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Control what survives in the burial environment
- Soil and sediment conditions control what survives in the burial environment, what decomposes, and consequently influence all archaeological sites, artefacts, and ecological remains.
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Mar 21, 2014 · The present contribution demonstrated the importance of buried paleosols within geoarchaeological research and emphasised the significance of the study of soil field and lab parameters, phytoliths and archaeological artifacts for the interpretation of environmental changes, shown by the examples of the Ueckermunder Heide/Germany and Yeha/Ethiopia.
- Dana Pietsch, Peter Kühn
- 2017
Dec 1, 2010 · Such work is important because archaeological earthworks may preserve buried soils, which could provide clues to the climate and land-use of former landscapes. Without understanding how these signatures might be altered by the burial process, it would be impossible to decode the buried soil archive.
- Helen Walkington
- 2010
May 19, 2016 · A buried soil or paleosol is indicated by the prefix paleo- to the great group designation such as a buried aquoll (a wet mollisol) termed a paleoudoll. In fluvial contexts, multiple paleosol sequences are very possible (see “Allostratigraphy” (Sect. 7.1 )).
- Ervan Garrison
- 2016
The aim of this short guide is to outline the importance of soils in archaeological sites and to provide the readers with a better understanding of how soils can help understand site formation process and provide a chronology for human occupation and activities in situ.
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That section is followed by a closer look at soil stratigraphy, including a summary of both formal and informal soil stratigraphic nomenclature as well as a discussion of the unique characteristics of soils when used as stratigraphic markers and their archaeological implications.
Soils are a potential source of much information in archaeological studies on site-and feature-specific scales as well as on a regional scale. Soils are a part of the stage on which humans have evolved. As an integral component of most natural landscapes, soils also are an integral component of cultural landscapes.
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Apr 22, 2004 · A morphologically distinctive soil formed during floodplain stability ∼2000 to ∼1000yr B.P., however, and it is a geoarchaeologically important marker bed throughout the region. In buried positions it has an A-C profile with cumulic A horizon.
