2024-03-29T05:55:33Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1420542018-08-03T11:44:08Zcom_10261_19com_10261_7col_10261_272
Geophysical and Archaeological Evidences of Buried Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman Architecture in West‐Central Syria
Himi, Mahjoub
Armendáriz, Ángel
Teira, Luis
González Urquijo, Jesús E.
Ibáñez-Estévez, Juan José
Haïdar-Boustani, Maya
Casas, Albert
ERT
GPR
Epipaeolithic
Neolithic;
Roman period
Syria
The study area is one of many important archaeological sites located near the city of Homs in Syria. Here, the existence of archaeological remains was studied using two complementary geophysical methods: ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). The results provide evidence of localized buried remains and allowed detailed pre-excavation planning. Furthermore, the later archaeological excavations validated the results obtained from the GPR and ERT surveys. In some areas, the presence of moist clayey soils caused significant attenuation of the radar signal. Conversely, under these circumstances, the contrast in electrical resistivity between natural soil and archaeological targets is enhanced and thus the ERT results identified the archaeological remains.
Many two-dimensional (2D) profiles showed a set of high relative resistivity values depicting well-defined discontinuous structures within the first 2 m of depth. Nevertheless, their geometrical distribution and shape was much more clearly defined in the depth slice maps generated from the three-dimensional (3D) blocks. As a result, data analysis provided a high-resolution image of the subsurface distribution of the electrical resistivity properties of each area surveyed that can easily be interpreted in terms of structures of archaeological interest.
This project was funded by the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage (Spanish Ministry of Culture), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (R&D Projects: BHA2003-09685-CO2-01, HUM2007-66128-C02-01 and HUM2007-66128-C02-02), St Joseph University of Beirut and the regional authorities of Catalonia (through the EXCAVA Programme).
Peer reviewed
2017-01-04T08:12:50Z
2017-01-04T08:12:50Z
2016
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Archaeological Prospection (23/4) : 273–285 (2016)
1075-2196
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/142054
10.1002/arp.1543
1099-0763
en
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arp.1543
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1543/full
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1543/epdf
Sí
none
John Wiley & Sons