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World War II Prisoners Tunnels Discovered with GPR

September 13, 2007 rockman Geoarchaeology Comments Off on World War II Prisoners Tunnels Discovered with GPR

Remember the 1963 movie "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen, James Gardner, and Charles Bronson about Allied prisoners planning a mass escape from a German POW Camp? Ok, me neither, but in the movie, the prisoners dug 3 tunnels to escape from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Zagan (formerly in East Germany, now in Poland). A recent archeology study used ground penetrading radar or GPR to uncover not 3 but over 100 different tunnels. Read more…

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Figure from Coastal and Ancient Harbour Archaeology
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Geology of Ancient Mediterranean Harbors – Studying Sediments for Clues to the Past

February 18, 2010 rockman Geoarchaeology Comments Off on Geology of Ancient Mediterranean Harbors – Studying Sediments for Clues to the Past

Geoarchaeology is a fascinating application of geologic tools and disciplines, and I came across a post on the Through the Sandglass blog about a Geology Today article on “Coastal and ancient harbour archaeology”. In a […]