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Predicting Buried Archaeological Heritage in a 3D Environment—Modelling the Urban Subsurface Using Voxels
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70014
Kirstine Haase, Tom Martlev Pallesen, Søren M. Sindbæk, Søren M. Kristiansen
{"title":"Predicting Buried Archaeological Heritage in a 3D Environment—Modelling the Urban Subsurface Using Voxels","authors":"Kirstine Haase,&nbsp;Tom Martlev Pallesen,&nbsp;Søren M. Sindbæk,&nbsp;Søren M. Kristiansen","doi":"10.1002/gea.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study uses the medieval city of Odense, Denmark, to explore the potential of voxel-based modelling for archaeological heritage management in urban environments. The article highlights the challenges urban development poses to buried cultural heritage and the limitations of current monitoring techniques. By integrating recent and legacy archaeological and geological data, the study demonstrates the advantages of voxel models over traditional 2D and pseudo-3D models. Voxel models provide a more accurate representation of the volume and preservation state of cultural layers, allowing for better assessment and management of archaeological deposits. The findings reveal that modern construction activities significantly affect Odense's subsurface, diminishing the volume of preserved cultural layers. The study highlights the importance of systematic data collection and the need for better accessibility and interoperability of archaeological and geotechnical data. Recommendations include digitising analogue records and establishing national databases to enhance data sharing and preservation efforts. Overall, we advocate for adopting voxel-based modelling as a standard practice in heritage management, emphasising its potential to enhance the preservation and understanding of urban archaeological deposits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Socio-Cultural Connectivity Along the Zagros Mountains: A SEM-EDS Study of Rare Neolithic Obsidian Artifacts From the Kohgiluyeh Region (Southwest Iran) 扎格罗斯山脉的社会文化连通性:伊朗西南部Kohgiluyeh地区罕见新石器时代黑曜石文物的SEM-EDS研究
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70013
Daniele Moscone, Mauro Pallara, Ahmad Azadi, Pasquale Acquafredda, Andrea Ricci
{"title":"Socio-Cultural Connectivity Along the Zagros Mountains: A SEM-EDS Study of Rare Neolithic Obsidian Artifacts From the Kohgiluyeh Region (Southwest Iran)","authors":"Daniele Moscone,&nbsp;Mauro Pallara,&nbsp;Ahmad Azadi,&nbsp;Pasquale Acquafredda,&nbsp;Andrea Ricci","doi":"10.1002/gea.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent archaeological investigations in the Kohgiluyeh region of southwestern Iran revealed numerous Neolithic sites along with diverse settlement strategies adapted to the local resources and environmental conditions of this high mountainous stretch of the Zagros Mountains. The regional Neolithic chipped stone collections mainly indicate the acquisition and use of local mineral resources, with obsidian being uncommon. Its occurrence suggests the existence of long-distance acquisition and/or distribution networks. This study presents a provenance analysis of two rare obsidian artifacts recovered during intensive surveys in the Kohgiluyeh region. Using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), we characterized the obsidian samples and determined their elemental compositions for source attribution. The results of these analyses indicate that the two artifacts originated from two distinct source areas in southeastern Anatolia: the Nemrut Dağ and Bingöl-A volcanic complexes. These findings provide evidence to reconstruct socio-cultural interactions between Neolithic communities along the Zagros Mountains and improve our understanding of settlement strategies in the southern Zagros region during the early stages of sedentism.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Integrating Geomorphology, Geology, and Geochemical Parameters to Understand the Preservation Status and Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Iron Objects Related to the 235 ce Roman–Germanic Harzhorn Conflict (Lower Saxony, Germany) 结合地貌、地质和地球化学参数了解235 ce罗马-日耳曼哈尔霍恩冲突(德国下萨克森州)考古铁器的保存状况和空间分布
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70012
Jacob Hardt, Moritz Nykamp, Torben Schatte, Lena Schimmel, Michael Meyer, Michael Geschwinde, Petra Lönne, Philipp Hoelzmann
{"title":"Integrating Geomorphology, Geology, and Geochemical Parameters to Understand the Preservation Status and Spatial Distribution of Archaeological Iron Objects Related to the 235 ce Roman–Germanic Harzhorn Conflict (Lower Saxony, Germany)","authors":"Jacob Hardt,&nbsp;Moritz Nykamp,&nbsp;Torben Schatte,&nbsp;Lena Schimmel,&nbsp;Michael Meyer,&nbsp;Michael Geschwinde,&nbsp;Petra Lönne,&nbsp;Philipp Hoelzmann","doi":"10.1002/gea.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With more than 2000 excavated archaeological iron artifacts, the Roman–Germanic conflict site <i>Harzhorn</i> is among the best-preserved battlefields from Classical Antiquity. The Harzhorn hogback, with its steep front face oriented to the north, is situated perpendicular to an important north–south passage west of the Harz Mountains in central Germany. The geological setting shows abrupt transitions at the surface between different Triassic and Quaternary deposits. To investigate possible relationships between the preservation status and detection probability of iron artifacts and geology, geomorphology, and properties of the substratum, 497 samples were investigated in terms of the pH value, electric conductivity, loss on ignition, and grain size. These parameters were systematically compared to the distribution, type, and preservation status of recovered iron objects. The pH value proved to be the most significant indicator for the preservation status. Within increasingly acidic environments, the iron objects showed severe corrosion damages, whereas the same type of objects showed a good preservation status when recovered from areas with more neutral pH values. Additionally, historical and modern human impacts on the landscape modified the distribution of finds. We mapped in detail areas with good, intermediate, and poor preservation conditions, which should be considered in the reconstruction of the battle.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143904885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Geoarchaeology of Agricultural Terraces in Europe: Construction, Resilience and Implications for Sediment Delivery 欧洲农业梯田的地质考古学:结构、恢复力和沉积物输送的含义
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70008
Antony G. Brown, Ben Pears, Sara Cucchiaro, Paolo Tarolli, Andreas Lang, Pengzhi Zhao, Kevin Walsh, Kristof Van Ost, Rosa-Maria Albert, Monica A. Eguiluz, Leonides Vokotopoulos, Georgia Tsartsidou, Allesandro Molinari, Anna Stagno, Sabina Ghislandi, Wei Wei, Daniel Fallu
{"title":"The Geoarchaeology of Agricultural Terraces in Europe: Construction, Resilience and Implications for Sediment Delivery","authors":"Antony G. Brown,&nbsp;Ben Pears,&nbsp;Sara Cucchiaro,&nbsp;Paolo Tarolli,&nbsp;Andreas Lang,&nbsp;Pengzhi Zhao,&nbsp;Kevin Walsh,&nbsp;Kristof Van Ost,&nbsp;Rosa-Maria Albert,&nbsp;Monica A. Eguiluz,&nbsp;Leonides Vokotopoulos,&nbsp;Georgia Tsartsidou,&nbsp;Allesandro Molinari,&nbsp;Anna Stagno,&nbsp;Sabina Ghislandi,&nbsp;Wei Wei,&nbsp;Daniel Fallu","doi":"10.1002/gea.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although the primary purpose of agricultural terracing can be assumed to be food production, it has been suggested that a secondary purpose was the control of soil erosion. In this paper, we explore this thesis with multi-proxy data from the TerrACE project, which studied 20 sites in a latitudinal transect across Europe. These sites show that terrace construction was often related to previous slope instability or erosion and that terracing maintained greater soil depths than the surrounding slopes. In some cases, it seems likely that the observation of landsliding that lowered slope angles and produced an accumulation of fractured regolith may have led to opportunistic terracing. The almost universal occurrence of multiple-phase sequences revealed maintenance and re-use that protected buried soil organic carbon. Three case studies show; headwater sediment and carbon retention by terracing, how terracing could be resilient to severe regional environmental events (eruption of Thera) and, lastly, the modelling of failure and sediment supply from vineyard terraces. Although there is no doubt that terracing reduced soil loss from slopes, whether the perception of an erosion risk was part of the conscious reasons for terrace construction is far harder to ascertain, but cross-cultural awareness of these factors does seem to be likely.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Human–Environment Interactions in a Changing Alluvial Landscape in Ancient Bengal Over the Past Two Millennia: The Site of Mahasthangarh, Bangladesh 过去两千年来,古孟加拉不断变化的冲积地貌中人类与环境的相互作用:孟加拉国Mahasthangarh遗址
