Soils in archaeological research / by Vance T. Holliday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holliday, Vance T.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soil science in archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications in archaeological research.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Terminology and Methodology; 3 Conceptual Approaches to Pedogenesis; 4 Soil Surveys and Archaeology; 5 Soil Stratigraphy; 6 Soil Stratigraphy in Geoarchaeological Contexts; 7 Soils and Time; 8 Soils and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions; 9 Soils and Landscape Evolution; 10 Soil Genesis and Site-Formation Processes; 11 Human Impacts on Soils; Appendix 1: Variations on U.S. Department of Agriculture Field Nomenclature; Appendix 2: Soil Phosphorus: Chemistry, Analytical Methods, and Chronosequences; Appendix 3: Variability of Soil Laboratory Procedures and Results; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756187-X

0-19-988208-8

1-280-48203-6

1-4237-6151-0

0-19-534881-8

1-4337-0113-8

OCLC:

65192929