Baoquan Song

Workplace and equipment of an aerial archaeologist

Staff building of a legion camp near Xanten in 2010, taken by Baoquan Song

Baoquan Song (* 1961 in Tianjin , China ) is a Sino-German aerial photograph archaeologist .

Life

From 1980 to 1982 he studied history and museum studies at Nankai University Tianjin and attended Shanghai College at Tongji University Shanghai , where he did his German Abitur in spring 1982. From 1982 to 1988 he continued his studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in the subjects of prehistory and early history , classical archeology and Chinese history , where he received his doctorate in the first-mentioned subject in 1992. Parallel to his studies, he did practical training in aerial archeology from 1984 with Otto Braasch in the Landshut branch of the Bavarian State Office for Land Monument Preservation . After that he moved back to China, where he worked as a research assistant on the research project "Possible uses of modern aerial archeology in the PR China" from 1992 to 1994 . This was followed by archaeological aerial surveys in Henan, central China, in 1996 , and archaeological aerial surveys in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region , northern China in 1997 .

In 2001 he returned to the Ruhr University Bochum, where he has been a research assistant at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory. Many more prospections followed in Europe , including a .:

• 2003 archaeological prospecting in Spain
• 2004–2008 archaeological prospecting in Romania.
• 2005–2007 archaeological prospecting in Georgia.
• 2006 archaeological prospecting in Iran.

Since 2003, aerial archaeological surveys have been taking place regularly on the Lower Rhine with a focus on the Xanten area, and since 2010 also in Westphalia.

Exhibitions

• 2017 from above! Historical cities and places in the aerial photo in Warburg in the Museum im Stern (solo exhibition)

Works

• with Klaus Leidorf : Fascination of aerial archeology: The world from a bird's eye view , WGB Theiss, Darmstadt, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8062-4093-1
• with Klaus Leidorf and Eckhard Heller: Aerial archeology: Archaeological search for traces from the air. Methods and techniques - classic and virtual , WGB Theiss, Darmstadt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3887-7
• with Marcel Emonds-Pool and Sabine Verheyen : About Aachen: the other view of Aachen , landauf.landab.Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-945017-10-4
• with Clemens Kreuzer: Langendreer, Werne and Laer in aerial photos: East of Bochum from the air With the history of the East of Bochum from the Middle Ages to the end of the mining period , FA Gimmerthal KG, Bochum, 2012, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-00 -028555-4
• The hidden side of the Ruhr area: castles and palaces from a bird's eye view , Gimmerthal, Bochum, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030595-5

Wall calendar

• Andernach from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-312-0
• Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-342-7
• Hattingen from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-432-5
• Krefeld from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-052-5
• Lippstadt from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-422-6
• Mayen from the air 2016 Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-142-3
• Neuwied aus der Luft 2016 Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-322-9
• Paderborn from the air 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-152-2
• Soest aus der Luft 2016 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89972-122-5
• Andernach 2015 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89972-311-3
• Xanten 2014 , Edition Archaea, Schwelm, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89972-040-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Baoquan Song in the catalog of the German National Library

Press reports on Baoquan Song

• Air Archaeologist - Secret Signs in the Cornfield
• 50 years - 50 faces: Baoquan Song
• What these strange stripes on the floor reveal
• The Ruhr area - land of castles and palaces

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Baoquan Song. Ruhr University Bochum, accessed on June 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ulrich Schlottmann: Aerial photo archaeologist shows pictures from the Warburg region. A look at it reveals more. In: Westfalen-Blatt . November 7, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 .