Sentence examples for surface survey from inspiring English sources

Ceramic seriation is one of the primary tools used by archaeologists to create chronologies, especially for surface survey data.

The 2003 2006 Suburban Survey at Tell Brak investigated the spatial dimensions of the city's urban origins and evolution via intensive systematic surface survey.

However, results of a large-scale surface survey and obsidian geochemical and hydration analyses indicate further assessment of both trends is warranted.

We address this uncertainty by optimizing the distribution of Ra samples within a surface survey of 224Ra activity in the Lesina Lagoon, Italy.

Spatial data from surface survey is synthesized with historical context and 'imagined' moated spaces found in pictorial and textual sources to determine how moats may have been perceived by different groups of people in medieval society.

The application of a comprehensive risk management procedure, the execution of an intensive surface survey, and the adaptability of the tunnel design to the encountered geological conditions allowed the successful completion of the excavation works.

Archaeologists, in surface surveys, are able to separate discrete systems by period, through a study of potsherds found on sites that lie along the canals.

It prohibited Parada's group from actually digging on the state property, but it said he could continue doing "surface surveys and searches as a hobby activity," provided he accepted the liability if he got hurt.

The results also provide a cautionary note on negative results from archaeological surface surveys given the rate at which alluvium has accumulated in the interfluve.

For mountain regions the large cost and long time required for deep borings generally limit their number; but much can be learned from thorough aerial and surface surveys, plus well-logging and geophysical techniques developed in the oil industry.

Pioneering surface surveys by the American geographer Robert McCormic Adams in the northern part of the alluvial plain (1956 57) and in the Diyālā region (1957 58) were followed by similar work in the Khūzestān plain of Iran (1961) and the southern alluvium (1967) and by a restudy of the central alluvium (1971 73).