This is a professor walking while describing a pedestrian survey placing flags at locations of observed objects atop ground or embedded in ground.
Doing An Archaeological Field Survey: A Video
Pedestrian Surveys
A pedestrian archaeological survey is a field surface survey. Rather than digging test pits, a team of archaeologists walks across an area in an organized grid pattern, recording surface features of archaeological significance. This can include the location of a stone tool, a rise indicating a human structure, or other evidence of human activity that may be archeologically significant. The results of a pedestrian study help to inform archaeological teams were to conduct a test pit survey and focus their archaeological investigation across a wide area.
Our Checkered Past: Sites, Landscapes, Trails, and Transect-Recording Unit Survey
Despite advocacy of landscape approaches in cultural resource management (CRM) and critiques of the site concept, CRM data collection methods in the western United States continue to focus on individual archaeological sites as units of observation, analysis, and management. The Read More …
Wilderness Expedition: A Fun Challenge
Sixteen people turned out on Saturday morning, November 4th, in answer to Trails Head Chapter President Bill Bullard’s invitation to our first chapter expedition. Trails Head members met in the Wilderness Park section of northwest Johnson County, Kansas.