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Geophysical surveys of stratigraphically complex Island California sites: new implications for household archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jeanne E. Arnold ,
Elizabeth L. Ambos  and
Daniel O. Larson
Jeanne E. Arnold
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA
Elizabeth L. Ambos
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach CA 90840, USA
Daniel O. Larson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach CA 90840, USA
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Ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical techniques are known to produce useful data when deposits are crisply structured, as in the case of sub-surface masonry walls or large ditches. New studies of Californian coastal sites find the methods are effective in tracing the less sharp distinctions that define clay and sand house floors within these large and dense hunter-gatherer middens.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 157 - 168
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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