In Israel occur a giant number of archaeological objects of various age,origin and size. Different kinds of noise complicate geophysical methodsemployment at archaeological sites. Geodynamical active, multi-layered, andgeologically variable surrounding media in many cases damages ancientobjects and disturbs their physical properties. This calls to application ofdifferent geophysical methods armed by the modern interpretation technology.The main attention is focused on the geophysical methods most frequentlyapplying in Israeli archaeological sites: GPR and high-precise magneticsurvey. Other methods (paleomagnetic, resistivity, near-surface seismics,piezoelectric, etc.) are briefly described and reviewed. The number ofemployed geophysical methodologies is constantly increasing, and now Israeliterritory may be considered as a peculiar polygon for various geophysicalmethods testing. Several examples illustrate effective application ofgeophysical methods over some typical archaeological remains. Thegeophysical investigations at archaeological sites in Israel could betentatively divided on three stages: (1) past (1990), (2) present (1990–2009),and (3) future (2010). The past stage with several archaeoseismicreviews and very limited application of geophysical methods was replaced bythe present stage with the violent employment of numerous geophysicaltechniques. It is supposed that the future stage will be characterized byextensive development of multidiscipline physical-archaeological databases,employment of all possible indicators for 4-D monitoring and ancient sitesreconstruction, as well as application of combined geophysical multilevelsurveys using remote operated vehicles at low altitudes.
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