Ground-penetrating Radar at the Maya Site of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala

Valdés, Juan Antonio; Kaplan, Jonathan

doi:10.1179/jfa.2000.27.3.329

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“…Understanding the local geology is important for interpreting the results of a GPR survey. Although GPR has proven useful in a variety of archaeological contexts and settings (e.g., Gracia et al, ; Valdes & Kaplan, ; Cezar et al, ), there are several environmental and technological factors that contribute to the degree to which various features can be detected within the subsurface. Most constraints concern the nature of the local survey area.…”

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Using Ground‐Penetrating Radar to Examine Spatial Organization at the Late Classic Maya Site of El Baúl, Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala

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The Cotzumalhuapa Nuclear Zone (CNZ) is a Late Classic site consisting of three large architectural compounds linked by a series of stone‐paved causeways and bridges. The majority of the site, however, lies beneath layers of recent tephra, leaving the structure of this settlement largely unknown. This study uses ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) to map the subsurface near El Baúl, one of the main compounds, in order to examine the spatial relationship among urban architectural features. Excavation within areas of the GPR survey provides fine‐grain detail of one major architectural feature in the region, the Gavarrete Causeway. The complimentary nature of these data sets characterizes the architectural organization of the settlement at two scales. Spatial patterning between large‐scale architectural features supports the hypothesis that the CNZ represents an integrated urban center with evidence of planned community organization characteristic of other Late Classic period centers across Mesoamerica.

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Using Ground‐Penetrating Radar to Examine Spatial Organization at the Late Classic Maya Site of El Baúl, Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala

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“…En Mesoamérica, la búsqueda de monumentos de basalto por magnetometría en el sitio olmeca de San Lorenzo (Breiner y Coe, 1972) fue uno de los primeros usos de esta clase de técnica. Más recien temente el georradar ha proporcionado resultados útiles en una variedad de contextos (Valdés y Kaplan, 2000;Safi et al, 2012), siendo una de sus ventajas que proporciona evidencia de las características del subsuelo en distintas pro fundidades.…”

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Identificando áreas de actividad a través del uso de GPR en la costa del Soconusco

Castillo

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2020

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This article is focused on the importance of remote sensing techniques for archaeological studies, specifically LiDAR, and geophysics techniques, such as ground penetrating radar (GPR). The use of LiDAR has become popular in the last ten years and its use in forested places has been very effective despite the low visibility. In the case of GPR, it is generally used in those places where evidence of structure remains can be found. However, in the sites identified by the Project Costa del Soconusco there are no buildings with these characteristics, but their usefulness for the identification of areas of ceramic production have been decisive for the development of our study. These techniques have provided important data that has allowed us to know more about the settlements located in the eastern region of Soconusco.

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Fluvial, Alluvial Fan, and Floodplain Environments

Conyers¹

2016

Ground‐Penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology

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Ground-penetrating Radar at the Maya Site of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala

Cited by 3 publications

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Using Ground‐Penetrating Radar to Examine Spatial Organization at the Late Classic Maya Site of El Baúl, Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala

Using Ground‐Penetrating Radar to Examine Spatial Organization at the Late Classic Maya Site of El Baúl, Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala

Identificando áreas de actividad a través del uso de GPR en la costa del Soconusco

Fluvial, Alluvial Fan, and Floodplain Environments

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