Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high‐frequency antenna unit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12429583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pavel Ryazantsev (0000-0002-1944-9479, Institute of Geology of the Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences 11 Pushkinskay St Petrozavodsk 185035 Russia, corresponding author), Aleksey Tarasov (Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences 11 Pushkinskay St Petrozavodsk 185035 Russia), Maksim Potakhin (0000-0002-2630-2176, Northern Water Problems Institute of the Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences 50 Alexander Nevsky Av Petrozavodsk 185030 Russia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-355 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Prospection (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-2196 • E-ISSN: 1099-0763 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/arp.1896 |
| OpenAlex | W4319787030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 57 |
We surveyed in detail the Chalcolithic lithic workshop Fofanovo XIII an East Fennoscandian region by ground‐penetrating radar (GPR). A high‐frequency antenna unit was applied to map small‐scale features, mainly waste flakes. To substantiate the efficiency of the GPR technique, we performed a primary analysis of a set of equivalent models in a sandbox. The laboratory‐scale GPR investigation highlights differences in GPR patterns depending on the spatial arrangement of small features and supports the further interpretation of real‐life data. The GPR survey in the field covered 2200 m 2 , revealing areas with a high density of artefacts in the cultural layer and locating individual structural elements of the Fofanovo XIII archaeological site. We suggested using microdebitage samples from manual probing to verify the detected anomalous values of GPR attributes. The results point to a significant correlation between microdebitage and the envelope peak amplitude of the echo signal. Ultimately, our study confirmed the cultural layer in the Fofanovo XIII workshop site to be rich in lithic production wastes, indicating it was a place of mass‐scale production of lithic chopping tools
Antenna (radio) · Archaeology · Cartography · Geography · Geophysical survey · Ground-Penetrating Radar · Lithology · Prehistory · Radar · Remote sensing · Scale (ratio · Engineering · Geophysical Methods and Applications · Rock Mechanics and Modeling · Seismic Waves and Analysis · Geology · Geophysics · Paleontology
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| Citation velocity | recent |
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