Use of ground penetrating radar to map subsurface archaeological features in an urban area

Leucci, Giovanni; Negri, Sergio

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2005.09.006

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“…Karst cavities are also investigated by the GPR to prevent geohazards in mineral exploitation (Zajc et al, 2014;Zajc et al, 2015). The GPR is also widely used in archaeology to detect underground chambers which can have significant archaeological meaning, such as vaults, culverts, and crypts (e.g., Basile et al, 2000;Leucci & Negri, 2006;Piscitelli et al, 2007).…”

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Search for an artificially buried karst cave entrance using ground penetrating radar: a successful case of locating the S-19 Cave in the Mt. Kanin massif (NW Slovenia)

Gosar¹,

Čeru²

2016

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Abstract:The S-19 Cave was with its explored depth of 177 m one of the most important caves of the Mt. Kanin massif, but after its discovery in 1974, a huge snow avalanche protection dyke was constructed across the cave entrance. To excavate the buried cave, the accurate location of the cave had to be determined first. Since the entrance coordinates were incorrect and no markers were available, application of geophysical techniques was necessary to do this. A Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) with special 50 MHz rough terrain antennas was selected as the single suitable geophysical method for the given conditions where thick debris overlay a rugged limestone surface. Nevertheless, it was not possible to directly detect the relatively narrow cave entrance itself due to data resolution limits. However, a historical photo of the area showed that the cave entrance was located in a local depression, which therefore represented the main target of the GPR survey. Seven GPR profiles were measured across the rough and steep surface causing difficulties in traversing the area with sensitive research equipment. In all recorded radargrams a small depression was clearly imaged under debris, and recognized as a topographic feature with the cave entrance. Based on the GPR data interpretation, the exact location for digging was determined and the thickness of debris assessed at 6.5-7 m. A massive excavation by a dredger resulted in a successful opening of the cave entrance, confirming both its geophysically determined location and its estimated depth. The application of an advanced geophysical method was therefore proven successful in providing a solution to this specific case in karst exploration and an important cave was saved.ground penetrating radar, speleology, cavity detection, Mt. Kanin massif, S-19 Cave

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Search for an artificially buried karst cave entrance using ground penetrating radar: a successful case of locating the S-19 Cave in the Mt. Kanin massif (NW Slovenia)

Gosar¹,

Čeru²

2016

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“…nasa.gov/~rogers/images/ & The highly regular and exhaustive level of sampling needed for scientific forms of visualization, especially volumetric, is rarely achieved in archaeology (Barceló and Vicente 2004). It is only in a limited number of cases, notably through geophysical surveys (e.g., Gaffney 2008;Losier et al 2007;Leucci and Negri 2006) and some excavations (e.g., McPherron and Dibble 2000) that this type of sampling is ever achieved. While it is possible to use some scientific visualization techniques with excavations that have been recorded using "continuous" 3D coordinates (i.e., not artificial stratigraphy), they often suffer from a lack of mathematical continuity.…”

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Archaeological Visualization: Towards an Archaeological Information Science (AISc)

Llobera

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This paper reviews and evaluates the potential use of modern visualization techniques in archaeology. It suggests the need to apply and develop such techniques as a central part of any modern archaeological investigation. The use of these methods is associated with wider questions about data representations, in particular, their integration with archaeological theory and their role in facilitating analysis and shaping interpretation. Concern for these questions and with the overall potential that information systems provide to capture, represent, analyze, and model archaeological information suggests the need for a new interdisciplinary focus, Archaeological Information Science. For such a focus to prosper, archaeologists need to develop additional skills that go beyond mere technical ones. They need to become more active in the design and creation of future information archaeological systems. To this end, archaeologists are urged to view this task as a way to extend archaeology in new directions and to recognize that the digital representation and treatment of archaeological information can generate new forms of doing archaeology.The following paper has two aims. The first and prime goal is to discuss the potential role that different types of visualization can play in archaeological discovery and discourse. The second goal is to suggest the need for a new archaeological specialty concerned with the use of archaeological information within the context of information systems. Both of these goals are predicated on the ever growing use of information systems in archaeology and the potential new venue these provide to exploit, among other topics, the theory-ladenness of archaeological data.

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“…Today, the use of this method faded away for the less invasive and more efficient geophysical tools such as ground penetrating radar (GPR). Recent years have witnessed an increasing use of GPR in different archaeological applications all over the world [Watters, 2004] [9,[13][14][15][16]. Ground penetrating radar provides high-resolution threedimensional images in reasonable time but at relatively high-cost.…”

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Archaeology and Geophysics: Invincible Couple

Rashed¹

2017

AAOA

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Today, there is almost no new archaeological discovery in which geophysical investigation tools do not play a key role. In fact, looking onto the past century, one could argue that geophysics, in a way, has rescued archaeology and revived it from its old-style techniques involving hard labor and timeconsuming digging and trenching. Today, thanks to geophysics, archaeology utilizes state-of the-art technologies, takes advantage of the most recent data management and processing techniques, and benefits from the latest image processing protocols. However, archaeology is not the only beneficiary from this successful coupling between archaeology and geophysics. Many of the advances in shallow and high-resolution geophysical techniques as well as data processing and interpretation capabilities can be indirectly attributed to the needs, demands and feedbacks of archaeologists. This successful exchange of benefits has resulted in a new scientific term that is commonly used nowadays; that is Archaeogeophysics or Archaeological Geophysics.

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Use of ground penetrating radar to map subsurface archaeological features in an urban area

Cited by 102 publications

References 12 publications

Search for an artificially buried karst cave entrance using ground penetrating radar: a successful case of locating the S-19 Cave in the Mt. Kanin massif (NW Slovenia)

Search for an artificially buried karst cave entrance using ground penetrating radar: a successful case of locating the S-19 Cave in the Mt. Kanin massif (NW Slovenia)

Archaeological Visualization: Towards an Archaeological Information Science (AISc)

Archaeology and Geophysics: Invincible Couple

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