A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Anthropogenic Features and Urban Environments
Humans can be very active agents of deposition and modifiers of landscapes and therefore anthropogenic strata must be studied in a geoarchaeological context with GPR using the same techniques as other depositional environments. Shell mounds that were modified and expanded over time, producing complex layered environments can be studied using GPR profile analysis, showing depositional layers of shells as well as interbedded floors and other constructed surfaces. Natural landscapes that were filled with construction rubble to flatten surfaces for the construction of monumental architecture are visible in profiles and amplitude maps. Buried living surfaces, fill material, and new living surfaces stacked in complex stratigraphic packages can all be seen in GPR images. Where architectural features have been eroded and redeposited, the complexity of radar reflections from intact and secondary units can be difficult to differentiate, but when the origins of reflections is understood, the GPR images make a great deal of interpretive sense. In urban environments many layers of construction, renovation, and fill can be identified, and areas where archaeological materials remain undisturbed can be mapped.
Anthropogenic Features and Urban Environments
Humans can be very active agents of deposition and modifiers of landscapes and therefore anthropogenic strata must be studied in a geoarchaeological context with GPR using the same techniques as other depositional environments. Shell mounds that were modified and expanded over time, producing complex layered environments can be studied using GPR profile analysis, showing depositional layers of shells as well as interbedded floors and other constructed surfaces. Natural landscapes that were filled with construction rubble to flatten surfaces for the construction of monumental architecture are visible in profiles and amplitude maps. Buried living surfaces, fill material, and new living surfaces stacked in complex stratigraphic packages can all be seen in GPR images. Where architectural features have been eroded and redeposited, the complexity of radar reflections from intact and secondary units can be difficult to differentiate, but when the origins of reflections is understood, the GPR images make a great deal of interpretive sense. In urban environments many layers of construction, renovation, and fill can be identified, and areas where archaeological materials remain undisturbed can be mapped.
Anthropogenic Features and Urban Environments
Conyers, Lawrence B. (author)
2016-01-04
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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