North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Tibes; Site Number: _____; County: _____; State: Puerto Rico (Territory); Country: USA; Ownership: _____; Landform: Alluvial Terraces;

Date of Site: 300 BC-AD1200; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Saladoid, Elenan/Ostionan Ostionoid; Site Type: Civic-Ceremonial Center; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Gossen Geohm 3; Sampling Interval: 1 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 m; Area Surveyed: 5,200 sq m; Date of Survey: Summer 1998; Land Cover Type: Mowed Grass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistivity image of north grids showing the location of trails and a possible house feature;	Analytical hillshading of resistivity data from west4 grids, with identified anomalies;
Resistivity image of west4 grids with identified anomalies;	Resistivity image of eastern grids with identified anomalies;

Project Name: Tibes, Puerto Rico;

Reference: Curet, L.A., L.A. Newsom, and D. Welch. (1998). Report on the 1998 Tibes Archaeological Project Resistivity Survey, Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Survey by: L. Antonio Curet, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver; Lee A. Newsom, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Daniel Welch, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.

Survey for: Tibes Archaeological Park;

Report Location: Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary