Ground-Truthing GRP Results at A New Hampshire Burial Ground: Narrowing the Divide Between "Anomaly" and Graveshaft.
Author(s): Kathleen L Wheeler
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Independent Archaeological Consulting followed up the ground-penetrating radar survey with a 100% recovery of a burial ground in Rochester, New Hampshire. The GPR survey enumerated 198 anomalies consistent with the shape and depth of burial shafts, but IAC discovered only 89 graveshafts. Non-grave anomalies ranged from gravel veins to buried stumps and rotten roots. The GPR results suggested more than double the number of graves, arranged with greater complexity than was found. This paper explores the gap between the non-intrusive survey and the bioarchaeological effort, posing the question: how can archaeologists enhance their understanding of GPR to form better predictions about burial features?
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Ground-Truthing GRP Results at A New Hampshire Burial Ground: Narrowing the Divide Between "Anomaly" and Graveshaft.. Kathleen L Wheeler. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457118)
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Keywords
General
Burial Ground
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GPR
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ground-truthing
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1805-1900
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 844