Tag: Holocene sediments
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Four sites with standing pillars, often in clusters or circles, which are estimated to be 8,000 years old, were constructed on the margin of a large freshwater lake in northern Kenya in the early Pliocene. Limited excavations of one of them showed abundant human remains associated with these monuments. GPR surveys were carried out within…
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The ephemeral remains of buildings in a Late Period Costa Rican village proved challenging for GPR mapping because little remained but foundation stones and compacted earth floors. Those features had been disturpted over the last 800-900 years by erosion, flood deposits, root action and slumping of the ground. Standard amplitude mapping proved to be beneficial…