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Rajajil Columns
Geophysics Dataset
This dataset complements the article The Rajajil Columns: employing multi-method geophysical survey to investigate monument construction and use (2025), Antiquity: Project Gallery, Cambridge University Press, by Bryan Hanks and Mesfer Hamad Alqahtani. It provides the results of a multi-instrument geophysical survey in an area of prehistoric stone column constructions in northern Saudi Arabia.
Hanks, Bryan K. (2025) Rajajil Columns Geophysics Dataset. Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.cadb.pitt.edu >.
Funding to collect the data presented here was provided by the Saudi Arabian Heritage Commission and Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
The files below provide the results of geophysical surveys at the Rajajil Columns archaeological site. They provide data on fluxgate gradiometry, low-frequency multi-depth electromagnetic apparent conductivity/susceptibility, and GPR in formats native to the geophysical hardware used, as well as additional file types (e.g. .csv, xyz, etc.) that may be imported and used with other software programs. The two native files types are: