GPR Survey in Coastal Sambaqui Archaeological Site in Santa Catarina State, Brazil

In this work some GPR results obtained in coastal sambaqui Jabuticabeira II are presented. Jabuticabeira II is located in Santa Catarina State, South of Brazil. GPR profiles show interesting anomalous reflectors, which can be related to targets of archaeological interest. 2D FDTD modelling studies presented good accordance with real data obtained in the field. Synthetic model has been constructed in order to evaluate the performance of GPR method in relation to materials found in that environment, besides helping interpretations of real results. So, GPR results function as reference guide to direct excavation activities in buried archaeological, and geological structures, a task that will be the next step of this research.