Archaeological prospection in southeastern Pará state, Brazil using geophysical methods: a case study of síitio domingos
Magnetic, resistivity and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) methods were applied to Sítio Domingos, a Brazilian archaeological site located in Pará State, to find objects buried by an ancient civilization that may have inhabited the site. Archaeological excavations based on the locations of magnetic an...
| Autor principal: | Luiz, José Gouvêa |
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| Outros Autores: | Pereira, Edithe da Silva |
| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
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Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
2018
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http://repositorio.museu-goeldi.br/handle/mgoeldi/1332 |
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Magnetic, resistivity and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) methods were applied to Sítio Domingos, a Brazilian archaeological site located in Pará State, to find objects buried by an ancient civilization that may have inhabited the site. Archaeological excavations based on the locations of magnetic anomalies reveal
a concentration of ceramic fragments and pots. The correlation between the resistivity models and the soil profile of the study area suggests that the resistivity range of 2000 to 2500 ohm-m represents the archaeological occupation layer. Several anomalous features detected by GPR are correlated with magnetic anomalies. However, when these features are analyzed independently of the magnetic anomalies, they do not conclusively represent the objects being searched. Therefore, GPR is not
recommended as the main tool for archaeological prospection in the study area. |