North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Orendorf Site; Site Number: _____; County: Fulton; State: IL; Country: USA; Ownership: _____; Landform: River Terrace;

Date of Site: AD ?-1275; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Middle Mississipian; Site Type: Village, House; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Soiltest ER-2 Electrical Resistivity Meter; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 0.9 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.3 m; 0.9 m; Area Surveyed: ~200 sq m; Date of Survey: _____; Land Cover Type: Cultivated Farmland; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistivity map based on 3-feet (0.9 meter) electrode spacing;

Elongate fabric patterns picked from the contoured electrical resistivity map and fabric orientation diagrams;

Project Name: Orendorf Site, IL;

Reference: Klasner, J.S., and P. Calengas. (1981). Electrical Resistivity and Soil Studies at Orendorf Archaeological Site, Illinois: a Case Study. Journal of Field Archaeology 8:167-174. Reproduced from Journal of Field Archaeology with the permission of the Trustees of Boston University. All rights reserved.

Survey by: John S. Klasner, Professor of Geology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; Peter Calengas, Assistant Professor of Geology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL.

Survey for: _____;

Report Location: NA; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary