ABSTRACT
Scientific soil prospecting methods can give dramatic pictures of buried archaeological sites, and sometimes information on what occurred within them, before any earth has ben removed. Dr Clark, who was one of the earliest to work in this field, has written the first general survey of an increasingly important area of practical archaeology.
The emphasis is on the principles and practical application of the well established techniques of resistivity, magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility, with shorter sections on emerging and less common techniques such as ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic methods and phosphate survey.
This paperback edition updates and enhances the earlier book, adding new material such as the large-scale evaluation exercises now required as a precondition of planning consent for major developments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
The development of archaeological prospecting
chapter 2|10 pages
Resistivity
chapter |11 pages
Electrode configurations
chapter |16 pages
Climatic effects and the nature of
chapter |10 pages
Magnetic anomalies: shapes and forms
chapter |7 pages
Geology and magnetometer surveys
chapter 5|5 pages
Other Methods
part |1 pages
Dowsing
chapter 6|8 pages
Choice of method: choice of site
part |2 pages
Contour or isograph plots
chapter |4 pages
Dot density
chapter |3 pages
Grey-scale plots
chapter |8 pages
Filtering and smoothing
chapter 8|3 pages
Survey logistics
chapter |4 pages
Survey procedures
chapter |6 pages
References
part 5|1 pages
–Other methods Ground penetrating radar