Non-invasive prospection covers a wide range of activities aimed at identifying and protecting archaeological sites. Among them, we distinguish primarily two groups of non-invasive archaeological methods:

remote sensing methods – e.g. LiDAR, satellite imaging, aerial imaging, photogrammetry, thermal imaging;

geophysical methods – e.g. magnetometry, electrical resistivity measurements.

Geoarchaeology includes interdisciplinary activities in the sphere of geography, geology, geodesy, geophysics and other Earth sciences used for archaeological research. Geology and seismology remain particularly interesting and important within our activities. Research in these areas may bring us closer to knowing the answers to troubling questions – was there ever a port in ancient Nicaea? Where was the imperial palace?

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Statistical analyzes are an important tool in archaeology. Thanks to them, it is possible, among other things, to interpret data collected in laboratory conditions and during field research. They are also used to analyze the relationship between many variables, for example the age and origin of a given artifact or the location of specific architectural objects and their correlation with the urban layout. Statistics also enables the examination of many hypotheses and helps in their verification. In turn, thanks to the visualization method, we can view archaeological data in the form of three-dimensional charts that present various variables (for example, the location of given architectural structures in the context of geology, hydrology and urban tissue in a given area).

The analysis of monuments is often a very complex process. It includes research on the raw material (usually many raw materials) from which the object/artifact was created – a set of its features, mapping its sources of occurrence, places of discovery, techniques of its processing and final form; it is also testing the contact of a given raw material with other materials – wood, plants, bones, leather, etc. Finally, a detailed analysis of the function/purpose of the object/ monument, reconstruction of its “biography”.