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A ground-radar view of Japanese burial mounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dean Goodman  and
Yasushi Nishimura
Dean Goodman
Affiliation:
Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Miami Japan Division, Otsubu 39-1, Nakajima Machi, Ishikawa Ken, 929-22, Japan
Yasushi Nishimura
Affiliation:
Archaeological Operations, Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute 9-1, 2 chome Nijocho, Nara-shi 630, Japan
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Abstract

Ground radar investigates shallow archaeological features in burial mounds of the Kofun Period (300-700 AD) in Japan. A variety of analytical methods – time slices, synthetic radargrams simulated from model structures, and 3-D depth constructions – are used to interpret the profiles, to reveal the location, depth and shapes of buried features.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 255 , June 1993 , pp. 349 - 354
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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