A possible archaeological site in the Three Gorge Area of China: a new method applied to the processing and interpretation of magnetic data
✍ Scribed by Yun Wang; Miaoyue Wang; Yafen Yan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1075-2196
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✦ Synopsis
Locating the possible archaeological site quickly and accurately became very important in the Three Gorge area of China after the Three Gorge Project (TGP) started. The Chu Culture is a very important part of Chinese civilization, which originated in the middle of the Three Gorge area. A historic book records that there are six large and old graves in this area. Location of these graves will help increase our knowledge about the Chu Culture. A magnetic survey was therefore used at Hetu Hill, and a triangular shaped anomaly was found. We could not determine whether this anomaly was an interesting body because of some near-surface and surface noise. In this paper, we introduce a new automatic method, pattern recognition (cluster analysis), to process and interpret the magnetic data. In this way, a possible interesting anomaly was recognized, which will be proved by excavation later in the year. *