Aitken, M.J. (1961). Physics and Archaeology. Interscience Publishers Inc., New York. 181 pages, 50 figures, 28 plates.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Finding
Chapter 2. Magnetic Location
Chapter 3. The Proton Magnetometer
Chapter 4. Resistivity Surveying
Chapter 5. Dating
Chapter 6. Radiocarbon Dating
Chapter 7. Magnetic Dating
Chapter 8. Analysis

Bevan, B.W. (1998). Geophysical Exploration for Archaeology: An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration. Midwest Archeological Center Special Report No. 1. 108 pages, 177 figures.

Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Resistivity Surveys
Magnetic Surveys
Conductivity Surveys
Radar Surveys
Self-Potential Surveys
Special Topics
Notes on the Figures

Campana, S. and M. Forte. (2001). Remote Sensing in Archaeology: XI Ciclo di Lezioni Sullla Ricerca Applicata in Archeologia Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), 6-11 Dicembre 1999. ISBN 88-7814-175-5. 354 pages, 152 figures, 16 plates.

Contents:
(Chapters using geophysics are highlighted in bold.)

—Introduzione al corso, di Sefano Campana, Maurizio Forte
—Nota introduttiva
—Il telerilevamento in Archeologia, di Stefano Campana, Enzo Pranzini
—Satellite Remote Sensing applications, di Livio Rossi, Fabio Volpe
—Archeologia e remote sensing: geografia dei servizi e delle risorse in Internet, di Stefano Campana
—Telerilevamento e paesaggi archeologici tridimensionali, di Maurizio Forte
—High resolution aerial color IR, multi-spectral, hyper-dpectral and SAR imagery vver the Oatlands Plantation archaeological site near Leesburg, Virginia, di Victor Failmezger
—Landsat TM imagery in landcape archaeology: Detection and modeling, di Richard M. Rothaus, Amber A. De Morett
—Multispectral Remote Sensing for archaeology, di Daniel N.M. Donoghue
—Studio del territorio quale strumento per investigare le relazioni tra siti archeologici e ambiente circostante, di Neda Parmegiani, Maurizio Poscolieri
—Il telerilevamento iperspettrale da aereo per lo studio dei Beni Archeologici: applicazione dei dati iperpettrali MIVIS, di Rosa Maria Cavalli, Stefano Pignatti
—The Heslerton Parish Project. An integrated multi-sensor approach to the archaeological study of Eastern Yorkshire, England, di Dominic Powlesland
—Aerial archaeology and air photo mapping in Britain, di Toby Driver, Chris Musson
—Integrazione di metodi geofisici ad alta risoluzione per l'indagine nei siti archeologici, di Salvatore Piro
—La planificación y la géstion del patrimonio. La herramienta geofísica, di Luis Valdes
—Introduzione all'uso dei GPS in archeologia, di Roberto Gabrelli

Carr, C. (1982). Handbook on Soil Resistivity Surveying: Interpretation of Data From Earthen Archeological Sites. Center for American Archeology Press, Evanston, Illinois. ISBN 0-942118-13-8. 676 pages, 340 figures.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Mathematical Methods for Preparing Resistivity Data for Interpretation
Chapter 3. Factors Affecting the Electrical Conductivity of Soils
Chapter 4. Natural Processes Determining the Formation of Soil from Human Refuse and the Maintenance of Anthropic Soil Anomalies Within Archeological Sites
Chapter 5. A Functional and Distributional Study of Surface Artifacts from the Crane Site
Chapter 6. Research Designs for Collecting Pedological and Resistivity Data from the Crane Site
Chapter 7. Natural Soil Variations and Soil Alterations Produced by Historic Human Activity at the Crane Site
Chapter 8. Soil Alterations Produced by Prehistoric Human Activities at the Crane Site
Chapter 9. Soil Resistivity as a Product of Multiple Physical and Chemical Soil Properties Illustrated at the Crane Site
Chapter 10. The Feasibility of Using the Barnes Layer Method and Spatial Filtering Techniques to Isolate Archeologically Significant Soil Resistivity Variation Illustrated at the Crane Site
Chapter 11. Boundary Conditions for the Proposed Methods, and Conclusions
Appendix I. Computer Programs for Calculating Barnes Layer Resisitivity Values and for Spatial Filtering Resistivity Data
Appendix II. Operational Procedures of Defining Depositional Sets within the Crane Assemblage
Appendix III. Additional Attributes of Retouched and Unretouched Chipped Stone Tools from the Crane Site
Appendix IV. Artifact Densities in the Controlled Surface Survey Units at the Crane Site
Appendix V. Resistivity and Soil Data Collected from the Transect Survey at the Crane Site
Appendix VI. Resistivity and Soil Data Collected from the Block Survey at the Crane Site
Appendix VII. Physical and Chemical Properties of Natural Soils, Midden Deposits, and Pit Fills, and Their Matrices at the Crane Site

