North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Effigy Mounds National Monument (4); Site Number: _____; County: Clayton; State: IA; Country: USA; Ownership: Federal - NPS; Landform: River Terrace;

Date of Site: AD 500-1300; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Late Woodland; Site Type: Animal Effigy Mounds; Site Size: 1,481 acres;

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM-36; Sampling Interval: 0.125 x 0.5 m; 0.25 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 2,190 sq m; Date of Survey: 10-14-May-1999; Land Cover Type: Forest-Clearing; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic image, Great Bear, Mound 31, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;	Magnetic image, Little Bear, Mound 52, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;
Magnetic image, bird effigy, Mound 81, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 0.5 m; 1 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 m; 1 m; Area Surveyed: 2,938 sq m; Date of Survey: 10-14-May-1999; Land Cover Type: Forest-Clearing; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistance image, Great Bear, Mound 31, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;	Resistance image, Little Bear, Mound 52, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;
Resistance image, bird effigy, Mound 81, Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA;

Project Name: Effigy Mounds, IA (4);

Reference: Kvamme, K.L. (1999). Archeo-Geophysical Surveys at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa. Department of Anthropology and Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Submitted to the Midwest Archeological Center, U.S. National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Survey by: Kenneth L. Kvamme, Department of Anthropology, Main 330, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA; Phone: 501-575-4130; Fax: 501-575-6595; email: kkvamme@uark.edu; web: www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/kvamme.html.

Survey for: U.S. National Park Service, as part of workshop sponsored by the National Park Service: "Recent Advances in Archaeological Prospection Techniques."

Report Location: Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, NE; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary