The Use of Geophysics to Image Structures at Broyhill Mound (31CW8)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Geophysical surveys were conducted at the Broyhill Mound, a protohistoric late Burke village in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians ~30 km northeast from Fort San Juan/Berry (1566-1568), to guide investigations. The site was first discovered by John Rogan for Cyrus Thomas in 1883, and then rediscovered by Richard Polhemus in 1964 and Appalachian State University in 1995. Field schools have expanded these tests in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. In 2012 a 3-D model of GPR data showed the presence of subsurface intrusions and initial results suggested a large deep anomaly at a depth of 50 cm BS. In 2018 a magnetic susceptibility survey was conducted across this same area. Field school excavations exposed a 7m diameter protohistoric Happy Valley Phase structure with a semi-subterranean floor and associated post holes – which are yet to be excavated. This investigation and these results are presented herein.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26091