Soils in archaeological research
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Soils in archaeological research
Oxford University Press, 2004
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-434) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent
and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications
in archaeological research.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Terminology and Methodology
- 3. Conceptual Approaches to Pedogenesis
- 4. Soil Surveys and Archaeology
- 5. Soil Stratigraphy
- 6. Soil-Stratigraphy in Geoarchaeological Contexts
- 7. Soils and Time
- 8. Soils and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
- 9. Soils and Landscape Evolution
- 10. Soil Genesis and Site Formation Processes
- 11. Human Impacts on Soils
- Appendix 1. Variations on U.S.D.A Field Nomenclature
- Appendix 2. Soil Phosphorus: Chemistry, Analytical Methods, and Chronosequences
- Appendix 3. Variability of Soil Laboratory Procedures and Results
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