Abstract
Multi-sensor prospecting is a fast-emerging paradigm in archaeological geophysics. Given suitable ground conditions for navigation, sensor arrays drastically increase efficiency in data collection. In particular, geomagnetic prospecting benefits from this development. Despite these advancements, data processing still lacks a best-practice approach. Conventional processing methods developed for gridded data has been challenged by sensor arrays “roaming” in the landscape. In realization of the issue, the Innovative Geophysical Approaches for the Study of Early Agricultural Villages of Neolithic Thessaly (IGEAN) Project explored various innovative techniques for the betterment of the multi-sensor geomagnetic data processing. As a result, a modular pipeline is produced with minimal user intervention. In addition to standard steps, such as data clipping, various other algorithms have been introduced. This pipeline is tested over 20 Neolithic settlements in Thessaly, Greece, three of which are presented here in detail. The proposed workflow provides drastic improvements over raw data. As a result of these improvements, the IGEAN project revealed astonishing details on architectural elements, settlement enclosures, and paleolandscapes, changing completely the existing perspective of the Neolithic habitation in Thessaly.
Highlights
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Summary
The Neolithic period in Europe was a key epoch. Migrant groups gave way to permanent agrarian societies occupied with animal husbandry and the cultivation of food-crops for sustenance.Conceptualization of the Neolithic surroundings became viable for the first time in durable architectural forms. The Neolithic period in Europe was a key epoch. Migrant groups gave way to permanent agrarian societies occupied with animal husbandry and the cultivation of food-crops for sustenance. Conceptualization of the Neolithic surroundings became viable for the first time in durable architectural forms. (Central Greece) is of critical importance in this transformation serving as the gate to what would become the widespread Neolithization of Europe, which irreversibly altered the course of human history [1]. The high density of Neolithic activity and mounded settlements (locally called magoules; magoula (sng.)), the early date of occupation, and the multiple trajectories that it followed make Thessaly a crucial region for exploring and comprehending the pathways in which Neolithic culture emerged and progressed in the European continent (Figure 1).
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