Soils in archaeological research / by Vance T. Holliday.

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Holliday, Vance T [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1423761510
9781423761518
1433701138
9781433701139
1280482036
9781280482038
9780195149654
0195149653
9780195348811
0195348818
9786610482030
6610482039
0199882088
9780199882083

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Soils in archaeological research.DDC classification:

930.1/028 22

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CC79.S6 H65 2004eb

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Contents:

Terminology and methodology -- Conceptual approaches to pedogenesis -- Soil surveys and archaeology -- Soil stratigraphy -- Soil stratigraphy in geoarchaeological contexts -- Soils and time -- Soils and paleoenvironmental reconstructions -- Soils and landscape evolution -- Soil genesis and site-formation processes -- Human impacts on soils.

Summary: Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. In this book, the author addresses each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-415) and index.

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. In this book, the author addresses each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world.