Interpolating geochemical patterning of activity zones at Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlements in eastern Hungary

Salisbury, Roderick B.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.009

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“…The results were corrected for spectral interferences. While total extraction using strong acids may compromise the detection of mobile elements (see Salisbury, 2012;Wells, 2004), four acid digestion had already been tested in soils/sediments from Songo Mnara and the results showed patterns of variations associated with past activities as also detected by other indicators (Sulas and Madella, 2012).…”

Section: Geoarchaeological Sampling Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania

Fleisher

Sulas

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Open spaces are an integral part of past urban settlement worldwide. Often large and devoid of visible traces of past activities, these spaces challenge mainstream archaeological approaches to develop methodologies suitable to investigate their history. This study uses geophysical surveys, geochemical sampling and artifact distributions to examine open spaces at the Swahili stonetown of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Initial, geophysical surveys have revealed a set of anomalies associated with activities across the open spaces at the site; a systematic soil/sediment sampling program was applied to map artifact and geochemical distributions across these areas. The spatial relationship between artifact distributions, specific chemical elements, and patterns of anomalies offers a new way to define areas that may have functioned as ‗public spaces' as well as possible activities that were carried out in them. The results suggest that open spaces at this Swahili site contained defined and protected public areas where small-scale production may have occurred.

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Section: Geoarchaeological Sampling Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania

Fleisher

Sulas

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Csárdaszállás 8 is a larger site, covering approximately 7 ha and containing artifacts from several prehistoric periods, with the primary occupation also dating to the Late Neolithic Tisza culture [16]. Geochemical surveys were carried out in 2007-2008 at these and other small Late Neolithic sites in the Körös region as part of a doctoral dissertation project [17][18][19]. New research at Csárdaszállás began in 2011 with a campaign focusing on understanding the prehistoric environment and the relationship between human activity and environmental changes [15].…”

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Preliminary environmental historical results to reconstruct prehistoric human-environmental interactions in Eastern Hungary

2013

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Palaeoenvironmental research is playing an important role in recent archaeological investigations. We present preliminary results of geoarchaeological analyses conducted at a palaeochannel located between two prehistoric archaeological sites in eastern Hungary. The study area lies within the Körös River Basin in Békés County, a region of intensive human occupation beginning in the Neolithic, ca. 7550 BP, and represents only the second palynological analysis done in conjunction with archaeological investigations and adjacent to an archaeological site in the Körös region. Pollen from an environmental monolith was used to reconstruct the local vegetation composition and the human impact on arboreal and non-arboreal vegetation near the archaeological sites. Sediment analyses helped to reconstruct hydrological activity and human impact on the local palaeochannel. Results indicate that activity from the Neolithic onwards played an important role in local environmental change, including increasing sedimentation and deposition of organic matter in the local waterway, some forest clearance and a shift from primarily arboreal vegetation to more grasses on elevated surfaces. The trophic status of the local channel changed several times during the Holocene. In addition, indications that groundwater levels may have been fluctuating during the period of human occupation, when combined with the other changes in the area, provide a possible partial explanation for changing settlement patterns.

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“…The spatial extent of particular activities (e.g. manuring) or land-use types (arable fields, pastures, meadows, or gardens) has also been studied (Entwistle et al 1998;Salisbury 2013).…”

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Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

Horák¹,

Klír²

2017

IANSA

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Interpolating geochemical patterning of activity zones at Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlements in eastern Hungary

Cited by 38 publications

References 30 publications

Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania

Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania

Preliminary environmental historical results to reconstruct prehistoric human-environmental interactions in Eastern Hungary

Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

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