Clark, A. J. (1996). Seeing Beneath the Soil: Prospecting Methods in Archaeology (New Edition). Revised Edition. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London. ISBN 0-415-21440-8. 192 pages, 128 figures.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Development of Archaeological Prospecting
Chapter 2. Resistivity
Chapter 3. Magnetometry
Chapter 4. Magnetic Susceptibility
Chapter 5. Other Methods
Chapter 6. Choice of Method: Choice of Site
Chapter 7. Interpretation and Presentation
Chapter 8. Survey Logistics

Conyers, L.B. and D. Goodman. (1997). Ground-Penetrating Radar: An introduction for Archaeologists. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California. ISBN 0-7619-8927-7. 232 pages, 58 figures, 8 plates.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The GPR Method
Chapter 3. GPR Equipment and Data Gathering
Chapter 4. Post-Acquisition Data Processing
Chapter 5. Synthetic GPR Modeling
Chapter 6. Time-Depth Analyses
Chapter 7. The Use of GPR Data to Map Buried Surfaces and Archaeological Features
Chapter 8. Amplitude Analysis in GPR Studies

Book Review

Doneus, M., Eder-Hinterleitner, A., and W. Neubauer, eds. (2001). Archaeological Prospection: Fourth International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna. ISBN 3-7001-3004-X. 206 pages, 210 figures.

Contents:

Foreword
Archaeological Prospection
Archaeological Prospection in Austria
The Excursion Sites
Program and Abstracts of the 4th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection
Integrated Prospection Approaches
Interpretation and Presentation
Processing and Visualization
GIS and Prospection
Archaeological Feedback
Technical Aspects
List of Participants

Ellis, L., ed. (2000). Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-8153-1305-1. 705 pages, 163 figures.

Subjects:

Fassbinder, J.W.E. and W.E. Irlinger, eds. (1999). Archaeological Prospection: Third International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, München. ISBN 3-87490-699-X. 188 pages, 206 figures.

Contents:

Foreword
Abstracts of the "Third International Conference on Archaeological Prospection" in Munich
—Aerial Prospection and Remote Sensing
—Radar Prospection
—Resistivity Prospection, Electromagnetic Prospection, Prospection Generally
—Modelling, Magnetometry
—Methods and Equipment used by the Department Archaeological Prospection and Aerial Archaeology at the Bavarian State Conservation Office, Munich
—Prospection in Cooperation with Foreign Authorities
—Third International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (1999): Program Participants

Gaffney, Chris and John Gater. (2003). Revealing the Buried Past: Geophysics for Archaeologists. Tempus Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire. ISBN 0-7524-2556-0. 192 pages, 104 figures, 24 plates.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Section 1: Science and Methodology in Archaeological Geophysics
Chapter 1. A History of Archaeological Geophysics
Chapter 2. Techniques of Geophysical Investigations
Chapter 3. Methods and Instruments
Chapter 4. Survey Logistics
Chapter 5. Post-survey Analysis
Section 2: Case Studies
Chapter 6. Surveying on Prehistoric Sites
Chapter 7. Surveying on Early Historic Sites
Chapter 8. Surveying on Later Historic and Modern Sites
Chapter 9. Looking forward to Prospecting the Past

Hasek, V. (1999). Methodology of Geophysical Research in Archaeology. BAR International Series 769. Archaeopress, Oxford. ISBN 0 86054 981 X. 127 pages, 132 figures, 18 plates.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Archaeogeophysical Investigation in the Czech Republic and its Development
Chapter 3. Methodology and Methods of Geo-Physical Works
Chapter 4. Results of Comprehensive Investigation and Their Discussion
Chapter 5. Summary of Results and New Information
Chapter 6. Conclusion

Heimmer, D.H. and S.L. De Vore (1995). Near-Surface, High Resolution Geophysical Methods for Cultural Resource Management and Archeological Investigations, Revised Edition. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, Division of Partnerships and Outreach, Interagency Archeological Services, Denver, Colorado. 176 pages.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Overview of Near-Surface Geophysical Methods
Chapter 3. Passive Geophysical Techniques
Chapter 4. Active or Induced Techniques, General Discussion
Chapter 5. Marine or Submerged Geophysical Considerations
Chapter 6. Geophysical Methods Having Limited Archeological Applications
Chapter 7. Quality Control
Chapter 8. Administrative Requirements
Chapter 9. Acquisition Records
Chapter 10. Project Planning Requirements
Chapter 11. Technical Review
Chapter 12. Concluding Remarks: The Perfect Survey