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70009
Yohan Chabot, Coline Lefrancq, Vincent Lefèvre, Naheed Sultana
{"title":"Human–Environment Interactions in a Changing Alluvial Landscape in Ancient Bengal Over the Past Two Millennia: The Site of Mahasthangarh, Bangladesh","authors":"Yohan Chabot,&nbsp;Coline Lefrancq,&nbsp;Vincent Lefèvre,&nbsp;Naheed Sultana","doi":"10.1002/gea.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mahasthangarh is a fortified city from ancient Bengal, founded around the 4th century BCE and thriving until the 13th–14th centuries CE It is located on the Barind terrace along the Karatoya River, which may appear modest today, but was a major river in the past. Through the first chronostratigraphic records sampled around Mahasthangarh, this paper aims to document human–environment interactions in a changing fluvial landscape linked to the mobility of the Karatoya over the last two millennia. During the first millennium CE, the Karatoya was part of the ancient Tista River. Its flow was stronger, leading to severe flooding that destroyed part of the citadel. Despite this, Mahasthangarh underwent several phases of growth, particularly from the 7th to 10th centuries CE (Pala Period). From the 11th to 13th centuries CE, the river shifted, especially after an earthquake in 1255. This shift was followed by changes in alluvial processes and landscapes in the 13th century CE, likely contributing to the site's decline around the 13th–14th centuries CE The filling and shifting of the Karatoya continued throughout much of the second millennium. It was only at the end of the 18th century CE that the river declined significantly, mainly due to an avulsion of the Tista, leading to its present state.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Late Holocene Evolution of the Lagoonal Harbour of the Punic Centre of Othoca (Western Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea) 奥索卡布匿中心泻湖港(西撒丁岛,地中海)全新世晚期的演变
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70010
Giovanni De Falco, Alfredo Carannante, Carla Del Vais, Luca Gasperini, Ignazio Sanna, Fabio Cammarano, Marilena Cozzolino, Vincenzo Pascucci, Alessandro Conforti
{"title":"Late Holocene Evolution of the Lagoonal Harbour of the Punic Centre of Othoca (Western Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea)","authors":"Giovanni De Falco,&nbsp;Alfredo Carannante,&nbsp;Carla Del Vais,&nbsp;Luca Gasperini,&nbsp;Ignazio Sanna,&nbsp;Fabio Cammarano,&nbsp;Marilena Cozzolino,&nbsp;Vincenzo Pascucci,&nbsp;Alessandro Conforti","doi":"10.1002/gea.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geophysical surveys and multiproxy analyses of sediment cores have been used to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Santa Giusta coastal lagoon (SGL), along the western coast of Sardinia. This area served as a natural harbour mainly during the Punic and Roman Republican periods (6th–2nd century <span>bc</span>). The inlet of the SGL is connected to the adjacent mouth of the River Tirso and lies on the incised valley of an ancient tributary that once fed into the Tirso during the last sea-level lowstand. The SGL formed after the sea level rose following the LGM, resulting in the inundation of the incised valleys, which were subsequently filled with estuarine sediments. About 6000 years ago, the area that is now occupied by the mouth of the river and the SGL was protected by a sandy barrier enclosing an open lagoon. About 4500 years ago, the deposition of alluvial sediments marked the beginning of the progradation of the river mouth, leading to the gradual enclosure of the SGL. Before 2100 years ago, the SGL was a suitable location for a sheltered harbour, as evidenced by archaeological indicators, both pottery and wooden structures, found within the lagoon sediments. By this time, the progressive narrowing of the inlet had reduced the accessibility of the site from the sea and the harbour lost its functionality.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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An 8500-Year Record of Lacustrine Activity and Changes in Archaeological Settlement Patterns in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico 墨西哥哈利斯科州马格达莱纳湖盆地8500年的湖泊活动记录和考古聚落模式的变化
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70007
Kirk C. Anderson, Christopher S. Beekman, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, Juan C. Berrio
{"title":"An 8500-Year Record of Lacustrine Activity and Changes in Archaeological Settlement Patterns in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico","authors":"Kirk C. Anderson,&nbsp;Christopher S. Beekman,&nbsp;Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza,&nbsp;Juan C. Berrio","doi":"10.1002/gea.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Magdalena Lake Basin of Jalisco, Mexico, has a rich cultural history from the Early Formative to Protohistoric Periods (1500 BCE–1600 CE). We investigated the relationship between climate chronologies, lake-level variations, and cultural changes before European contact. Chronostratigraphic reconstructions identified lake-forming periods reflecting regional and local paleoclimate sequences and coincide with variations in site location, numbers, and size, derived from our regional archaeological survey. Populations increase during high lake levels and decrease during low lake levels. An Early Archaic lake (~6800–5060 BCE) gives way to lowered lake levels in the Middle (~4980–3790 BCE) to Late Archaic (~1800 BCE). Pollen evidence for agricultural clearing appears at the end of this low period. The highest lake level, 1367 masl, occurred during the Middle Formative, followed by Late Formative/Classic lakes between 1361 and 1364 masl. The Epiclassic Period (~600–1000 CE) experienced low lake levels, coincident with a pan-Mesoamerican drought. Dated tephra layers (500–600 CE) several centimeters thick significantly impacted lake ecology and human populations. Tephra age and geochemical properties do not match the primary candidate at the nearby Ceboruco Volcano in the 10th century CE nor any other known eruption during this time period.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine 末次盛冰期火的使用:来自乌克兰中部德涅斯特山谷Korman' 9的证据
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70006
William Chase Murphree, Cruz Ferro-Vázquez, Larissa Kulakovska, Vitalii I. Usyk, Olesia Kononenko, Marjolein D. Bosch, Paul Haesaerts, Freddy Damblon, Stéphane Pirson, Philip R. Nigst, Vera Aldeias
{"title":"Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine","authors":"William Chase Murphree,&nbsp;Cruz Ferro-Vázquez,&nbsp;Larissa Kulakovska,&nbsp;Vitalii I. Usyk,&nbsp;Olesia Kononenko,&nbsp;Marjolein D. Bosch,&nbsp;Paul Haesaerts,&nbsp;Freddy Damblon,&nbsp;Stéphane Pirson,&nbsp;Philip R. Nigst,&nbsp;Vera Aldeias","doi":"10.1002/gea.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka <span>bp</span>), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource stress throughout Eurasia. Arguably, one of the most fundamental tools for human survival during this cold and arid period was the ability to create, maintain and use fire. While fire is widely considered a ubiquitous tool in modern human behaviour, there are surprisingly few well-described combustion features during the LGM in Europe. In this paper, we provide high-resolution geoarchaeological research into three combustion features associated with Epigravettian occupations at the site of Korman' 9 (Ukraine) with ages falling in the LGM. Our results show distinct variations in the size and structure of the combustion features, potentially indicating multiple occupations within the same layer or reflect differences in site organization or function during a single occupation. Additionally, our analysis shows clear evidence of the effect of solifluction and the lack of preservation of the ash layer(s) of the combustion features, as well as the development of bioturbation features enhanced by anthropogenic input. To better estimate heating temperatures of the combustion events, we employed a novel approach using colour analysis showing temperatures reaching 600°C in the substrate underlying the combustion features. In all, the combustion features at Korman' 9 provide invaluable new insights as well as high resolution description of pyrotechnological behaviours during the LGM, which has been lacking during this critical period in our evolutionary history.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Burning, Cleaning, Dumping, and Dissolution: Site Formation Processes and Stratigraphy of Pre-110,000-Year-Old MSA l Deposits in Cave 1, Klasies River Main Site, South Africa 燃烧、清洁、倾倒和溶解:南非Klasies河主遗址1号洞11万年前MSA -1矿床的遗址形成过程和地层
