North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Bozeman Cemetery ; Site Number: _____; County: Clark; State: AR; Country: USA; Ownership: Private; Landform: Rolling hills;

Date of Site: 1840s-1950; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Euroamerican; Site Type: Cemetery; Site Size: about 0.5 ha;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15 with MPX-15 multiplexer; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 m; Area Surveyed: 800 sq m; Date of Survey: April, 2000; Land Cover Type: Wooded with brush (manually cleared); Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistance image (50 cm depth) showing numerous graves and locus of GPR survey, Bozeman Cemetery, AR;  

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM-36; Sampling Interval: 0.25 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 800 sq m; Date of Survey: April, 2000; Land Cover Type: Wooded with brush (manually cleared); Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic gradiometry image showing principal iron artifact derived anomalies and a trail feature at Bozeman Cemetery, AR;  

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: GSSI SIR-2000, with 400 MHz antenna; Sampling Interval: 0.02 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: about 2.5 m; Area Surveyed: 220 sq m; Date of Survey: April, 2000; Land Cover Type: Wooded with brush (manually cleared); Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

A GPR profile showing a number of anomalies, several of which correspond with known graves, at Bozeman Cemetery, AR; A time slice at 40-50 nS between 22 GPR transects showing known and probable graves and other anomalies at Bozeman Cemetery, AR;

Project Name: Bozeman Cemetery, AR;

References: Kvamme, K.L. (2000). Bozeman Cemetery Survey (work in progress), data on file, ArcheoImaging Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas.

Hogge, Allison (2000). A Map of the Past: How Tomorrow's Technology is Helping Archeologists Re-Vision Yesterday. University of Arkansas Research Frontiers, Fall issue, p. 25.

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: Clark County Historical Association; U.S. Forest Service;

Report Location: ArcheoImaging Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas; Report Type: Work in progress;

Abstract/Summary