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- Title
PROSPECCIÓN CON GPR (GROUND PENETRATING RADAR) EN EL CEMENTERIO DE LA MISIÓN SALESIANA, RÍO GRANDE (TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA).
- Authors
Montes, Alejandro; Salemme, Mónica; Santiago, Fernando; Guichón, Ricardo
- Abstract
This paper describes the geophysical survey through GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) in La Misión Salesiana cemetery, close to Río Grande city (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). It is situated over the Holocene beach reach plain composed with low angle interstratifications of gravel and sand. A 400 MHz antenna of the SIR 3000 model is the tool used for the survey. The main goal is to detect anomalies that allow corroborating the presence, orientation and dimension of the wood coffin found during a previous test pit, associated with burials of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This contribution represents a trial detailing the results obtained during the second season where the surveyed area was previously known from the presence of a burial. These results provide the basis for further exploration tasks in other sectors of the cemetery from which the use of this methodology will reduce the area to dig with traditional archaeological methods.
- Subjects
TIERRA del Fuego (Argentina); ARGENTINA; GEOPHYSICAL surveys; GROUND penetrating radar; GRAVEL; SAND
- Publication
Comechingonia: Revista de Arqueología, 2012, Vol 16, Issue 1, p261
- ISSN
0326-7911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37603/2250.7728.v16.n1.17976