GPR Survey of the Brown Mound at Spiro
Author(s): Scott Hammerstedt; Jami Lockhart; Amanda Regnier; George Sabo; John Samuelsen
Year: 2017
Summary
This poster presents the results of GPR survey at the Brown Mound, an earthen platform mound at the Spiro site in eastern Oklahoma. The mound was targeted by looters in the 1930s and was subsequently tested in the 1930s and 1980s by professional archaeologists. However, Brown Mound remains poorly understood because, for the most part, these excavations did not extend deeply enough to provide good information on mound stratigraphy or internal features. Our survey obtained nearly 100% coverage of the remaining mound and the results, along with previous geophysical surveys, allow us to paint a more complete picture of Spiro.
Cite this Record
GPR Survey of the Brown Mound at Spiro. Scott Hammerstedt, Jami Lockhart, Amanda Regnier, George Sabo, John Samuelsen. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 428823)
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Keywords
General
Geophysics
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Mississippian
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Mounds
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 14786