Changing the Picture – 1000 Hectare High Resolution Magnetometry on the Protected Zone of a World Heritage Site at Avebury, UK

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Monumental Surveys: New Insights from Landscape-Scale Geophysics" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Avebury and Stonehenge, two iconic prehistoric sites in the heart of England, both listed on UNESCO’s list of world heritage have undergone intensive research during the past century. Nevertheless, evolving technologies open access to new data on a landscape scale, thus adding more and surprising information helping to reach out beyond the state of the art. A joint international team has investigated the area between Windmill hill and Silbury hill around the henge monument at Avebury. More than 1000 hectares have been covered so far and a resolution of 12.5 cm. These big data have already helped to change the overall picture of the use of the landscape from early Neolithic times until the medieval period. The process of inclusion of already existing monuments into the landscape pattern, respect for existing monuments of religious character by later occupation will be explained during this presentation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Monumental Surveys: New Insights from Landscape-Scale Geophysics   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25459