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RETRACTED: Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia

Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Andang Bachtiar, Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko et al., 2023. Archaeological Prospection 31.

The claim at the centre of the modern controversy. Combines surface exposures, trenches, cores, ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and seismic tomography to argue for multi-layer construction 20 to 30 m deep, hidden chambers, and a first construction phase in the Palaeolithic, dated by radiocarbon on organic soils.

MYS0D32CBK250HV · mystery · click to copyMGunung PadangArticleCopy of Geophysical surveys of the hill, 2011 to 2015 (ERT, GPR and seismic tomography)doi: 10.1002/arp.1912Checked against the original0

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The source of the four-unit "buried pyramid" model and of the geophysical profiles and soil dates.

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Natawidjaja, D. H., Bachtiar, A., Nurhandoko, B. E. B., Akbar, A., Purajatnika, P., Daryono, M. R., Wardhana, D. D., Subandriyo, A. S., Krisyunianto, A., Tagyuddin, Ontowiryo, B., & Maulana, Y. (2023). RETRACTED: Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia. Archaeological Prospection 31. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1912
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