Herz, N. and E. Garrison (1997). Geological Methods for Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0195090241. 343 pages.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Scope of Archaeological Geology
Part. I The Archeological Site and Its Environment
Chapter 2. Geomorphology in Archaeology
Chapter 3. Sediments and Soils
Part II Dating Techniques
Chapter 4. Chemical Methods
Chapter 5. Radioactive Methods
Chapter 6. Radiation-Damage, Cosmogenic, and Atom-Counting Methods
Chapter 7. Other Chronological Methods
Part III Site Exploration
Chapter 8. Archaeogeophysical Exploration
Chapter 9. Soil Phosphate in Archaeological Surveys
Part IV Artifact Analysis
Chapter 10. Archaeological Materials: Rocks and Minerals
Chapter 11. Instrumental Analytical Techniques
Chapter 12. Metallic Minerals and Archaeological Geology
Chapter 13. Ceramics
Chapter 14. Applications of Stable Isotopes in Archaeological Geology

Book Review

Milsom, J. (1989). Field Geophysics, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex. ISBN 0-471-96634-7. 187 pages, 114 figures.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Gravity method
Chapter 3. Magnetic methods
Chapter 4. Radiometric surveys
Chapter 5. Electric current methods: general considerations
Chapter 6. Direct current methods
Chapter 7. Induced polarization
Chapter 8. Electromagnetic methods
Chapter 9. VLF methods
Chapter 10. Ground penetrating radar
Chapter 11. Seismic methods: general considerations
Chapter 12. Seismic reflection
Chapter 13. Seismic refraction

Moller, J.T. and M.S. Jorgensen, eds. (1984). Archaeology and Geophysical Prospections. Working Papers No. 14. The National Museum of Denmark. ISBN 87-480-0574-6. 215 pages, 70 figures.
(In Danish, chapter summaries given in English).

Contents:

Preface
Archaeology and Geophysics
Geo-electric Scanning
Georadar
Archaeomagnetism
Metal Detectors
Echo Sounding
Literature on Archaeology and Geophysics
List of Contributors

Mussett, A.E. and M.A. Khan. (2000). Looking Into the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Geophysics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-78085-3. 470 pages, 452 figures, 8 plates.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introducing Geophysics and This Book
Chapter 2. Data Acquisition and Reduction: Carrying out a Geophysical Survey
Chapter 3. Data Processing: Getting More Information from the Data
Chapter 4. Global Seismology and Seismic Waves
Chapter 5. Earthquakes and Seismotectonics
Chapter 6. Refraction Seismology
Chapter 7. Reflection Seismology
Chapter 8. Gravity on a Small Scale
Chapter 9. Large-Scale Gravity and Isostasy
Chapter 10. Paleomagnetism and Mineral Magnetism
Chapter 11. Magnetic Surveying
Chapter 12. Resistivity Methods
Chapter 13. Induced Polarisation and Self-Potential
Chapter 14. Electromagnetic Methods
Chapter 15. The Ages of Rocks and Minerals: Radiometric Dating
Chapter 16. Radioactive Surveying
Chapter 17. Geothermics: Heat and Temperature in the Earth
Chapter 18. Well Logging and Other Subsurface Geophysics
Chapter 19. Which Geophysical Methods to Use?
Chapter 20. Global Tectonics
Chapter 21. Is the Kenya Rift a New Plate Margin? A Regional Geophysical Study
Chapter 22. Hydrocarbon Exploration
Chapter 23. Exploration for Metalliferous Ores
Chapter 24. Volcanoes
Chapter 25. The Chicxulub Structure and the K/T Mass Extinction
Chapter 26. Hydrogeology and Contaminated Land
Chapter 27. Location of Cavities and Voids
Chapter 28. Archaeological Site Surveying

Neubauer, Wolfgang (2001). Magnetische Prospektion in der Archäologie, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna.
ISBN 3-7001-3009-0. 236 pages, 208 figures
(German language).

Contents (translated):

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Development of Archaeological-Geomagnetic Prospection
Chapter 3. Principles of Magnetic Prospection
Chapter 4. Measurements and Methodologies
Chapter 5. Data Handling, Visualization, and Archiving
Chapter 6. Three Dimensional Modeling and Site Reconstruction
Chapter 7. Archaeological Interpretation with GIS
Chapter 8. The Combination of Archaeological Prospection Data
Chapter 9. Summary and Prospects
References Cited

Pasquinucci, Marinella and Frédéric Trément (eds.) (2000). Non-Destructive Techniques Applied to Landscape Archaeology (Series: The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes 4). Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 1900188740. 276 pages. (In Italian, French, and English)

Contents:

