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Gpr Investigation of Ancient Copper Mines of Bronze Age in the Urals
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, Engineering and Mining Geophysics 2019 15th Conference and Exhibition, Apr 2019, Volume 2019, p.1 - 8
Abstract
Geophysical methods have become an integral part of research in archeology. Their main advantage is that they allow you to study buried monuments without destroying the soil layer and provide an opportunity to more purposefully determine the place of future costly and laborious excavations of archaeologists. In the steppe zone of the Southern Urals and Mugodzhar about three dozen different types of copper mines are known, the development of which took place in the Bronze Age. At the present time the walls of the quarries have become destroyed and the bottom is covered with a thick layer of sediments. To study these quarries, it is important to determine the relief of quarries and localize ore mining sites during their operation. This makes it possible to assess the amount of ore mined and amount of copper smelted. Separation by GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) of reflected boundaries between loose deposits and rock formations of the copper quarry of the Bronze Age of Chelabinskaya oblast in South Ural, the construction of a three-dimensional model of an ancient quarry and the localization of ore extraction.