Geophysical and archaeological investigations of Baker’s Flat, a nineteenth century historic Irish site in South Australia

Lowe, Kelsey M.; Arthure, Susan; Wallis, Lynley A.; Feinberg, Joshua M.

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Has Anything Changed? The Current Roleof Archaeo-geophysics in Australian Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management

Lowe,

Moffat

2024

One World Archaeology

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In 2012, Australian Archaeology published the paper entitled ‘Review of Geophysical Applications in Australian Archaeology’. The goals of the article were to examine the history of archaeo-geophysics in Australian archaeological research and cultural heritage management (CHM) and consider what factors may have prevented these methods from being utilised in many archaeological investigations to date. It concluded that considerations such as cost, time, instrument availability and lack of theoretical knowledge contributed to the limited uptake of these techniques. This paper also offered suggestions on how geophysical applications were used internationally and whether there was potential for their more extensive use in Australian archaeology. Ten years have passed since this review. Since then, there has been a major increase in the uptake of geophysics in Australian archaeology and CHM. This paper discusses these changes and improvements, and what new opportunities have emerged since 2012. This includes a significant increase in the availability of training in archaeo-geophysics in Australian universities, a deeper engagement with Indigenous communities and the increased availability of equipment.

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Has Anything Changed? The Current Roleof Archaeo-geophysics in Australian Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management

Lowe,

Moffat

2024

One World Archaeology

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Characterization of soil magnetic susceptibility: a review of fundamental concepts, instrumentation, and applications

Shirzaditabar

Heck

2022

Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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The characterization of magnetic susceptibility (MS) has become an accepted technique in soil science. This review examines the concept of volume and mass-specific MS, magnetism, frequency dependence, and thermal behavior of MS, as they pertain to soil material. A comparison is presented of the two types of instrumentation for measuring soil MS, based on magnetic field and electromagnetic induction (EMI). These are discussed with respect to applications including magnetic granulometry, detection of pollutants, identification of organic matter, the delineation of drainage class, paleo-environmental studies, archaeology, as well as soil erosion and degradation. Instruments that use magnetic fields can precisely measure the MS of small amounts of soil, thinly deposited layers or soil exposures, but cannot effectively measure materials at distances ≥10 cm from the sensor. EMI instruments, instead, are capable of quickly measuring apparent MS of a finite volume of the soil, and are utilized in mapping of soil MS in agricultural and archaeological investigations; however, the measured apparent MS values need to be further processed to give the real volume MS values of soil layers/segments. Although both kinds of instruments are widely used in soil science, their measured data are not interchangeable. Future work should be conducted to increase the understanding of the comparability of these instruments to find better utility among soil scientists.

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Geophysical and archaeological investigations of Baker’s Flat, a nineteenth century historic Irish site in South Australia

Cited by 2 publications

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Has Anything Changed? The Current Roleof Archaeo-geophysics in Australian Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management

Has Anything Changed? The Current Roleof Archaeo-geophysics in Australian Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management

Characterization of soil magnetic susceptibility: a review of fundamental concepts, instrumentation, and applications

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