16th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection
ArchéoSciences
2025/1 n° 49-1
630 pages
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Table of contents
1. Multimethod archaeological site prospection
Is it possible to produce a 3D stratigraphic interpretation without digging using Archaeogeophysics? The revisited case of the ancient rural settlement of Plantades in Salviac (Lot, France)
Integral archaeometric study in the San Juan river neighborhood of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
Beidaud, the first Roman rural site in Moesia Inferior fully mapped using geophysics
Medieval fortified sites of south-eastern Greater Poland: insights from recent non-invasive research
Tangled in linear anomalies: “Roman villa” at the National Trust’s Beningbrough Hall washed down the drain?
Geoarchaeological study of the medieval mound of Nids: a geophysical and geotechnical contribution
Geophysical Surveys at Petra World Heritage Site
- By Richard Bates,
- Mike Langton
- and Andreas Viberg
Integrating non-invasive research methods in the study of the Late Bronze Age ashmounds from NE Romania
Two Early-Medieval central-plan churches in Bavaria and Georgia in the focus of archaeological prospection
Coring into the heart of Bruges: The archaeological research of the Eekhoutabbey (2023)
Comparison of geophysical methods applied in the study of abandoned inner rampart fortification at prehistoric and early medieval hillfort Stará Kouřim (CZ)
- By Roman Křivánek
- and Eliška Vošvrdová
Combined ground-penetrating radar and magnetic surveys on the Gallo-Roman settlement of Saint-Brandan (France)
A multidisciplinary approach to the urban history of Ostia (Italy): the Early Ostia Revisited project
Investigations into the Forma Urbis of the Roman city of Aquinum (Lazio, Italy): integrating non-invasive prospection methods and excavations
Understanding the Anomaly: geophysical survey on the arena of the Roman amphitheatre of Porolissum
Urbes Revelantur. New Remote and Proximal Sensing investigations in the abandoned city of Suasa (Marche, Italy)
Geophysical mapping of coastal and shallow submerged Bronze Age settlements: The case of Palaikastro, Eastern Crete Greece
Footprints of a sunken city – The geophysical signals of Rungholt (Wadden Sea, Germany)
Pushing too far? Use of 5 non-destructive methods for studying Roman towns: example of Elusa (Eauze, France)
Comparison of multi-channel and single channel georadar in a Scandinavian context of megalithic structures from the Late Iron Age
Micro-scale prospection. A computed tomography examination of the urn fills of Lusatian Urnfield culture from SW Poland
Geoarchaeology of Ostia: multi-indicators study of the urban deposits from the western district of the Roman city
Magnetic, Electromagnetic Induction and Photogrammetry for Zol-i Zard (Tajikistan) exploration
Geophysical prospection as a tool for the study of urbanism at the La Téne oppidum Bibracte
Magnetic survey of Māori stone row systems in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- By Kate Welham,
- Andy Brown
- and Josie Hagan
Supplementary results from EMI survey in archaeo-geophysical investigation of the defensive system from a Napoleonic War
- By Igor Murin
Revealing the urban network in sections of the archaeological site in Delos Island employing an integrated geophysical approach
Non-destructive geophysical surveys of sacral architecture: Case study from the Basilica of St. Wenceslas in Stará Boleslav, Czech Republic
Magnetic and GPR surveys in Metsamor, Argištiḫinili and Zvartnost on the Ararat Plain, Armenia
Multi-Method non-invasive investigation of the Pefkakia/Demetrias site (Thessaly, Greece)
Incorporating geophysics into excavations: Lessons from 5 years at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs (France, Burgundy)
Multimethod archaeological prospection of the abbey church of Ter Doest (Lissewege, Bruges, Belgium)
Surveying the Silk Road: Geophysical investigation of the underground structures in the city of Uzgen
Multimethod Geophysical Prospection at the Sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios near Sparta, Southern Peloponnese (Greece)
Unveiling Vetera castra: First Evidence of Urban Structures at the Gates of Vetera castra through Multi-Method Archaeological Prospection
Building context from different sources: a multimethod approach for assessing the Late Hallstatt hillfort settlements from southwestern Romania
