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Archaeology Without Digging - Connecticut History Uncovered by Ground-Penetrating Radar (Paperback)
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Archaeology Without Digging - Connecticut History Uncovered by Ground-Penetrating Radar (Paperback)
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Over the last 30 years, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology
and the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation
Service have entered into a partnership employing
ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to the study of the state’s
archaeology and history. As a result, many historical cemeteries
and places of note in Connecticut have been investigated. The
authors have selected 10 geophysical surveys, which have used GPR
as a non-intrusive, non-destructive exploratory tool, that have
elicited positive results in the search for unmarked burials,
confirmation of marked burials and to authenticate areas of known
historical events. This book narrates the stories of GPR studies at
10 historical sites in Connecticut, spanning the 17th to the 20th
centuries. Each chapter investigates and highlights a ‘history
mystery’ and differing aspects of our research, including the
‘lost’ grave of an African-American Revolutionary War veteran,
the verification of French Revolutionary War military personnel in
a mass grave, the detection of a below-ground hidden 19th-century
family burial tomb, the discovery of hurriedly dug, unmarked
burials associated with the 1918 influenza pandemic and the
detection of the unknown location of a 1941 military plane crash
site, among others. Professionally, the authors have over 40
years’ experience in GPR, soil science and archaeology. They
bring their collective expertise to the reader in a scientific
approach with a personal, story-telling touch. Each chapter delves
into the history of the sites and the nature of the geophysical
search (i.e., how the equipment was used) and the interpretation of
the data in regard to solving a historical problem.
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