Revealing the Buried Past: Geophysics for Archaeologists

Thanks to ever-more sophisticated technology archaeologists can identify much that is beneath the soil without having to excavate. From Pitt-Rivers banging the surface of the ground with a pick in the late nineteenth century, through Atkinson''s revolutionary use of the ''Megger-Earth Tester'', to modern-day radar survey, the value of geophysical techniques is lucidly explained with many real-life case studies.

• | Author: Chris Gaffney, John Gater
• | Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780752425566
• | ISBN-10: 0752425560