Since the influential work of Michael B. Schiffer on formation processes has been published
in 1987, much has advanced on the part of environmental formation processes also known …

Unfired and fired bricks were widely used as building materials in Antiquity across many
geographically and temporally distant cultures. Studies on archaeological bricks have long …

Earth building materials are often identified in the field, but very few microscopic studies
focus on the identification of the technological processes, which produced them, especially …

La importancia del empleo de la tierra en las actividades constructivas de las sociedades
del pasado y la gran la capacidad informativa de sus evidencias arqueológicas hacen …

Sun-dried mud bricks are used around the world and have been found in the Levant and
Mesopotamia since the Neolithic period. Their form and composition lend important …

Raw materials used for earth construction materials depend on local soil and sediment
resources available in each locality. Two groups of techniques are usually distinguished in …

Archaeological deposits are often complex and illustrative of an intricate interplay between
geogenic and anthropogenic inputs and formation processes. Even for those archaeologists …

This paper presents direct evidence for cereal storage by Neolithic farmers in west Asia.
Storage features analyzed this study are circular clay bins that frequently occur at Neolithic …

This article illustrates how changes in the use of vegetal temper in Bronze Age earthen
architecture in Crete are a key line of evidence for investigating the appearance of …

During the ongoing excavations of Area Q at Tel Megiddo, a variety of on-site
geoarchaeological analytical methods have been used in the study of Iron Age occupations …