North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Kaplan-Hoover; Site Number: 5LR3953; County: Larimer; State: CO; Country: USA; Ownership: Private; Landform:River terrace;

Date of Site: 3000 BP ; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Middle Archaic-Besant; Site Type: Bison kill-arroyo trap; Site Size: 1 acre?;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 1.0 m; Prospecting Depth: 2.0 m; Area Surveyed: 400 sq m; Date of Survey: August 1999; Land Cover Type: Open weeds/brush/graded-disturbed slope; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Electrical resistivity at the Kaplan-Hoover Site showing the gradient to the south and zones interpreted as the likeliest possible candidates for arroyos;

  

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: GSSI SIR-2000, with 400 MHz antenna; Sampling Interval: 0.02 x 2 m; Prospecting Depth: about 2.5 m; Area Surveyed: 400 sq m; Date of Survey: August 1999; Land Cover Type: Open weeds/brush/graded-disturbed slope; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

GPR profiles from the Kaplan-Hoover Site showing little pattern in the anomaly distribution;

 

Project Name: Kaplan-Hoover (5LR3953), CO;

Reference: Kenneth L. Kvamme (2000). Geophysical Explorations at the Kaplan-Hoover Site (5LR3953), Larimer County, Colorado. Report prepared for Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

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: Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado;

Report Location: Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary