Geophysical Survey (Investigation Type)
Investigations that rely on ground-based instrument sensing techniques to create images and/or maps for archaeological research (e.g. magnetometry, resistivity, or ground penetrating radar).
426-450 (629 Records)
For over 15 years, Mexican and American archaeologists and students have dug ancient ruins, walked the high desert landscape, and worked in laboratories to understand the rise and fall of La Quemada, Zacatecas. We want to know why societies become complex, developing social hierarchies with specialized economic, political, and religious roles for their members. Why do civilizations expand? Northern Mexico's ancient past is an ideal context for studying these questions. During the period A.D....
The Laguna Plata Site Revisited: Current Testing and Analysis of New and Existing Assemblages at LA 5148, Lea County, New Mexico (2010)
This document, published by TRC Environmental, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico under contract with the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office, carried out the required archaeological and geomorphologic investigations at LA 5148, Lea County, New Mexico, as well as an analysis of existing artifact collections from the same site. Under the Bureau of Land Management’s Permian Basin Mitigation Program, TRC carried out Task Order 05 with the goal of providing a more comprehensive...
Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes and the Earthquake Deformation Cycle Around Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska (2005)
This document details the history of relative seas level changes and earthquake deformation cycles in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Multiple peat-silt couplets preserved in tidal marsh sediment sequences suggest that numerous great plate boundary earthquakes caused the coast around Cook Inlet, Alaska, to subside over the past 3500 years. Field and laboratory analyses of the two youngest couplets record the well-documented earthquake of AD 1964 and the penultimate one, approximately 850 call yr BP. Diatom...
Late-Wisconsin Event in the Upper Cook Inlet Region, Southcentral Alaska (1995)
The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) presents Short Notes on Alaska Geology 1995, the ninth issue in this series. There are ten papers, two each in Quaternary geology, structural geology, stratigraphy-sedimentology, and paleontology, and one each in economic geology and geochemistry. Almost all geographic regions of the State are represented. Overall, they reflect the wide range of subjects and broad geographic distribution of current geologic research in...
Letters from Ed Baker to John A. Wildie, Geo-Archaeological Investigations of 11 Archaeological Sites at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas (2005)
A number of letters between John A. Wildie and Ed Baker in regards to additional investigations of eleven archaeological sites. It is recommended that geo-archaeological investigation be performed. The letters range in date from September 16-22, 2005.
Linked Provenience-Feature Class (2000)
The linked provenience category is an organized way to describe how a feature was excavated, and where artifacts were found within that feature. The categories are numerically based in order to systematically define excavation strategy and the execution of that strategy. Each vertical and horizontal strategy is denoted with a corresponding number---for example horizontal excavation strategies are broken down into whole study unit, locus, segment, half, strip, quadrant, etc. (Wilshusen et al....
A listing of geophysical surveys in the Americas (1999)
Summary of surveys that were done before about 1999.
Lithic Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.
A Magnetic Analysis of Kiln Alpha at Choban-Kule (1998)
Attempt at dating a Medieval kiln; survey for Tatyana Smekalova.
Magnetic analysis of kilns (1994)
Analysis of the direction of magnetization within a medieval kiln in Crimea for Tatyana Smekalova (St. Petersburg State University).
A magnetic analysis of part of Ruinmark A at Hald (2011)
historical site in Denmark
A magnetic analysis of the kilns within the Ilka site at Mangup (2012)
Survey by Tatiana Smekalova (Aarhus University); estimated direction of magnetization within the kilns.
Magnetic and conductivity surveys at Drewry's Bluff (2007)
Magnetic and conductivity surveys at the Richmond Civil War battlefield. Survey for David Dutton (Dutton Associates).
Magnetic and Conductivity Surveys at Structures 163 and 165 (2002)
Conductivity and magnetic surveys were done on Jamestown Island for Eric Deets (Jamestown Rediscovery).
The Magnetic Anomaly of a Brick Foundation (1992)
Even a large foundation, such as that at the Great Brick Chapel in St. Mary's City, causes a complex pattern. Geosight technical report #3.
The Magnetic Anomaly of a Mound (1996)
the effect of topography
Magnetic Approximations of Kilns (1998)
Mathematical models that can approximate the magnetic patterns of kilns and furnaces. For Tatyana Smekalova (St. Petersburg State University).
Magnetic Directions of Furnaces in Wales (1999)
Analysis of magnetic maps measured over iron furnaces suggests their dates. Survey by Tatiana Smekalova (St. Petersburg State U) for Peter Crew (Plas Tan y Bwlch, Wales).
A magnetic exploration for early iron furnaces at Maglegård (2011)
A survey on the Danish island of Bornholm done with Tatiana Smekalova (Moesgaard Museum) for Olfert Voss (Frederiksberg, Denmark) locates three cooking pits and one block of iron-containing slag.
A magnetic exploration of Brændesgård in 2012 (2012)
Magnetic survey with Tatiana Smekalova locates no complete blocks of iron-containing slag; however, many other features were revealed. Survey for Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen (Bornholms Museum) and Olfert Voss (Frederiksberg).
Magnetic Gradient Survey of Seminoe's Fort on the Tom Sun Ranch Along the Oregon and California National Historic Trails, Natrona County, Wyoming (2002)
Seminoe’s Fort was a trading post along the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Oregon National Historic Trails near Devils Gate in southwestern Natrona County, Wyoming, which was used in various ways from 1852 to 1857. Over the decades since the abandonment and destruction of the fort, the exact location of the small trading post, designated 48NA288, was lost in the memory of the American people. The National Park Service’s Long Distance Trail Office in Salt Lake City requested the Midwest...
A Magnetic Gradiometer Survey of the Waterline Corridor at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (2000)
In August 1999, archeologists from the Midwest Archeological Center conducted a magnetic survey of the existing waterline alignment at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. This was done as the first phase of a three-phase project whose overall goal is to assist the park in achieving Section 106 compliance in conjunction with proposed Fiscal Year 2000 installation of a new waterline. The routes of the current waterline and its replacement transect two known significant sites - the...
Magnetic maps of three Danish slag blocks (2004)
Detailed magnetic maps over three excavated blocks of iron-containing slag. Survey with Tatiana Smekalova and Sergei Smekalov for Olfert Voss (Nationalmuseet).
Magnetic properties of a medieval iron artifact from Aarhus (2010)
laboratory measurements reveal less magnetism than anticipated
The Magnetic Properties of Archaeological Materials (1999)
Measurements on many samples. Technical report 5