Identification of activity areas by soil phosphorus and organic matter analysis in two rooms of the Iberian Sanctuary ?Cerro El Pajarillo?

Recovering social and cultural dynamics from plaster floors: chemical analyses at ancient Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico

“…Since high organic debris is not usually found in bedrooms, and since this room opens toward the kitchen, Room 3 may have been a food storage room. Sanchez Vizcaíno and Cañabate [48] also report high phosphate readings from nooks of food storage rooms.…”

Floor formation processes and the interpretation of site activity areas: An ethnoarchaeological study of turf buildings at Thverá, northeast Iceland

“…Increasingly wary about the reliability of artefact distributions, especially artefacts over 1-2 cm in size, which are most likely to be removed during cleaning events or dumped or cached during abandonment events, the trend has increasingly been to analyse the spatial distributions of the most minute residues: microrefuse (bones and artefacts under 1-2 mm in size), phytoliths, organic residues, elements (especially P and Ca), and stable isotopes (especially N and C), and to use multiple overlapping datasets whenever possible (e.g. Fladmark, 1982;Metcalfe and Heath, 1990;Middleton and Price, 1996;Sanchez Vizcaíno and Cañabate, 1999;Sampietro and Vattuone, 2005;Shahack-Gross et al, 2008;Sherwood et al, 1995;Smith et al, 2001;Stein and Teltser, 1989;Sullivan and Kealhofer, 2004;Terry et al, 2004;Wilson et al, 2005Wilson et al, , 2008.…”

Beyond the buildings: Formation processes of ancient Maya houselots and methods for the study of non-architectural space

“…Many household archaeologists now realize that studies of activity areas cannot rely solely on macroartifacts (Barba and Manzanilla, 1987;Hastorf, 1999;Hastorf and Johannessen, 1991;Manzanilla and Barba, 1990;Middleton and Price, 1996;Moore and Denton, 1988;Parnell et al, 2002a,b;Pearsall, 2000;Robin, 2002;Sanchez Vizcaíno and Cañabate, 1999;Schuldenrein, 1995;Shott, 1989;Terry et al, 2004). This is particularly true of research beyond the buildings where, due to the vastness of open space, preserved macroartifacts are few and far between.…”