Anomalies Unearthed: Geophysics Results EKU Field School 2025

Author

• Finn Gosnell, Eastern Kentucky UniversityFollow
• Daisy Adams, Eastern Kentucky University
• Aaron Comstock, University of Louisville
• Kamryn Duff, Eastern Kentucky University
• Jon Endonino, Eastern Kentucky University
• Claiborne D. Sea, ArchaeoSpatial Analytics Inc.
• Kimberly L. Swisher, Eastern Kentucky University

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Creation Date

2025

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 and throughout the United States for his role as an American frontiersman and his violence against Native Americans. The EKU Field School was tasked by the City of Richmond, Kentucky with locating Kit Carson’s birth cabin and other occupational evidence. To help in this work, multiple geophysical survey methods such as Magnetic gradiometry and GPR were used to potentially identify buried cultural remains. This multi-method approach proved beneficial as together, these methods yielded promising results that guided subsequent excavations.