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Trials of the Elsec Proton Magnetometer at Two Sites on Wetherill Mesa1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Richard B. Johnston*
Affiliation:
Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, Missouri

Abstract

The magnetic results obtained in teste at two sites did not indicate the location of buried archaeological features and suggest that magnetometry is not suited to sites of the type found on Wetherill Mesa.

Type
4 Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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Footnotes

1

This is Contribution No. 8 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.

References

Johnston, Richard B. 1964 Proton Magnetometry and Its Application to Archaeology: An Evaluation at Angel Site. Prehistory Research Series, Vol. 4, No. 2. Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.Google Scholar