Surveying slave quarters within Martinique’s colonial plantations: ongoing research into the historical memory of a postcolonial territory
Geophysical methods, unmarked graves and the effects of seasonal rainfall on their detection
- By Andrew Frost
Cross analysis of good GPR data with archaeological excavation: case study of Sceaux-du-Gâtinais
Combining Magnetics and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for the Investigation of Cooking Pits in Schwissel, Germany
New approach of the Motte du Ciar monumental complex (Sens, France) through aerial images LiDAR and geophysics
Lights and Shadows on interpreting Archaeological Geophysics using historic cartography
Prospecting in the southwestern Amazon forest (Bolivia): Magnetometry near the geomagnetic Equator
A Comparative Study of Geophysical Survey Techniques for archaeological site assessment: Magnetometry and Ground Penetrating Radar in the Po Valley
Integrating Geophysical Prospection and 3D Surface Documentation of the Former Währinger Allgemeiner Friedhof, Vienna
Forest Archaeogeophysics : An Integrated Geophysical Approach to Prehistoric Landscape Reconstruction in Forested Areas – A Case Study from Schaltenrein (NW Switzerland)
- By Igor Medarić
Visualising the invisible – Archaeogeophysical research at manor houses in the Baltic Sea Region
Documenting different building phases of a medieval chapel through GPR and image-based modelling
Mapping Cucuteni Pottery Networks: Insights into Production and Distribution Systems in Prehistoric NE Romania through Magnetometer Surveys and Interdisciplinary Analysis
Application of geophysical methods in survey of early medieval fortified settlements in Central Europe
- By Peter Milo,
- Jan Havelka,
- Dávid Šálka
- and Tomáš Tencer
LARSA (IRAQ, 6th – 1st millennium BC): Discovering the city wall and its gates
- By Lionel Darras
- and Régis Vallet
Geophysical and Archaeological Survey at the Early Islamic city of Qurh (al-Ula, NW Arabia) A Combined Approach
- By Ulrike Siegel
- and Robert Kell
Multidisciplinary Geophysical Prospection in the Archaeological Site of Abdera, Greece
A Multi-Methodological Approach to Archaeological Survey in the Central Bekaa, Lebanon
Dimensional Ontology as a Foundation for Methodology of Integrated Non-Invasive Archaeological Surveys
FDEM and GPR prospections at the Roman town of Ostia within the Early Ostia Revisited project
RLPI Geophysical Studies 2010 – 2013: Lessons Learned?
- By Kayt Armstrong
- and Martijn van Leusen
2. Environmental studies and (palaeo-)landscape mapping
From anomaly to landscape – a multi-method approach for archaeological landscape models
Unravelling a Neanderthal landscape rich in bifacial tools at Esbeek-Diessen, the Netherlands
Down the river: The results of the Danube Limes survey in the area from Vukovar to Ilok (Eastern Croatia)
Resistivity & induced polarization survey at Poverty Point World Heritage Sit Site
- By Jimmy Adcock,
- Diana Greenlee
- and Rinita A Dalan
Advancing Underwater Archaeological Prospection in Austrian Lakes
- By Stefan Krojer,
- Henrik Pohl
- and Immo Trinks
Applying OSL profiling and dating on sediment cores to reconstruct landscape changes: pitfalls and strengths
Environmental Context in Preventative Archaeology: the Alna River Project, Oslo, Norway
- By Rebecca J S Cannell,
- C. Rob
- and Line Hovd
Early Mesolithic wetland sites at Ancient Lake Duvensee: geophysical prospection from landscape to excavation scale
Sediment talks, or: what interdisciplinary archaeological prospection of the Kreuttal microregion’s sediment archive can tell us about the landscape history
Repeated multispectral surveys using UAS for the detection of archaeology in the American Midwest
Large-scale electromagnetic surveys at the « Port Autonome » of Dunkirk: Geophysics in the hands of archaeologists
Unveiling the Monti Lucretili terraced landscape: reconstructing historical land management through an interdisciplinary approach
From field data to model: integration of onshore and offshore research to create a Digital Terrain Model of the Belgian coast around 6 ka BP for geoarchaeological research
PastCoast – Using Ground Penetrating Radar data for high resolution chronological investigations of landscape change
3. Soils and geochemistry
Geophysical insights into soil preservation and Neolithic settlement in Kuyavia’s glacial till landscapes (Poland)
