Larry CV
Curriculum Vitae
LAWRENCE B. CONYERS
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
B.S. Geology Oregon State University.
M.S. Geology Arizona State University. Thesis: Depositional Environments of Supai Formation, Central Arizona.
M.A. Anthropology (1993) University of Colorado, Boulder.
PhD. Anthropology (1995) University of Colorado, Boulder. Dissertation: The Use of Ground-penetrating Radar to Map the Topography and Structures at the Ceren Site, El Salvador.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
2021: Georadar Aplicado en Geotecnia y Arqueología. GeoMantis, Monterrey, Mexico. ISBN 978-1-63972-317-1
2018: Ground-penetrating Radar and Magnetometry for Buried Landscape Analysis, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland
2016: Ground-penetrating Radar for Geoarchaeology, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, London.
2013: Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeology, 3rd Edition. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Alta Mira Press, Latham, Maryland
2012: Interpreting Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeology. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, New York
2007: (with Dean Goodman) Ground-penetrating Radar: Un’introduzione per gli archeologi. Aracne editrice, Roma.
2004: Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeology, 2nd Edition. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
1997: (with Dean Goodman) Ground-penetrating Radar: An Introduction for Archaeologists. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
2021 Three-dimension (3D) presentation of a hominid cave using ground-penetrating radar. ArchéoSciences Volume 45-2, Issue 2, July 2021, pp: 91-95. With Huthaifa Qawasmeh and Mohammed M. Al-Hameedawi
2020: Karst features interpretation using ground-penetrating radar: A case study from the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain with Lucía Bermejo, Ana Isabel Ortega, Josep M. Parés, Isidoro Campaña, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, 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. 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
2019: with Mary-Jean Sutton and Emma St Pierre, E. Dissecting and Interpreting a ThreeDimensional Ground-Penetrating Radar Dataset: An Example from Northern Australia. Sensors, 19(5), pp. 12-39. doi.org/10.3390/s19051239
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
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
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
2016: Ground-penetrating radar mapping using multiple processing and interpretation methods. Remote Sensing, v. 8, n. 7, pp 862., doi.org/10.3390/rs8070562
2015 Ground-penetrating radar data analysis for more complete archaeological interpretations. 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. 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, 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 (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. Archaeological Prospection, v. 20, pp. 45-51.
2012: Advances in ground-penetrating radar exploration in southern 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. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, V. 8, pp. S13-22.
2010: (with Juerg Leckebusch) Geophysical archaeology research agendas for the future: Some ground-penetrating radar examples. Archaeological Prospection, V. 17, pp. 117-123.
2010: Ground-penetrating radar for anthropological research. Antiquity, v. 84, n. 323, pp 175-184.
2009: (with Shelley Wachsmann, Richard K. Dunn, John R. Hale, Robert L. Hohlfelder, Lawrence B. Conyers, Eileen G. Ernenwein, Payson Sheets, Maria Luisa Pienheiro Blot, Filipe Castro and Dan Davis). The palaeo-environmental contexts of three possible Phoenician anchorages in Portugal. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-9270.2009. 00224.x
2009: Ground-penetration radar mapping. Within Nadel, Dani et al: The Late Natufian of Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, v. 38, pp. 78-86.
2008: (with Eileen Ernenwein, Kelsey Lowe and Michael Grealy). Electromagnetic Conductivity Mapping for Site Prediction in Meandering River Floodplains. Archaeological Prospection, v. 14, n. 5, pp. 24-35.
2007: (with Sam Connell). The applicability of using ground-penetrating radar to discover and map buried archaeological sites in Hawaii. Hawaiian Archaeology, v. 11, pp. 62-77.
2007: (with Alton E. Kinlaw and Will Zajac). Use of ground-penetrating radar to image burrows of the Gopher Tortoise. Herpetological Review, v. 38, n. 1, pp. 50-56.
2006: Innovative ground-penetrating radar methods for archaeological mapping Archaeological Prospection, v. 13, n. 2, pp. 139-141.
2006: Ground-penetrating radar techniques to discover and map historic graves, Historical Archaeology, v 40, n. 3, pp. 64-73.
2002: (with Eileen G. Ernenwein and Leigh-Ann Bedal). Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Mapping as a Method for Planning Excavation Strategies, Petra, Jordan. E-tiquity Number 1. ISSN 1541-5465.
2002: Ground-penetrating radar discovery at Petra, Jordan. Antiquity, v. 76, pp. 339340.
2000: Subsurface mapping of a buried Paleoindian living surface, Lime Creek Site, Nebraska, USA. Geoarchaeology, v. 15, n. 8 pp.799-817.
1998: (with Catherine Cameron) Finding Buried Archaeological Features in the American Southwest: New Ground-penetrating radar techniques and three-dimensional computer mapping: Journal of Field Archaeology, v. 25, n. 4.
1996: Archaeological evidence for dating the Loma Caldera Eruption, Ceren, El Salvador. Geoarchaeology, v. 11, n. 5, pp. 245-263.
1996: (with Jeffrey Lucius): Velocity analysis in archaeological ground-penetrating radar studies. Archaeological Prospection, v. 3, pp. 312-333.
1995: The use of ground-penetrating radar to map the buried structures and landscape of the Ceren Site, El Salvador. Geoarchaeology, v. 10, no. 4, pp. 275-299.
