North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Teotihuacan; Site Number: _____; County: _____; State: México; Country: Mexico; Ownership: _____; Landform: _____;

Date of Site: 100 BC-AD 700; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Teotihuacan; Site Type: Civic-Ceremonial Center; Site Size: _____;

Survey Type: Magnetometry-Total Field;

Instrument: Varian Total Field Cesium Magnetometer; Sampling Interval: 1 m; 2 x 4 m; 4 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 4-50 to 65 m transects;13,280 sq m; Date of Survey: 1992; Land Cover Type: _____; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Total field magnetic anomaly map surveyed to the west of the Pyramid of the Sun;	Total field magnetic anomaly map reduced to the pole and a three-dimensional representation both from a grid surveyed to the west of the Pyramid of the Sun;
Total field magnetic anomaly map surveyed to the east of the Pyramid of the Sun;	Three-dimensional view of total field magnetic data reduced to the pole from a grid surveyed to the east of the Pyramid of the Sun;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Scintrex TSQ transmitter of 2.5 Kw and Ipr-10 receiver; Sampling Interval: 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 4-6 m; Area Surveyed: 4-50 to 65 m transects; Date of Survey: 1992; Land Cover Type: _____; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistivity and magnetic profiles of TEO-1;	Resistivity and magnetic profiles of TEO-4;
Resistivity and magnetic profiles of TEO-5;

Project Name: Teotihuacan, México, Mexico;

Reference: Manzanilla, L., L. Barba, R. Chávez, A. Tejero, G. Cifuentes, and N. Peralta (1994). Caves and Geophysics: An Approximation to the Underworld of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Archaeometry 36(1):141-157 (used with permission).

Survey by: L. Manzanilla, L. Barba, and N. Peralta, Institute of Anthropological Research; R. Chávez and G. Cifuentes, Institute of Geophysics; A. Tejero, Faculty of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Circuito Exterior, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico.

Survey for: _____;

Report Location: _____; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary