Geoarchaeology

Organisation

Olympic Delivery Authority Wessex Archaeology

Major Project

London 2012

Author

David Norcott -Senior Project Officer, Wessex Archaeology; Michael J Grant - Senior Project Officer, Wessex Archaeology
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Geoarchaeology

Summary

Geoarchaeology is the process by which techniques from the fields of geography, geology and other earth sciences are used to understand and interpret archaeology. At the Olympic Park, a phase of intensive and wide-ranging geoarchaeological investigations revealed a buried landscape, several metres below the modern land surface.

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