Making the most of soils in archaeology. A review

RB Salisbury, ID Bull, S Cereda, E Draganits… - Archaeologia …, 2022 - JSTOR
Sediments serve as an archive of human and animal activity and environmental conditions
through their physical and chemical properties as well as captured biological traces …

Large‐scale geochemical survey by pXRF spectrometry of archaeological settlements and features: New perspectives on the method

S Save, J Kovacik, F Demarly‐Cresp… - Archaeological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past several decades the geochemical study of archaeological sediments has
experienced an increase in interest from archaeologists in search of new methods to …

Neolithic long barrows were built on the margins of settlement zones as revealed by elemental soil analysis at four sites in the Czech Republic

P Krištuf, MP Janovský, J Turek, J Horák… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Past human activities can be reflected in the elemental composition of contemporary soils.
The paper is tackling the problem whether it is possible to distinguish prehistoric residential …

Preliminary ethnoarchaeological research on modern animal husbandry in Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan: integrating animal, plant and environmental data

S Elliott, R Bendrey, J Whitlam, KR Aziz… - Environmental …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents preliminary results from an ethnoarchaeological study of animal
husbandry in the modern village of Bestansur, situated in the lower Zagros Mountains of …

What questions can be answered by chemical analysis of recent and paleosols from the Bell Beaker barrow (2500–2200 BC), Central Moravia, Czech Republic?

M Hejcman, K Součková, P Krištuf, J Peška - Quaternary International, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Short-term medieval settlement activities irreversibly changed forest soils and vegetation in Central Europe

M Hejcman, P Karlík, J Ondráček, T Klír - Ecosystems, 2013 - Springer
In Europe, many contemporary forests are not continuous, but were established on former
agricultural land in territories of deserted villages. We aimed to explore whether medieval …

Parameters in the use of pXRF for archaeological site prospection: a case study at the Reaume Fort Site, Central Minnesota

K Hayes - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Field portable/hand-held x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyzers have been characterized as
potentially useful for archaeological site prospection, but little has been published on the …

Prehistoric settlement activities changed soil pH, nutrient availability, and growth of contemporary crops in Central Europe

M Hejcman, K Součková, M Gojda - Plant and Soil, 2013 - Springer
Background and aims How prehistoric human settlement activities have changed soil
chemical properties, plant nutrition and growth of contemporary crops is a question that has …

Minimally invasive research strategies in huron-wendat archaeology: working toward a sustainable archaeology

B Glencross, G Warrick, E Eastaugh… - Advances in …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The rapid pace of economic, political, and social change over the past 150 years has framed
and reframed archaeological practice in Ontario. Indigenous groups have become …

Analysis of carbon, nitrogen, pH, phosphorus, and carbonates as tools in geoarchaeological research

MF Kolb - Encyclopedia of geoarchaeology, 2023 - Springer
In the context of archaeological research, soil/deposit chemical analysis should be viewed
as an additional data set or tool for interpreting the archaeological record. Because chemical …