A short review of the use of geophysical prospection methods in Swedish archaeology

Abstract

IntroductionGeophysical prospection has a long history in Sweden, searching for ore bodies and investigating geology, connected to Sweden’s long mining traditions. In archaeology the situation has been quite the opposite. Swedish archaeologists have generally been quite skeptic to use geophysical methods, and as a consequence only a handful geophysical prospection surveys has been conducted each year since the late 1970s. However the last years have seen a shift in the trend with an increasing u (...)