Estimating Tillage Effects on Artifact Distributions

Odell, George H.; Cowan, Frank L.

doi:10.2307/281594

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“…Disturbed land (e.g., cultivated fields) would be preferred because it is more likely that sites have already been disturbed or destroyed. (However, it should be noted that several recent studies have found the extent of damage caused by agricultural activity to archaeological sites to be less than previously thought [e.g., McManamon 1984;Odell and Cowan 1987]. )…”

Section: Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 77%

Environmental Impact Statement, Auxiliary Airfield for Williams Air Force Base, Arizona

WASHINGTON¹

1989

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Section: Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 77%

Environmental Impact Statement, Auxiliary Airfield for Williams Air Force Base, Arizona

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1989

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“…This offset can be interpreted as the result of post-depositional processes such as plowing or soil erosion, in which sherds move laterally away from their original deposition location (Dunnell and Simek 1995;Odell and Cowan 1987;Roper 1976), but that does not explain why scatters appear only to one side of an anomaly instead of distributed across it. Therefore, it seems more plausible that the offset reflects a specific spatial arrangement, with the sherds on the surface coming from refuse heaps or workspaces outside the buildings themselves (FIGURE 6).…”

Section: Case Study 1: Late Bronze Age Settlement In the Foothillsmentioning

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Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy)

Neef¹,

Armstrong²,

Leusen³

2017

Journal of Field Archaeology

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article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Groningen, the Netherlands ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of an in-depth multidisciplinary restudy of small Metal Age surface scatters recorded in earlier fieldwalking surveys in northern Calabria (Italy). Guided by a stratified sampling approach based on site types and topographic positions, high-resolution surface collections at the selected sites were combined with geophysical surveys, test pits, and soil studies to investigate both archaeological deposits and the site formation processes that have an effect on their detectability. This approach is shown to result in a better definition of archaeological 'sites', and to help fill in details of regional exploitation and settlement dynamics at the landscape scale. At this broader scale we are also able to model post-depositional processes and slope dynamics affecting the preservation of the archaeological record. With regard to methodology, our study has enabled the evaluation of diverse archaeological detection methods and the fine-tuning of field strategies for the study of Metal Age remains.

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“…On the other, it reduces the resolution of spatial patterning. Still, artifacts do not seem to move far from their positions before plowing, and the rate at which they disperse from their orig-inal locations rapidly decreases with time (Cowan and Odell, 1990;Odell and Cowan, 1987;Steinberg, 1996). The pervasive terracing throughout the valley presents similarly positive and negative aspects for the archaeological record.…”

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Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean

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The Polop Alto valley, in eastern Spain, is characteristic of many Mediterranean landscapes. It has been sporadically reoccupied over the course of at least 80 kyr. Its landforms have undergone various geomorphic processes resulting from late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. During the Holocene, the valley has been modified by millennia of extensive land clearance, cultivation, and terracing. As a result, the evidence for human activity and landuse is a cumulative, but discontiguous palimpsest of the most durable behavioral residuesprimarily stone and ceramic artifacts-whose distributions have been affected by diverse natural and cultural formation processes. Human occupation of the Polop Alto spans the evolution of morphologically modern humans and the replacement of foraging economies by farming, arguably the two most significant biobehavioral transitions for human life today. To better understand the changes in human landuse that accompanied these important transitions, we have employed an integrated suite of techniques aimed at unmixing the diverse formation processes that have affected Polop Alto landscapes and material culture. These include patch-based survey methods, photogrammetry, GIS-based spatial analysis, and using artifact morphology and distribution to assess artifact taphonomy. This has permitted us to develop a diachronic settlement model for the 80 kyr of human occupation in the Polop Alto.

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Estimating Tillage Effects on Artifact Distributions

Cited by 80 publications

References 20 publications

Environmental Impact Statement, Auxiliary Airfield for Williams Air Force Base, Arizona

Environmental Impact Statement, Auxiliary Airfield for Williams Air Force Base, Arizona

Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy)

Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean

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