Arizona State University
- The Global Moments in the Levant Project of the University of Bergen, Norway
- The Order and Conflict Collaborative, American Schools of Oriental Research and Archaeological Institute of America
- The Andrews University Institute of Archaeology and the Madaba Plains Project, Jordan
- The Center for Applied Spatial Anaysis (CASA) at the University of Arizona
How to Use This Page:
There are several ways to search for information in the DAAHL database. With the exception of Project and Bibliography searches and Site Browsing, the results always resolve to a list of sites that have the attributes you select. Project and Bibliography searches look for information in the Projects and Bibliography tables (there is an option to create a Site list from the Bibliography search). Site Browsing jumps directly to the Site Record View, and lets you browse through the site records one at a time. Click one of the links below to jump to the search method you want.
- Browse DAAHL Sites
- View All DAAHL Sites on Google Earth
- Search DAAHL Sites
- Search DAAHL Database by Site Conditions
- Search DAAHL Database by Period and/or Feature
- Search DAAHL Projects
- Search DAAHL Bibliography
Requirements for Using the Search Functions:
- You must have a version of Google Earth equivalent to 4.0.2091 (beta) or later in order to use the maps created with DAAHL. The DAAHL Google Earth .kml is created with this version of Google Earth as the baseline.
- To find out if you have this version, start Google Earth, then press Help > About Google Earth; the version number is listed in the box that opens.
- If you don't have version 4.0.2091 (beta) or a later one, press the Google Earth button below, then download and install it.
Browse DAAHL Sites
Click a letter to begin browsing sites; the browse records are sorted by site name.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ' | ` |View All DAAHL Sites on Google Earth - Set up the map symbol and press "Plot the Sites" |
Search DAAHL Sites
Search results will be displayed as a table on a new page. You can select the sites to plot, or plot all the results. Scroll to the bottom of the result list to choose the symbol properties for displaying the search results on the Google Earth map, then press one of the plot buttons.
Search DAAHL Database by Site Conditions
Site Conditions include Threats, Disturbances and Hazards. You can select any combination of one from each list, one from each of two lists, or one from any one of the lists.
Search DAAHL Database by Period and/or Feature
Search results will be displayed as a table on a new page. You can select the sites to plot, or plot all the results. Scroll to the bottom of the result list to choose the symbol properties for displaying the search results on the Google Earth map, then press one of the plot buttons.
Search DAAHL Projects |
View all Projects on Google Earth |
Search DAAHL Bibliography - Select One of these Search Methods Depending on Desired Output
Search for Bibliography RecordsThis search creates a list of Bibliography records that have whatever you type in the Keyword field somewhere in the record. For example, if you type "Albright" in the field below, you'll get back a list of all the records in the Bibliography table that have "Albright" somewhere in the record. |
Search for Site RecordsThis search creates a list of Sites that have Citations to any record in the Bibliography table with the Keyword in the Bibliography. For example, if you type "Albright" in the field below, you'll get back a list of all the sites that are referenced in works with "Albright" in the Bibliography record. The search starts in the Bibliography table, spans the Citations table, and ends up with Site records. In the resulting site list, you can select sites for display, and choose the symbol style you want, then plot the sites on Google Earth. |