North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Bluff Great House Site; Site Number: _____; County: San Juan; State: UT; Country: USA; Ownership: Town of Bluff; Landform: High terrace above the San Jaun River;

Date of Site: AD 900-1150; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Chacoan; Site Type: Great Kiva ; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: Geophysical Survey System, Inc. Subsurface Interface Radar-10 (SIR-10); Sampling Interval: 1 m spacing with a 300 and 500 MHz antenna; Prospecting Depth: 2 m; Area Surveyed: 40 x 30 m; Date of Survey: June-1996 and October-1997; Land Cover Type: _____; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

GPR profile (colorized) from a 500 MHz antenna;

GPR time slice (colorized) from the Bluff Great Kiva Site at 0.47-0.68 m depth;

GPR time slice (colorized) from the Bluff Great Kiva Site at 0.90-1.11 m below the present ground surface; GPR time slice (colorized) from the Bluff Great Kiva Site at 1.11-1.33 m below the present ground surface;

Project Name: Bluff Great House Site, UT;

Reference: Conyers, L.B., and C.M. Cameron. (1998). Finding and Mapping Buried Archaeological Features in the American Southwest: New Ground-Penetrating Radar Techniques and Three-Dimensional Computer Mapping. Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Survey by: Lawrence B. Conyers, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 2130 S. Race Street, Denver, CO, USA, 80208; Phone: 303-871-2684; email: lconyers@du.edu. Catherine M. Cameron, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 233, Boulder, CO, USA, 80309; Phone: 303-492-0408; email: cameron@colorado.edu.

Survey for: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Report Location: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training; Report Type: Research Report;

Abstract/Summary