Tag: historical archaeology
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Any comprehensive interpretation of GPR data must include the integration and analysis of both amplitude slice-maps and two-dimensional reflection profiles. Often one method can yield results that the other cannot, producing important insights. One example from Ireland shows how slice-maps produced very useful images of subtle post molds, which outlined a crannog in a pond…
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Aboriginal people in Cape York Peninsula area of Australia have strong emotional attachment to cemeteries and the burial places of their ancestors. Often, as at Mapoon, in northern Queensland, many such places are unmarked and neglected. The graves can be difficult to identify on the ground surface, either because they were never marked, or because…