ANTH201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Weapon Of Mass Destruction, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Maritime Archaeology
22 Sep 2016
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Probes- one of the oldest techniques for probing soil(rods,borers) >> more commonly used for environmental archaeology, you can strike solids or hollows. Hand coring- labour intensive in getting it into the ground, eventually you abstract a long sediment cord which gives us environmental data which is key for info about the site. Mechanical coring- more common, not labour intensive- machine based. Shoving testing/test pits- take a shovel into a ground and simply see what you find. Test piting is for more large scale investigation. Ground penetrating radar- pulling a sled across the ground, whereas the sound waves give us probable pit features. They have been upgraded, small and portable, looks like a lawn mower. >> used for military applications to see what is below the ground ahead of them. Resistivity surveys- measures the variation on the resistance of the ground to electric current, recorded by walking a set of transects: lanes across a site) - needs soil moisture.
