The Use of Remote Sensing, Geophysical Methods and Soil Analysis in the Study of Sites Disturbed by Agricultural Activity
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This study is based on an interdisciplinary approach to the prospection of archaeological sites impacted by modern agricultural plowing activity. We applied remote sensing, combined with geophysical, geochemical, and archaeological methods at Kushmanskoye III — a medieval Finno-Ugric site in the Cheptsa River basin, northern Udmurtia (9th–13th centuries AD). As a result of many years of plowing, the site cannot be visually demarcated, and visual traces of its extent have been obliterated. Scientifi c methods included aerial photography from unmanned vehicles (visual range, thermal, and multispectral imaging), geophysical techniques (resistivity and magnetometry surveys, ground penetrating radar, and electrical resistivity tomography), and soil studies (grain size composition, micromorphology, and chemical and biological analyses of soil cores). As a result, we effectively traced the boundaries of the site and of its “household periphery”, delineating areas with various degrees of disruption. Our research identifi ed two lines of defensive constructions, previously invisible on the surface. Our fi ndings have enabled us to initiate revision of the site’s status in the register of state-protected archaeological resources. The location of geophysical anomalies, caused by buried features, reveals a regularized row layout to the site. The results are supported by those of archaeological surveys
Aerial photography · Archaeology · Electrical resistivity and conductivity · Electrical Resistivity Tomography · Geoarchaeology · Geography · Ground-Penetrating Radar · Multispectral image · Plough · Prospection · Radar · Remote sensing · Seismic refraction · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Geology · Geophysics
Reconstruction of the occupation layer of archaeological sites based on statistical analysis of soil materials
A reconstruction of the occupation layer of archaeological sites according to a statistical analysis of multispectral imaging
Unfortified Settlements of the Cheptsa Culture (9th–13th Centuries)
Occupation Layer at the Kushman Cluster of Sites (9th–13th Centuries) According to Multispectral Imaging Data
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
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