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Integrated Archaeological Research: Archival Resources, Surveys, Geophysical Prospection and Excavation Approach at an Execution and Burial Site: The German Nazi Labour Camp in Treblinka

Geosciences (Basel), 2020-09, Vol.10 (9), p.336 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2020. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2076-3263 ;EISSN: 2076-3263 ;DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10090336

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Title:
Integrated Archaeological Research: Archival Resources, Surveys, Geophysical Prospection and Excavation Approach at an Execution and Burial Site: The German Nazi Labour Camp in Treblinka
Author: Różycki, Sebastian ; Zapłata, Rafał ; Karczewski, Jerzy ; Ossowski, Andrzej ; Tomczyk, Jacek
Subjects: Airborne lasers ; Archaeology ; Archives & records ; Data ; Death & dying ; Dredging ; Earth science ; Excavation ; Geographic information systems ; Geographical information systems ; geophysical prospections ; Geophysical surveys ; Geophysics ; German Nazi Treblinka I labour camp ; GPR ; Ground penetrating radar ; Historical-GIS ; Human remains ; Initiatives ; Integration ; Interdisciplinary aspects ; Labour ; Lasers ; Mass murders ; Multidisciplinary research ; Murders & murder attempts ; Nazi era ; non–destructive methods ; palimpsest ; Polls & surveys ; Prisoners ; Prisons ; Radar ; Remote sensing ; Research methods ; Resettlement ; Resources ; Sketches ; Spatial data ; World War II
Is Part Of: Geosciences (Basel), 2020-09, Vol.10 (9), p.336
Description: This article presents the results of multidisciplinary research undertaken in 2016–2019 at the German Nazi Treblinka I Forced Labour Camp. Housing 20,000 prisoners, Treblinka I was established in 1941 as a part of a network of objects such as forced labour camps, resettlement camps and prison camps that were established in the territory of occupied Poland from September 1939. This paper describes archaeological research conducted in particular on the execution site and burial site—the area where the “death pits” have been found—in the so-called Las Maliszewski (Maliszewa Forest). In this area (poorly documented) exhumation work was conducted only until 1947, so the location of these graves is only approximately known. The research was resumed at the beginning of the 21st century using, e.g., non-invasive methods and remote-sensing data. The leading aim of this article is to describe the comprehensive research strategy, with a particular stress on non-invasive geophysical surveys. The integrated archaeological research presented in this paper includes an analysis of archive materials (aerial photos, witness accounts, maps, plans, and sketches), contemporary data resources (orthophotomaps, airborne laser scanning-ALS data), field work (verification of potential objects, ground penetrating radar-GPR surveys, excavations), and the integration, analysis and interpretation of all these datasets using a GIS platform. The results of the presented study included the identification of the burial zone within the Maliszewa Forest area, including six previously unknown graves, creation of a new database, and expansion of the Historical-GIS-Treblinka. Obtained results indicate that the integration and analyses within the GIS environment of various types of remote-sensing data and geophysical measurements significantly contribute to archaeological research and increase the chances to discover previously unknown “graves” from the time when the labour camp Treblinka I functioned.
Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2076-3263
EISSN: 2076-3263
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10090336
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Integrated Archaeological Research: Archival Resources, Surveys, Geophysical Prospection and Excavation Approach at an Execution and Burial Site: The German Nazi Labour Camp in Treblinka

2020. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2076-3263 ;EISSN: 2076-3263 ;DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10090336

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