The surface archaeological record in arid Australia: Geomorphic controls on preservation, exposure, and visibility

Fanning, Patricia; Holdaway, Simon; Rhodes, Ed; Bryant, Tessa

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“…Estos conjuntos líticos (como los restantes componentes del registro arqueológico) no son producto de un único evento ocupacional, sino resultado de varios eventos a lo largo del tiempo. Teniendo en cuenta que los artefactos que componen gran parte de estos conjuntos representan el 'descarte' de numerosos eventos, es fá-cil imaginar la acumulación de estos conjuntos como resultado de diversas y diferentes ocupaciones o usos de un lugar (time-averaging) (Stern 1994;Holdaway y Wandsnider 2006;Fanning et al 2009). …”

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El Palimpsesto Como Una Puerta De Acceso a Diferentes Temporalidades: El Caso De Río Las Salinas 2 (Tucumán, Argentina)

Somonte

Baied

2017

Estud. atacam.

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El palimpsesto como una puerta de acceso a diferentes temporalidades: el caso de Río Las Salinas 2 (Tucumán, Argentina) ResumenEn este trabajo discutimos la utilidad del concepto de palimpsesto como herramienta teórico-metodológica en la descomposición del paisaje arqueológico en unidades analíticas apropiadas para la evaluación de la variabilidad en las historias de uso del espacio. Se tuvieron en cuenta indicadores de condiciones de estabilidad a escalas del paisaje y de los artefactos en RLS2. Desde el paisaje, evaluamos procesos geomorfológicos de las superficies y del pavimento donde se encuentran depositados los conjuntos líticos. A nivel de artefactos consideramos análisis tipológicos, los efectos de alteraciones post-depositacionales en las rocas y tareas de ensamblaje. Ello nos permitió detectar condiciones de mayor y menor estabilidad, asociadas a un pavimento con grados variables de madurez sobre los que actúan procesos naturales que, en conjunto, repercuten sobre las condiciones de hallazgo. En un extremo, asociamos la estabilidad a sectores donde el pavimento muestra cierto grado de preservación, con un correlato a escala del artefacto donde el barniz de las rocas y el ensamblaje la ratifican. En el extremo opuesto, detectamos condiciones de inestabilidad que resultan de procesos erosivos en sectores donde el pavimento muestra distintos grados de deterioro hasta su total desaparición, sugiriendo las distintas condiciones a las que estuvieron expuestos los materiales arqueológicos. Palabras claves:Estabilidad del paisaje -conjuntos artefactuales líticos -arqueología -geoarqueología. AbstractIn order to evaluate variability in land-use histories we discuss the usefulness of the concept of palimpsest as a theoretical-methodological tool that can be used to analyze and break up archaeological landscape structures into suitable analytical units. Through a case study we assess indicators of stability at both the landscape and artifact levels. At the landscape level, we discussed geomorphological processes operating at the site, focusing particularly at desert pavement. At the artifact level we apply typological analysis and looked into the effects of post-depositional alterations in rocks and artifacts. Research results suggest both conditions of greater and lesser stability associated to desert pavement that shows differential degrees of maturity shaping discovery conditions. At one end, stability is associated to places where pavement shows a certain degree of preservation, with a correlate at scale of the artifact where rock varnish and the possibility of artifact refitting supports stability. At the other end, we identified conditions of instability, marked by erosion processes operating in areas where pavement is partially to completely deteriorate. In between these ends, a variety of hues in pavement preservation speaks to de differential conditions to which artifacts were exposed.

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El Palimpsesto Como Una Puerta De Acceso a Diferentes Temporalidades: El Caso De Río Las Salinas 2 (Tucumán, Argentina)

Somonte

Baied

2017

Estud. atacam.

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“…As sediments surrounding a hearth erode away, hearths appear as dense piles or caps of fired rock that eventually disintegrate as the baked earth holding them together is winnowed away. Sometimes, these caps protect charcoal which can be used to provide a radiometric date (Fanning et al, 2009).…”

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Weaving the Common Threads of Simulation and Formation studies in Archaeology

Davies¹

2017

Preprint

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Computer simulation is a tool increasingly used by archaeologists to build theories about past human activity; however, simulation has had a limited role theorising about the relationship between past behaviours and the formation of observed patterning in the material record. This paper visits the argument for using simulation as a means of addressing the gap that exists between archaeological interpretations of past behaviours and their physical residues. It is argued that simulation is used for much the same reason that archaeologists use ethnographic or experimental studies, and that computational models can help to address some of the practical limitations of these approaches to record formation. A case study from arid Australia, examining the effects of episodic surface erosion on the visibility of the record, shows how simple, generative simulations, grounded in formational logic, can be used to compare different explanatory mechanisms and suggest tests of the archaeological record itself.

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“…284 · landscape archaeology between art and science of the magnetic field over the hearth, obtained using a fluxgate gradiometer (Fanning et al 2009b), with that of the surrounding land surface. A sub-sample of 256 hearths was excavated to obtain charcoal samples, with about one third of these yielding sufficient charcoal for radiocarbon age determinations.…”

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Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science : From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach

Kluiving¹,

Guttmann-Bond²

2012

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The publication of this book is made possible by grants from: All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book.Every effort had been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book.Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. PrefaceSince the 1960s, 'landscape' has been a key topic of archaeological research all over the world. Initially drawing on environmental archaeology, and using models from the earth sciences as well as cultural ecology, landscapes have been conceptualised predominantly as the natural environments determining human behaviour or as a backdrop to human action. In the New Archaeology of the 1960s, ecology and settlement patterns were studied together with anthropology, with the aim of piecing together information on past economic and social systems (Trigger 1989, 295). Lewis Binford argued that the goal of archaeology should be to understand the range of human behaviours and the differences in culture, based on a belief that cultures were adaptive responses to our environment (Binford 1962), and archaeologists at the time were optimistic that culture and culture change were rational and could be predicted based on archaeological assemblages and settlement patterns.In This volume will begin with a discussion of Landscape Archaeology and its history, followed by a discussion of themes and summaries of the papers in this volume. We end with some concluding remarks 10 · landscape archaeology between art and science and suggestions for future research. Although the editors have put a lot of energy into editing the text of this volume, please note that many contributors are writing in English as a second language. We have endeavoured to smooth out the English, but we apologise for the awkwardness of some phrasing in the text.All 35 papers of the LAC2010 proceedings have been peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. The editors have approached a large number of peer reviewers within the participating institution within the VU University, the Cultural Heritage Agency and the international Advisory Board of LAC2010. We wish to thank the following colleagues who have made the realisation of the proceedings of LAC2010 possible.

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The surface archaeological record in arid Australia: Geomorphic controls on preservation, exposure, and visibility

Cited by 66 publications

References 35 publications

El Palimpsesto Como Una Puerta De Acceso a Diferentes Temporalidades: El Caso De Río Las Salinas 2 (Tucumán, Argentina)

El Palimpsesto Como Una Puerta De Acceso a Diferentes Temporalidades: El Caso De Río Las Salinas 2 (Tucumán, Argentina)

Weaving the Common Threads of Simulation and Formation studies in Archaeology

Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science : From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach

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