ABSTRACT
This chapter presents two studies where GPR was used to test ideas about the past in ways not possible using any other method, whether geophysical or archaeological. When GPR results are integrated with other data from standard archaeological methods, they fit nicely into the quantitative and scientific approach of studying many aspects of ancient life. When hypotheses about ancient people can be related directly to the extent, orientation, or geometry of buried architecture and associated anthropogenic features, geophysics can be used to directly support or refute hypotheses about the human past. Social change, technological innovations, and ecological adaptations can potentially be studied based on the orientation, layout, and change of buried features that are visible using GPR data. The GPR images, when correlated to limited excavation information, produced images of these two buried landscapes and the structures built on them, in ways not possible with any other archaeological method except perhaps massive excavations.
