Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high‐frequency antenna unit
Abstract 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...
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crwiley:10.1002/arp.1896 2024-06-02T08:06:32+00:00 Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high‐frequency antenna unit Ryazantsev, Pavel Tarasov, Aleksey Potakhin, Maksim 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arp.1896 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.1896 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/arp.1896 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Archaeological Prospection volume 30, issue 3, page 341-355 ISSN 1075-2196 1099-0763 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1896 2024-05-03T12:00:17Z Abstract 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandian Wiley Online Library Archaeological Prospection 30 3 341 355 |
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Abstract 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. |
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Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high‐frequency antenna unit |
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