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70005
Peter Morrissey, Sarah Wurz, Bertrand Ligouis, Susan M. Mentzer
{"title":"Burning, Cleaning, Dumping, and Dissolution: Site Formation Processes and Stratigraphy of Pre-110,000-Year-Old MSA l Deposits in Cave 1, Klasies River Main Site, South Africa","authors":"Peter Morrissey,&nbsp;Sarah Wurz,&nbsp;Bertrand Ligouis,&nbsp;Susan M. Mentzer","doi":"10.1002/gea.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the formation and stratigraphy of sequences in southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites is vital for contextualizing evidence for the evolution of modern human behaviors and cognition. Deposits at these sites often have complex formation histories, typically involving a range of anthropogenic, geogenic, and biogenic depositional and post-depositional processes, and micro-laminated deposits are common. Consequently, archaeological micromorphology and related micro-analyses are now routinely a major component of MSA geoarchaeological research in the region. In the past few decades, microscale studies of the formation of anthropogenic features and deposits at MSA sites have begun to provide important behavioral information, including evidence for varying occupational intensities and the structuring and maintenance of living spaces. Here, a microscale geoarchaeological approach is applied to deposits dating to the MSA I cultural phase (&gt; 110 ka) in the Cave 1 Witness Baulk. The results show that humans played a considerable role in site formation and that subsequent diagenesis affected the guano, charcoal, ash, and shell, with particular impact on the carbonates which were variably dissolved, altered, or recrystallized. This latter process helped to preserve ash through reduced dissolution potential. Spatial and temporal patterns in these factors influence the macroscopic properties of the deposits in any particular area, with significant implications for the correlation of extant deposits across areas excavated at low resolution during the 1960s. Different, variably preserved, anthropogenic features and deposits were found to make up a significant proportion of the deposits. Inferred behaviors range from repeated long-term low-intensity use of individually stacked hearths to the formation of dumped deposits (including shell middens) due to repeated hearth maintenance and patterned discarding of food waste during more intensive occupations. Differences in occupational intensity and frequency both within and between the two recognized MSA I members could indicate adaptation to changing conditions as temperatures and sea levels fluctuated during Marine Isotope Stage 5e and early Stage 5d, but changes in geogenic depositional rates over the same period could skew our perception of occupational frequency. The current limited and low-resolution dating evidence prevents correlation with any specific event/s, which might have affected behavior and/or depositional rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":55117,"journal":{"name":"Geoarchaeology-An International Journal","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/gea.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes: A Research Framework for Terraces as Sustainable Environments 揭示农业景观的历史:梯田作为可持续环境的研究框架
IF 1.4 3区 地球科学
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70004
Tim C. Kinnaird, José Abellán Santisteban, Filippo Brandolini, Richard Carlton, Francesco Carrer, José Maria Martín Civantos, Maria Duggan, Justin A. Holcomb, Stelios Lekakis, Blas Ramos Rodríguez, Natalia Salazar Ortiz, José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo, Christopher Sevara, Jack R. Snyder, Lisa-Marie Shillito, Noemí Silva Sanchez, Aayush Srivastava, Alex Turner, Sam Turner
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