Tag: site mapping


  • Ground-penetrating Radar Analysis, Jicaro Beach, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

    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…

  • GPR mapping to reconstruct a Late Classic Period Compound Wall, Chichen Itza, Mexico

    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…