Interpreting the South Flats Earthwork (20MU2): Insights Gained from Geophysical Surveys

Gaff, Donald H.; Sherrod, Laura; Brashler, Janet

doi:10.7245/0026-2005-41.3.261

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“…Recent work by Howey (2012; see also Howey & O'Shea 2006;Milner & O'Shea 1998) in northern Lower Michigan asserts that some enclosures in this locale functioned as interstitial 'safe zones' where inland foragers could conduct trade and carry out ceremonies with coastal fisher-horticulturalists. Other research conducted by Gaff and Brashler (2011; see also Gaff et al 2013) at the South Flats Earthwork (site code 20MU2) in Muskegon County, Michigan, suggests the modest semicircular enclosure here served similar purposes. Importantly, however, they note that Late Woodland earthworks in the region likely filled many roles, and that each was a product of locally specific historical and cultural contingencies.…”

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Counter-monuments and the Perdurance of Place

Watts¹

2018

CAJ

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In this paper, I critically examine contemporary commemorative forms and practices known as ‘counter-monuments’ from an archaeological standpoint, in the process interrogating the conceptual underpinnings of the monument taxon as it is currently understood. Drawing on Tim Ingold's notion of perdurance, and through an exploration of counter-monumental concerns with form, siting and proxemics, I argue that memorialization can be seen as relationally emergent in the experiences of particular places. This claim is advanced through a discussion of the Cedar Creek Earthworks, a Woodland Period (c. 1–1550 ad) enclosure near Windsor, Canada, whose status as a monument can be understood, not as an ostentatious appeal to past events, but as a magnet for drawing out and assembling human and non-human relations in place.

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Counter-monuments and the Perdurance of Place

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2018

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Case Histories of GPR for Animal Burrows Mapping and Geometry

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Simpson

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Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has a wide range of applications, from geologic mapping to concrete inspection. A recently emerging GPR application is deployment in biological investigations as a non-invasive technique. Geophysical mapping of features such as tree roots and turtle burrows has proved valuable for the understanding of these subsurface systems for ecological, environmental, or engineering purposes. Four case histories of GPR investigations pertaining to animal burrows are described: cutter ants in Brazil, groundhogs in Michigan, and groundhogs, and burrowing bees in Pennsylvania. Cutter ants ( Atta spp.) in Amazonian Brazil are known to construct burrows of nearly the same dimensions as groundhogs as they excavate galleries up to 7 m deep for leaf storage. Cutter ant burrows are hazardous to heavy equipment and may also cause loss of mud circulation during rotary drilling. Groundhogs ( Marmota monax), found throughout the United States, cause unseen hazards, particularly for equestrian facilities where a sudden collapse can cause severe injuries to both horse and rider. Burrowing bees ( Colletes inaequalis) are common in the northeastern United States. The size of the bee burrows is significantly smaller than that of the cutter ants and the groundhogs. The data for these surveys were collected over a twenty-year span, crossing several generations of survey equipment and processing techniques. Together, these four case histories highlight the historic and current capabilities of GPR systems applied to mapping subsurface burrow systems. These examples demonstrate the important impact near surface heterogeneities have in altering ecological, environmental, or engineering systems and the utility of GPR for mapping such heterogeneities.

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Interpreting the South Flats Earthwork (20MU2): Insights Gained from Geophysical Surveys

Cited by 2 publications

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Counter-monuments and the Perdurance of Place

Counter-monuments and the Perdurance of Place

Case Histories of GPR for Animal Burrows Mapping and Geometry

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