Current Advances in the Uses of pXRF, LA-ICPMS, PIMA/UV and pXRF Soil and Plant Geochemistry to find and map deeply buried human and animal remains from Conflict and Massacre Sites.
Abstract
Over the past 10 years, there have been MAJOR advances in the integrated use(s) of portable instruments for field and laboratory studies of prehistoric and historic era archaeological sites. The continuing use of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF), Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectroscopy (LA ICP-MS), RAMAN and various IR and UV techniques to find and map deeply buried sites has exploded on an International scale. Brief descriptions of the origin, evolution, potential and current development of these instrumental techniques in tandem with soil and plant archaeogeochemical surveys in the context of Combined Survey Format (CSF) surveys for finding deeply-buried human and animal remains from conflict and massacre sites will be presented along with examples of current studies of uses of these technologies for rock art studies.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMNS41A..13L
- Keywords:
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- 0915 Downhole methods;
- EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS;
- 0925 Magnetic and electrical methods;
- EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS;
- 0935 Seismic methods;
- EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS;
- 0205 Archaeological geology;
- GEOHEALTH