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• Rocks and Ruins found around Kailash
Photo Gallery Tom Sever
• Archaeological remote sensing • The pre-Buddhist archaeological sites around Mount Kailash (Ti-se). A major center of civilization in ancient upper Tibet
John Vincent Bellezza
Introduction Archaeologists want to know how ancient people successfully adapted to their environments and the factors that may have led to collapse or disappearance of old structures, buildings and temples. Remote sensing can be used for detecting surface and shallow depth archaeological formations in a rapid and accurate manner. Tom Sever discusses the technology of Remote sensing by which the characteristics of objects of interest can be identified and measured without direct exploration. The articles in this chapter describe the various Remote Sensing instruments and computational techniques that can be used to discover the buried structure. The article by John Vincent Bellezza explains about archaeological sites around Kailash that were explored and documented. He is an archaeologist who visited Tibet regularly every year for last twenty to twenty five years, investigating the archaeological sites in Northern Tibet. He also joined the team in 2009 to look for Ashtapad site in the Mt. Kailash area. Photos of rocks and ruins found around Kailash area are given in this chapter.
