The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

Anthropogenic dark earth (ADE) is a category of Anthrosols (anthropogenic soils)
characterised by dark colour from homogeneous charcoal inclusion and extraordinary …

Soils are a pivot of sustainable development. Yet, urban planning decisions persist in
compromising the usability of the urban soils resource. Urban land cover expansion to …

Intensified social complexity emerged in some parts of the lowland Maya region during the
Middle Preclassic period (800–300 BC). Though data for Middle Preclassic complexity …

Abstract Mehlich 3 (M3) is the universal extraction procedure used for the analysis of plant
available concentrations of many elements in agricultural and forest soils. We used this …

In the last decade, different soil types have been analysed to evaluate the effect of human
activities from an archaeological point of view. In particular, in the last few years, tremendous …

Over the past thirty years, geoarchaeology has moved from the fringe to mainstream status
within Mesoamerican archaeological investigations. This review focuses on works published …

The aim of the research summarized in this paper was to describe soil properties from
different contexts at an excavated hilltop settlement (subsurface features with artefacts …

Portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) technology can be implemented in soil geochemical
analysis for faster and more efficient testing of trace metals in soils. The level of soil …

Trace and rare earth elements from a sediment core from Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala)
depict the geochemical dynamics affecting the lake from∼ 5500 a BP to the present. This …