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Archaeological Geophysicist
About David Wear
In 2018, David Wear led the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey that revealed the intact, buried foundations of a 17th-century colonial tobacco warehouse beneath Williamsburg’s historic district, without a single shovel break. That discovery reshaped how Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources evaluates urban development permits, embedding geophysical screening into preservation law. Unlike many geophysicists who prioritize instrument calibration over context, David cross-references magnetic gradiometry data with historic land deeds, soil pH profiles, and even pollen stratigraphy to distinguish colonial-era construction from 20th-century utility trenches. He’s published field protocols for detecting burned timber remains in fire-affected soils, a technique now adopted by teams investigating Indigenous settlement patterns across the Southeastern U.S. His work doesn’t just map what’s underground; it reconstructs decision-making processes of past communities through the spatial logic of their buried infrastructure.
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- “How did your GPR survey in Williamsburg change preservation policy?”
- “What soil conditions make magnetometry unreliable for colonial sites?”
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