Remote Sensing
Geophysics
9. The IGAPS Project: Integrated geophysical acquisition and processing system for cultural heritage, by D. Patella, S. Piro, et al.
10. La mesure de la résisitivité (ou de la conductivité) électrique du sol en prospection archéologique, by A. Hesse.
11. Magnetic techniques applied to archaeological survey, by D. Jordan.
12. Radar (G.P.R.) methods for historical and archaeological surveys, by E. Finzi & G.P. Deidda.
13. Seismic methods, by L. Sambuelli & G.P. Deidda.
14. The role of gravity surveys in archaeology, by M. Di Filippo, T. Ruspandini & B. Toro.
15. Acoustic methods in archaeology: Prospecting on a site of Parco Marturanum, by G.B. Canelli, E. D'Ottavi & A. Alippi
16. Integration of high resolution georadar and geoelectrical methods: Detection of subsurface shallow bodies, by S. Piro.
17. Filtrage numérique des données géophysiques, by J. Tabbagh.
Geochemicals
Surface Collection of Artifacts
Integrated Studies
23. The Pisa territory project, by E. Marchisio, M. Pasquinucci, et al.
24. Two examples of using combined prospecting techniques, by D. Grosman.
25. Expérience de croisement de méthodes de prospection sur le site des Girardes à Lapalud (Vaucluse, France), by F. Trément.
General Issues

Pollard, A.M. and D.R. Brothwell (2001). Handbook of Archaeological Science. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., New York. ISBN 0471984841. 782 pages.

Contents:

Foreword by Martin Aitken
Introduction: Archaeological Science: a Current Perspective by D. Brothwell and A. M. Pollard
Dating
Quaternary Paleoenvironments
Human Paleobiology
Biomolecular Archaeology
Biological Resource Exploitation
Inorganic Resource Exploitation
Archaeological Prospection
Burial, Decay and Archaeological Conservation
Statistical and Computational Methods

Roosevelt, A.C. (1991). Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil. Academic Press, San Diego, California. ISBN 0-12-595348-8. 495 pages, 75 figures.

Contents:

The Marajoara Chiefdom
Method and Theory for Amazonian Archaeology
The Marajo Archaeological Project
Geophysical Surveys at Teso Dos Bichos
Introduction
Topographic Mapping
Geophysical Characteristics of the Site
Magnetic Surveys
The Conductivity Survey
Resistivity Surveys
Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey
Conclusions from the Survey
Improvements for Future Surveys
The Excavations
The Analysis of Objects
Conclusions

Book Review

Scollar, I., A. Tabbagh, A. Hesse, and I. Herzog. (1990). Archaeological Prospecting and Remote Sensing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0 521 32050 X. 674 pages, 315 figures.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Archaeological Prospecting
Chapter 2. Soils and the Effects of Climate on Prospecting
Chapter 3. Aerial Photography
Chapter 4. Archaeological Image Enhancement
Chapter 5. Geometric Transformation of Archaeological Aerial Photographs and Mapping
Chapter 6. Resistivity Prospecting
Chapter 7. Magnetic Properties of Soils
Chapter 8. Magnetic Prospecting
Chapter 9. Electromagnetic Prospecting
Chapter 10. Thermal Prospecting

Book Review

Spoerry, P., ed. (1992). Geoprospection in the Archaeological Landscape. Oxbow Monograph No. 18. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 0 946897 42 5. 154 pages, 79 figures, 1 plate.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Trace Metal Accumulations in Soils On and Around Ancient Settlement in Greece. John Bintliff, Brian Davis, Chris Gaffney, Anthony Snodgrass, and Andrew Waters.
Chapter 2. Tofts Ness: Exploration and Interpretation in a Prehistoric Landscape. Steve Dockrill and John Gater.
Chapter 3. Field Magnetic Susceptibility Measurement for Prospection and Excavation. Adrian Challands.
Chapter 4. Geoarchaeological Enhancement of River Valley Archaeology in North East England. Dave Cowley, Mark Macklin, Colm O'Brien, Dave Passmore, and Tony Stevenson.
Chapter 5. Phosphate Survey Method and Meaning. Rick Walker.
Chapter 6. Tools for the Interpretation of Soil Phosphate Data. Bill Cavanagh and C. Lilton.
Chapter 7. Multielectrode Resistivity Tomography for Imaging Archaeology. Mark Noel.
Chapter 8. Recent Developments in Thermal Archaeological Prospection. Tim Bellerby, Mark Noel, and Keith Brannigan.
Chapter 9. The British Geological Survey: Geoprospection Techniques Applied to the Archaeological Landscape. Jenny Allsop.
Chapter 10. The Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Study in Need of Remote Sensing. Michael Aston.