NON-REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
2022: GPR for more than just finding buried materials: A case study in testing ideas about cultural change and community dynamics in 10th century southern Arizona, USA. Proceedings of the 19th International GPR Conference, Golden, Colorado June 12-17, 2022.
2021: Using ground-penetrating radar to analyze interior details of a Hohokam dwelling to test ideas about cultural change and community dynamics in 10th century southern Arizona, USA. ICAP Proceedings Lyon, France, Sept. 10-15, 2021
2020: Integration of GPR with magnetics to understand the composition and origin of units to understand the interior features and history of earthen mounds, Mapoon, Queensland Australia. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar, Golden, Colorado, 14-19 June 2020. Society of Economic Geophysics. DOI: 10.1190/gpr2020-004.1
2019: Multiple processing and interpretation methods of a complex 3-D GPR dataset: An example from northern Australia. Proceedings of the ICAP International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. Sligo, Ireland August 28-Sept. 2, 2019. Printed ISBN 9781789693065. Epublication ISBN 9781789693072, pp. 242-247
2019 Integration of GPR with and magnetics to understand the composition and origin of units to study the interior features and history of earthen mounds, Mapoon, Queensland, Australia. Proceedings of the Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec 10-15, 2019. Published by AAA, Canberra, Australia.
2011: Advances in the Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites in Southern Arizona. Bulletin of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, No. 66, June 2011, pp 1-6.
2011: Ground-penetrating Radar Exploration and Mapping in the American Southwest. Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest, Summer 2011. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, pp 1-3.
2011: Ground-penetrating Radar Mapping of Non-reflective Archaeological Features. 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.
2008: Ground-penetrating radar for archaeological mapping. Fast Times: News for the Near-surface Geophysical Sciences, v. 13, pp. 29-35.
2007: Ground-penetrating radar for urban archaeological mapping. SAGEEP 2007 Conference proceedings, Denver Colorado, pp. 1-74-1081
2006: GPR Mapping to Test Anthropological Hypotheses: A Study from Comb Wash, Utah , American Southwest. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar, Columbus Ohio, June 19-21, 2006, Edited by Jeffrey J. Daniel, pp. 1-8.
2004: Moisture and soil differences as related to the spatial accuracy of amplitude maps at two archaeological tests sites. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar, Delft, The Netherlands pp 435-438
1999: (with Dean Goodman) Archaeology looks to new depths: Ground-penetrating radar technology allows subsurface imaging of buried archaeological sites. Discovering Archaeology, v. 1, n. 1, pp. 70-77.
1999: Geophysics, Ground-penetrating Radar and Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology Bulletin, v. 17, n. 4, pp. 26-29.
1998: Acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques for ground-penetrating radar mapping of buried pit-structures in the American Southwest. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar. Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Kansas, pp. 53-59.
1996: The use of ground-penetrating radar to map the archaeology and paleogeography of the Ceren Site, El Salvador. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar. pp. 89-94. Tohoku University Faculty of Engineering, Sendai, Japan.
1996: Clues from a village: dating a volcanic eruption. Geotimes v. 41, n. 11, pp. 2023.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
2022 Ground-penetrating Radar. In Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, 2nd Edition. Ed. Allan S. Gilbert. Springer Reference Series, Heidelberg, New York, London.
2017: 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
2012: Subsurface testing: ground-penetrating radar. In Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Ed. By Neil Asher Silberman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 256-258
2012: Ground-penetrating Radar Exploration and Mapping Techniques for Garden Archaeology. In Sourcebook for Garden Archaeology. Edited by Aicha Malek and Cecile Thiebault, Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland, pp. 200-236.
2010 (in Italian): Ground-penetrating Radar (GPR) per l’archeologia. In Profundita Senza Scavare: Methodologie di Indagine Non Invasiva e Diagnostica per Archeologia. Edited by Enrico Giorgi. Bradypus s.a., Bologna, Italy, pp. 359-371
2009: Ground-penetrating radar for landscape archaeology. 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.
2006: Ground-penetrating Radar. In Remote Sensing in Archaeology: A North American Perspective. Edited by Jay K. Johnson, The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pp. 131-160.
2006: Ground-penetrating radar tests in Hippos. In Hippos-Sussita. Edited by Arthur Segal, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa Press, Haifa, Israel., pp. 99-107.
2006: Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeological Mapping. In Remote Sensing for Archaeology. Edited by James Wisemen, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, N.Y., pp. 329-344.
2004(with Henry D. Wallace) Ground-penetrating radar techniques and three-dimensional computer mapping at the Valencia Site. In Archaeological Excavations at Valencia Vieja. Technical Report No. 2001-11. Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona. Pp 135-143.
2002: (with Hartmut Spetzler) Geophysical Exploration at Ceren. In Before the Volcano Erupted. Ed. Payson Sheets. University of Texas Press, Austin. pp 2432.
2001: Ground-penetrating radar. In Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology. Ed. Joseph P. Hornak. John Wiley and Sons, New York. Pp 463-476
2000: The use of ground-penetrating radar in archaeology. In Radiation in Art and Archaeology. Eds, D.C. Creagh and D.A. Braadley, pp 1-14. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.