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Guide to Good Practice: Geophysical Data in Archaeology
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2nd Edition
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by Armin Schmidt and Eileen Ernenwein
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Section 1. Introduction
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1.1 Aims and objectives of this Guide
1.2 Terminology used
1.3 Backing up project data
1.4 Layout of this Guide
Section 2. The Life of Geophysical Data
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2.1 Introduction
2.2 Data acquisition
2.3 Storage in instrument
2.4 Download to and storage on computer
2.5 Conversion to other formats
2.6 Assembling data into composites
2.7 Processing
2.8 Georeferencing and data combination
2.9 Interpretation
2.10 Reporting
2.11 Archiving
Section 3. Documenting and Archiving
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3.1 Reasons for archiving
3.2 Issues when archiving
3.3 Data documentation and metadata
3.4 The Archive and the Archiving Body
Section 4. Archive Files
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4.1 Working files
4.2 Preservation files
4.3 Image Files
4.4 Project notes
4.5 Project report
4.6 Geophysics and project metadata
4.7 Geophysics georeferencing
4.8 File description
Section 5. Comprehensive Documentation
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5.1 Introduction
5.2 Project metadata
5.3 Geophysics metadata
5.3.1 All Survey Techniques
5.3.2 Earth Resistance Surveys
5.3.3 Magnetometer Surveys
5.3.4 Low Frequency Electromagnetic Surveys
5.3.5 Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys
5.3.6 Maritime Sonar Surveys
5.3.7 Survey Methodology
5.4 Data treatment
5.5 Report
5.6 Case study 1: the Cottam project
5.7 Case study 2: the Leptiminus geophysical survey
Section 6. Subsets of Documentation
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6. Subsets of Documentation
Section 7. Depositing to Archives
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7.1 Planning for Archiving
7.2 Geophysical Survey
7.3 Creating the Archive
7.4 Depositing to an Archiving Body
Section 8. Conclusions
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8. Conclusions
Appendices
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Appendix 1: Preservation File Formats
Appendix 2: Georeferencing Geophysical Data
Appendix 3: The Archaeological Context of Geophysical Surveys
Appendix 4: Term Lists
Bibliography and Further Reading
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Bibliography