Electrical Resistivity Tomography in Archaeological Applications

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) produces 2D depth profiles similar to a single ground penetrating radar (GPR) slice. While earth resistance is a technique commonly employed during broad area archaeological prospection surveys, the tomography method is generally utilized to model sediment depths or delineate subsurface archaeological features. Though the most common probe arrays for conducting resistivity tomography surveys are the inline arrangements such as Wenner and Schlumberger (and their variants), the pole-pole probe array is the preferred array for use with a GeoScan Research meters. The RM15 and RM85 units are common in archaeological prospection and so expanding their applicability to ERT surveys makes it a useful method for subsurface geophysical investigations in archaeological applications.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53801