Ground penetrating radar exploration at archaeological site in Shi Village, Xia County, Shanxi Province

Abstract

With the rapid development of city construction, it’s necessary to make archaeological exploration process more convenient, efficient and undamaged. As a result, some geophysical methods begin to be used firstly to find anomaly roughly during exploration. Ground penetrating radar (GPR), as a non-destructive and high-resolution method, should be an effective method in relatively shallow archaeological exploration. To verify the effectiveness of GPR, this paper mainly discusses the application of a combining method of GPR and Luoyang Spade – a traditional archaeological method at pre-Qin period site in Shi Village, Xia County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, used GPR to find the anomaly area, then used Luoyang Spade to excavate to verify. This method can greatly shorten exploration time and reduce damage of culture relics.