North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Pfeffer Site; Site Number: 11S204; County: St. Clair; State: Illinois; Country: USA; Ownership: _____; Landform: Upland Ridges;

Date of Site: AD 1050-1200; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture:Mississippian; Site Type: Mound Center; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan FM36; Sampling Interval: 0.125m x 0.5m; Prospecting Depth: _____; Area Surveyed: 2,800 sq. m; Date of Survey: May 2000; Land Cover Type: Low Corn (6-8 in); Ground Truthing:_Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Image showing magnetic anomalies.

Magnetic image with interpretations. Red rectangles are structures, yellow circles are pits, and white lines indicate limit of mechanized stripping of plow zone.

 

Project Name: Richland Archaeological Project;

Reference: Alt, S., M. Hargrave and T. Pauketat. (2001). Geophysical Investigations at Cahokia Outlying Settlements. Poster presented at the 66th Annual Meetingof the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.;

Survey by:_Dr. Michael Hargrave (ERDC/CERL) Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois Phone: (217) 352- 6511 ext 7325
E-mail: michael.l.hargrave@erdc.usace.army.mil;

Survey for: _University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign;

Report Location: ERDC/CERL; Report Type: Poster;

Abstract/Summary