Our Slovenian partner The National Museum of Slovenia has produced two short exemplary videos. The first video is about an archaeological landscape that needs to be visualized. The second video is about LIDAR as a key technology for exploring and visualizing an archeological landscape.

Between Ocra and Albion
As part of the project, we took a closer look at the archaeological landscape with the archaeological sites located between Ilirska Bistrica and Postojna in Slovenia. This region is extremely interesting, because it has so many archaeological sites. This whole ridge extending, as mentioned, somewhere from the outskirts of Postojna and up to Ilirska Bistrica is dotted with hillforts and other archaeological evidence.

Take a bird's eye view with our Slovenian partner The National Museum of Slovenia and the LiDAR technology
The Iron Age communities settling in the Notranjska region in the first millennium BC left many traces preserved as archaeological sites in this region.

The ruins of hillforts, hilltop settlements fortified with mighty stone ramparts, can be recognised at first glance. As these settlements werde abandoned, the walls collapsed and can now be recognized by discerning eyes of archaeologists as stoneheaps, masses and piles of stones. 

A truly revolutionary development of recent years is the LiDAR technology. This type of laser scanning of the earth's surface from the plane hass suddenly given us, or rather revealed a bird's eye view of not only the hillforts, but also of all the areas in between. Bostjan Laharnar, Curator for Prehistory, Narodni muzej Slovenije / National Museum of Slovenia: