Tag: Lawrence B. Conyers
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Previously I wrote a paper on the mapping of the hominid tracks at Laetoli Site S, which connected the trackway from two excavations conducted in 2016. In the search for other tracks in other grids, I mapped other features that are not footprints, but could be confused with them. This short paper is that analysis,…
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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…
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Many GPR reflection profiles were collected using a canoe on a freshwater lake in the Rocky Mountains. Excellent radar wave penetration was measured, using both 270 and 400 MHz antennas. Reflection traces were placed into space using GPS and individual profiles were interpreted, with the lake bottom and other reflections digitized for three-dimensional mapping. It…
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by Lawrence Conyers and Denisse Argote | Integrating a lidar relief map with GPR subsurface mapping, accompanied by locating known and inferred surface structures allowed for the reconstruction of a Late Classic Period walled compound. It was found that this enclosure is not perfectly rectangular, was partially dismanteled in the past, added on to in…
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Very high frequency ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflection data were collected and processed at Laetoli Site S, to connect an ancient hominid pathway that was uncovered in two excavations conducted in 2016. These footprints have been dated to about 3.6 million years ago and are likely those of Australopithecus afarensis. Profiles were collected 5 cm apart…