GPR for Archaeology

Collecting, processing and interpreting ground-penetrating radar (GPR)

Recent Article Downloads

Here are my most recent articles and book chapters. To download the .pdf files:
JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer reviewed):
  • 2022 Ground-penetrating Radar.  In GPR conyers_2022 ; Ed. Allan S. Gilbert.  Springer Reference Series, Heidelberg, New York, London.
  • 2020 Karst features interpretation using ground-penetrating radar: A case study from the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: Authors in order: Lucía Bermejo, Ana Isabel Ortega, Josep M. Parés, Isidoro Campaña, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Bermejo et al. 2020-Karst features interpretation using GPR in Atapuerca Geomorphology 367 (2020) 107311
  • 2019 Creating and renewing identity and value through the use of non-invasive archaeological methods: Mapoon unmarked graves, potential burial mounds and cemeteries project, western Cape York peninsula, Queensland with Mary-Jean Sutton, Simon Pearce, Emma St. Pierre and Diane Nicholls Pitt.Sutton_Conyers_Pearce_St Pierre_Nicholls_AO16624496 Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 00 (2019): 1–11.  DOI: 10.1002/arco.5205
  • 2019: St. Pierre, Emma, Lawrence B. Conyers, Mary-Jean Sutton, Peter Mitchell, Chester Walker and Dianne Nicholls 2019. Reimaging life and death:   Results and interpretation of geophysical and ethnohistorical investigations of earth mounds, Mapoon, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Archaeology in Oceania v. 00, pp 1-17. doi.org/10.1002/arco.5179 AO Paper
  •   2019: with Mary-Jean Sutton and Emma St Pierre, E. Dissecting and Interpreting a Three-Dimensional Ground-Penetrating Radar Dataset: An Example from Northern Australia. Sensors, 19(5), pp. 12-39. doi.org/10.3390/s19051239   conyers_et_al_sensors-3_12_19
  • 2018 with Emma St. Pierre, Mary-Jean Sutton and Chester Walker. Integration of GPR and magnetics to study the interior features and history of earth mounds, Mapoon, Queensland, Australia. Archaeological Prospection, v. 1, pp. 1-10. DOI 10.1002/arp.1710    ARP1710
  • 2018: with John Arthur; Matthew C. Curtis; Kathryn Weedman Arthur; Mauro Coltorti; Pierluigi Pieruccini; Joséphine Lesur; Dorian Fuller; Leilani Lucas; Lawrence Conyers; Jay Stock; Sean Stretton. The Transition from Foraging to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia. African Archaeological Review. 1-61. doi.org/10.1007/s10437-018-09322-w Arthur et al. 2019_Article
  • 2018: with Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Katherine M. Grillo, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Susan K. Pfeiffer, Lawrence B. Conyers, Steven T. Goldstein and Austin Chad Hill. A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 36 (2018): 8942-8947. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721975115:  this is the supplementary materials that has the GPR analysis in it: supplement_pnas_kenya
  • 2018: Integration of GPR and magnetics to study the interior features and history of earthen mounds, Mapoon, Queensland, Australia. With Emma J. St Pierre, Mary-Jean Sutton and Chet Walker.Archaeological Prospection, v. pp 1-10. DOI 10.1002/arp.1710   ARP1710
  • 2016:Ground-penetrating radar mapping using multiple processing and interpretation methods: remotesensing-08-00562. Remote Sensing, v. 8, doi: 10.3990
  • 2015 Ground-penetrating radar data analysis for more complete archaeological interpretations.   conyers_2015_warsaw. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 15–19 September 2015, Warsaw, Poland. The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, the Copernicus Science Centre, pp. 202-205
  • 2015 Analysis and interpretation of GPR datasets for integrated archaeological mapping: Multiple GPR datasets for integrated archaeological mapping. Near_surface_geophysics_2015       Journal of Near-surface Geophysics, vol. 31, no 1., pp. 2241-2262
  • 2013: Ground-penetrating radar studies at the Hammer Test Bed Facility, Richland, Washington,  nw_archaeology_hammer, Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 47(2):153–166 2013
  • 2013:Understanding Cultural History Using Ground-Penetrating Radar Mapping of Unmarked Graves in the Mapoon Mission Cemetery, Western Cape York, Queensland, Australia mapoon_gpr_sutton_conyers(with Mary-Jean Sutton) International Journal of Historical Archaeology v. 242, pp. 24-48.
  • 2013 (with J. Michael Daniels, Jonathan A. Haws and Michael M. Benedetti): An Upper Palaeolithic Landscape Analysis of Coastal Portugal Using Ground-penetrating Radar.  Conyers_etal_2013Archaeological Prospection, v. 20, pp. 45-51.
  • 2012:Advances in ground-penetrating radar exploration in southern Arizona. Advances-In_GPR-Arizona. Journal of Arizona Archaeology, Vol. 22, pp. 80-91.
  • 2011:Discovery, mapping and interpretation of buried cultural resources non-invasively with ground-penetrating radar jge_2011 Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, V. 8, pp. S13-22.
  • 2010:Geophysical archaeology research agendas for the future: Some ground-penetrating radar examples.  (with Juerg Leckebusch) ARP-379Archaeological Prospection, V. 17, pp. 117-123.
  • 2010:Ground-penetrating radar for anthropological research antiquity_article_larry. Antiquity, v. 84, n. 323, pp 175-184.
Here is a study I did in 2020 with GPR to model the Laetoli, Tanzania hominid foot prints.  These results are still preliminary, using very high frequency antennas. the link is to the right in blue.  I will be interested in any comments or suggestions on this topic:

Laetoli Footprint model

And some others on Hawaii GPR and graves.  The grave subject is covered much more intensely in my 2012 book
NON-REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
  • 2019: Multiple processing and interpretation methods of a complex 3-D GPR dataset: An example from northern Australia  13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, 28 August – 1 September 2019, Sligo – Ireland edited by James Bonsall. Printed ISBN 9781789693065. Epublication ISBN 9781789693072, pp. 242-247.ICAP 2019_conyers
  • 2017: In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection, Edited by Benjamin Jennings, Christopher Gaffney, Thomas Sparrow and Sue Gaffney, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 38-41. bradford_conference
  • 2015: Multiple datasets for landscape analysis. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection, conyers_2015_warsaw Edited by Tomasz Herbich, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 241-249.
  • 2011: Ground-penetrating Radar Mapping of Non-reflective Archaeological Features.  turkey_publication In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Sept. 19-24, Izmir, Turkey. Edited by Mahmut Drahor and Meric Berge. Archaeology and Art Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 177-179.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
  • 2018: Ground-penetrating Radar. In Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Ed. By Allan S. Gilbert, Paul Goldberg, Vance T. Holliday, Rolfe D. Mandel and Robert S. Sternberg, Springer Reference, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 367-378   encyclopedia_geoarchaeology
  • 2012: Ground-penetrating Radar Exploration and Mapping Techniques for Garden Archaeology. garden_archaeology In Sourcebook for Garden Archaeology. Edited by Aicha Malek and Cecile Thiebault, Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland, pp. 200-236.
  • 2009: Ground-penetrating radar for landscape archaeology. landscape_archaeology_2009  In Seeing the Unseen-Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology.  Edited by Stefano Campana and Salvatore Piro.  CRC Press/Balkema: Taylor and Francis Group, London., pp 245-256.
And some other misc. articles on urban GPP and GPR in southern Arizona: