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Russian Geology and Geophysics

2016 year, number 3

INTEGRATED ARCHEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES IN WEST SIBERIA

M.I. Epov1,2, V.I. Molodin3, A.K. Manshtein1, E.V. Balkov1, P.G. Dyad’kov1, G.G. Matasova1, A.Yu. Kazansky3, S.B. Bortnikova1, O.A. Pozdnyakova3, Yu.G. Karin1, D.A. Kuleshov1
1A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
2Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
3Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent'eva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Археология, метод сопротивлений, электромагнитное профилирование, магнитометрия, Archeology, resistivity method, electromagnetic profiling, magnetometry

Abstract

We present the most informative results of archeological and geophysical field studies of the Baraba forest-steppe over the last three years. The studies were carried out for archeological sites of different types belonging to a wide time interval (~6000 BC-2000 AD). Data on the presence, size, and configuration of archeologic objects were obtained by magnetometry and electrometry. We studied contrast between the magnetic properties of the upper horizon of present-day soil and underlying substratum at archeologic sites of different types and ages. Low contrast reduces the amplitudes of magnetic anomalies above buried ancient structures. It is shown that geoelectric methods are efficient in cases when magnetometry is not.