Archaeological Prospection

Abstract

A number of different geophysical and geochemical methods have been evalu-ated in order to adapt them to archaeological prospecting. The purpose was to find an optimal combination of a few methods for interactive prospecting to obtainmaximal information from the upperlayers of the soil. After a lot of measurements and excavations on different soils a concept of interactive archaeological prospecting is recommended. Electromagnetic mapping with a one-meter slingram, phosphate mapping with a combination of field and laboratory analysis and electromagnetic profiling with ground penetrating radar have proved to give the information needed for a good excavation result.