Dakhleh Oasis Project, Columbia University: Excavations at Amheida 2007, Topographic Work

Abstract

The topographic work carried out during the 2007 excavation season was preceded by the verification and re-definition of fixed survey points, due to the impossibility of identifying all the stakes used as benchmarks during the previous seasons of survey (2001-2006); this situation required the elaboration of a new and permanent traverse in which it was possible to include the whole site, beginning from the already extant points S1 and S2 and adding three new station points (S3-5) that were cemented to the ground.