Preparing for the Great War: How Lidar and GPR Helped Locate Military Training Resources

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Application of Geophysical Techniques to Military Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

To date, no comprehensive study examining World War I training had been available for the Department of Defense (DoD). In 2017, the Alabama National Guard partnered with the Mississippi National Guard and Panamerican Consultants on a DoD Legacy Resources Management Program project (CR 18-834) to synthesize existing research on the various types of World War I technology, tactics, and training, and the physical remnants of that history. The research team developed a survey tool to form a baseline inventory from all branches of DoD for both architectural and archaeological resources. Five case study locations were selected for further intensive research and the application of research questions; identifying the types of properties associated with training; and as a means to evaluate properties with reference to local, state, regional or national significance using the National Register of Historic Places Criteria. This paper will discuss the use of geophysical techniques to identify World War I resources for ground truthing.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Application of Geophysical Techniques to Military Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40422.0