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The archaeological site at Stoddartsville,
PA is in a picturesque setting adjacent to
the Lehigh River in the Poconos. Dr.
Khori Newlander of the
Anthropology/Sociology Department at KU
established a field site at this location
for his
archaeology field school in summer
2015. Dr. Newlander invited KU's
geophysicist, Dr. Laura Sherrod, to the site
to give his students experience with
geophysical methods as well as to pinpoint
target areas for excavations during the
four-week course. Dr. Sherrod and GSKU
were invited back to the site in 2016 to
provide additional geophysical surveying to
guide future excavations and to locate
unmarked burials in the cemetery adjacent to
the 2015 field site.
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Ruins of a mill located at the Falls of the
Lehigh
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Dr. Newlander (right) carries field
equipment while his students (left) perform
the GPR survey
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Two geophysical methods,
magnetometry
and ground
penetrating radar (GPR) were used at the
site under the instruction of Dr. Sherrod,
with the help of Geology major, David Vales. A large grid of 55m x
65m was
established at the cemetery on the hill slope
beside the road. East-west survey lines were performed
every 0.5m across the site, with archaeology
students operating the equipment.
The geophysical surveys were conducted over
the course of three days of field work in
June 2016.
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