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Anomalies Unearthed: Geophysics Results EKU Field School 2025

Presenter Hometown

Louisville

Major

Anthropology

Department

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities

Degree

Undergraduate

Mentor

Kimberly L. Swisher

Mentor Department

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities

Abstract

Kit Carson was a notorious figure within Madison County, Kentucky for both being an American frontiersman and displacing thousands of Native Americans. The EKU Field School students were thus tasked with potentially finding Kit Carson's original cabin by the city of Richmond. To help in the excavation we used geophysical survey methods. Magnetometry, a non-invasive way to see any large disruptions that might still be underground. GPR, also non-invasive, used radar pulses to see the subsurface. Magnetometry cannot be used near metal structures, which is where GPR fills in those gaps. Using both methods together, promising results were yielded

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Anomalies Unearthed: Geophysics Results EKU Field School 2025

Kit Carson was a notorious figure within Madison County, Kentucky for both being an American frontiersman and displacing thousands of Native Americans. The EKU Field School students were thus tasked with potentially finding Kit Carson's original cabin by the city of Richmond. To help in the excavation we used geophysical survey methods. Magnetometry, a non-invasive way to see any large disruptions that might still be underground. GPR, also non-invasive, used radar pulses to see the subsurface. Magnetometry cannot be used near metal structures, which is where GPR fills in those gaps. Using both methods together, promising results were yielded