Because of the flourishing vegetation and developed agriculture in East China,it is difficult to extract information of small-scale archaeological sites from remote sensing image only based on spectral analysis of features.This article presents an evaluation of the viability of SPOT satellite imagery in detecting mound-shaped archaeological sites in Zhegao River Valley in the northeast of Chaohu area.Initial studies have shown evidence of a prominent palaeochannel river system,which has become buried under land cover of western Zhegao River Valley sometime during late Holocene.1: 50000 digital topographic maps could be highly effective in determining mound-shaped sites and their elevation in study zones.These mound-shaped sites includes known and unknown small-scare archaeological sites of the Neolithic and Pre-Qin periods.Database of 7 known small-scare archaeological sites compiled from various published sources,prepared in GIS environment could be utilised to understand their relationship with identified courses of palaeochannels.Through this study and multi-source data integration,3 likely archaeological sites were identified from many moundshaped sites and tested by field investigations with the Administration Place of Culture Relic of Chaohu City.This new method strengthens the use of multispectral imagery in archaeological survey of subtropical agricultural region.It was found that there is a close relationship between small-scare archaeological sites and palaeochannels,and suggested that other raised mounds adjoining the identified palaeochannel courses may be taken up for further archaeological exploration.