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    Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology
    Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology
    Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology
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    Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology

    By Lawrence B. Conyers

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    There has long been a strong collaboration between geologists and archaeologists, and the sub-field of geoarchaeology is well developed as a discipline in its own right.  This book now bridges the gap between those fields and the geophysical technique of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), which allows for three-dimensional analysis of the ground to visualize both geological and archaeological materials.  This method has the ability to produce images of the ground that display complex packages of materials, and allows researchers to integrate sedimentary units, soils and associated archaeological features in ways not possible using standard excavation techniques.   The ability of GPR to visualize all these buried units  can help archaeologists place ancient people within the landscapes and environments of their time, and understand their burial and preservation phenomena in three-dimensions.

    Readership: Advanced students in archaeology and geoarchaeology, as well as practicing archaeologists with an interest in GPS techniques.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJan 14, 2016
    ISBN9781118950029
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      Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology - Lawrence B. Conyers

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      Introduction to Ground-penetrating Radar in Geoarchaeology Studies

      Abstract: Geology and archaeology have long been integrated as a way to understand site formation processes, place artifacts within an environmental context, and as a way to study ancient people within the landscapes where they worked and lived. An analysis of sedimentary environments has long been necessary in this endeavor, but is often constrained by a lack of excavations, exposures, and other data to study areas in a three-dimensional way. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has unique three-dimensional abilities to place ancient people into an environmental context by integrating both archaeological and geological information within the buried context of a site over wider areas that is usually possible. The GPR method can accomplish this because it is based on the analysis of reflections produced from the interfaces and layers of geological units in the ground that are then studied three dimensionally. When this is done, robust analyses of buried geological and archaeological materials can be done for subsurface areas not visible at the surface in order to generate more holistic analyses of geoarchaeological studies.

      Keywords: environmental context, sedimentary environments, three-dimensional analysis, buried materials and strata, stratigraphy, reflection generation, environmental reconstruction

      Introduction

      There has been a long period of collaboration between geologists and archaeologists, as it is impossible to separate the geological record from archaeological materials preserved within sediments and soils. These cross-disciplinary geoarchaeology studies involved stratigraphic analysis, environmental reconstructions, site selection for future excavations, and an analysis of site preservation and postabandonment processes (Butzer 1971; Rapp and Hill 2006). More recently, these types of collaborative geological and archaeological studies have included landscape analysis that places people within an often complex and changing environment (Bruno and Thomas 2008; Constante et al. 2010; Stern 2008). The inclusion of geophysical analysis within geological and archaeological studies has occurred more recently and is beginning to make an impact in many research projects (Campana and Piro 2008; Kvamme 2003) as buried deposits can be studied and integrated with more limited excavations and exposures. These geophysical studies for the most part employ magnetics, electromagnetic induction and electrical resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The use of these types of geophysical methods allows a more complete and broader aerial analysis of complex buried (and otherwise invisible) archaeological and geological materials than was possible in the past (Johnson

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