MINNESOTA DEEP TEST PROTOCOL PROJECTMarch 16th, 2006
FiledMarch 16th, 2006Commonwealth Cultural Resource Group, Inc. was contracted by the Minnesota Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Unit (CRU) to develop a deep testing protocol to discover buried archaeological sites. Three primary methods were evaluated for their efficacy in finding buried sites and included 1) geophysical survey methods (resistivity, magnetometry, and ground penetrating radar), 2) a combined coring and augering procedure, and 3) backhoe trenching.