How soil and sediment magnetism contribute to the understanding of archaeological magnetometry data
MesoMag: Geophysical Prospection for Mesolithic Land Use in Challenging Soil Environments
Unveiling magnetic susceptibility as a proxy in Archaeology: limits for discrimination of magnetic contributions
- By H. Grison,
- Š. Stejskalová
- and S. Spassov
4. New methods and innovations in field prospection
Geophysics and Archaeological Experimentation: evolution of the magnetic properties of a glassmaker’s furnace
Development and Initial Field Applications of the AutoMIRA System for semi-autonomous Large-Scale Geophysical Surveys
Discovery of a Romanesque church below Saint Paul’s cathedral (Liège-Belgium) using CCR and GPR data
High resolution time lapse 3D ERT aiming for moisture detection on pillars of standing monuments: A case study in Thessaloniki’s Rotunda, Greece
High-Resolution GPR Survey for Archaeological Mapping in Forested Environments: A Case Study from Gryet, Bornholm
Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) measurements in the walls of the Rotunda monument
Integrating Stratigraphic Historical Map Analysis and Geophysical Prospection to study Deserted Medieval Landscapes
Shallow Marine FD – EMI Geophysical Prospection: A multi-instrument archaeological experiment in Stomio, Crete, Greece
In-situ experimentation of ZheoPS-RTK, a low-tech microtopography acquisition system in underground environment
Integration of magnetometry, photogrammetry, and 3D environment visualisation at La Celadilla (Ademuz, Valencia)
Possibilities and limitations of the field magnetic susceptibility measurements by Multi-kappa instrument in comparison with magnetometer prospection
Demining-purposed UAV magnetometry and archaeological heritage management. Ukrainian case
Portable Hyperspectral Imaging (pHI) for the enhanced recording of archaeological features and deposits
5. Data processing and geospatial analysis
Frequency dependent and variable vertical integration of GPR time slices
- By Neil Linford
High resolution lidar mapping of Belgian historical forests reveals unique pre-historic and Roman landscape features
What is Visible to Whom in Geophysical Data? A Psychological Study on the Analysis of Magnetic Maps from Soba (Sudan)
The role of topographic migration in 3D GPR data processing for detecting shallow archaeological targets: A case study
- By Philipp Koyan
- and Jens Tronicke
It’s In the Name: From Place Name Clues to Geophysical Inversion
- By Armin Schmidt
- and Julian Gröber
6. Automated data interpretation and classification
Advances in remote sensing for archaeological prospection: AI-based computational analyses and big datasets
AI in the fields: Challenges and insights in detecting agrarian footprints from Satellite and LiDAR data
DipoleXtrctR – a (semi-)automated workflow for the extraction of dipoles from magnetograms
3D Semantic segmentation of GPR data by means of shallow machine learning
- By Lieven Verdonck,
- Michel Dabas
- and Marc Bui
7. Archaeological resource management & societal valorisation
On-site and understood? Evaluating meaning in the interpretation of geophysical data at Fountains Abbey
The Archaeological Prospection of Plankhouse Villages on the Northwest Coast of North America
The data in-between: Ancillary data derived from remote sensing surveys in cemeteries, a case study from Coastal Virginia (United States)
Discovery of a Late Roman city in Ulpiana-Iustiniana Secunda in Kosovo, by simultaneous acquisition and interpretation of GPR, ARP, and archaeological data
With your permission? Legal restrictions on metal detecting and their implications for archaeogeophysical surveys in Germany
- By Joris Coolen
A Sample Case for Geophysical Meta data Archival: The Subsurface Remains of a villa rustica in the Roman Rhineland
Mapping the “dark heritage” of the 20th century – geophysical survey of concentration and prison camps in Bohemia
Retraction and Reflection: The Gunung Padang Controversy and the Challenges of Peer Review in Archaeological Prospection
Rediscovering the Calvary Chapel near Blankenheim, Rhineland, Germany
- By Leo Klinke
- and Lisa Calenborn
Geophysical prospection for development-led archaeology. The section 3 of Sibiu-Pitești highway, Romania
Before and after the dig. A middle Adriatic long-standing necropolis between non-invasive prospecting and excavation
Publication date: 08/26/2025
Uploaded: 10/28/2025
ISBN 9791041308224