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A Newly Identified Basalt Adze Quarry at Honoko‘i Gulch, East Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands 夏威夷群岛东莫洛卡岛Honoko 'i Gulch新发现的玄武岩Adze采石场

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70018

Patrick V. Kirch, Jillian A. Swift, Kepa Lyman, Greg Solatorio, Kylie Tuitavuki, Steven Lundblad, Peter Mills

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Site Formation Processes and Archaeological Preservation Potential of the Lady Bug Site, an Inundated Quarry Within the Aucilla River, Northwest Florida 佛罗里达西北部奥西拉河中被淹没的采石场雌虫遗址的遗址形成过程和考古保护潜力

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70019

Nicholas K. Bentley

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Go With the Flow: Microfacies Analysis for Uncovering Occupation Patterns, Waste Management, and Water Adaptation at La Draga Lakeside Settlement (Lake Banyoles, Spain) 随波逐流：La Draga湖滨聚落（西班牙班约莱斯湖）发掘职业模式、废物管理和水适应的微相分析

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70016

Vasiliki Andreaki, Panagiotis Karkanas, Antoni Palomo, Raquel Piqué, Xavier Terradas

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The Geoarchaeological Context of Early Holocene Human Occupation at the Cerro Pedregoso Site, Cedros Island, Mexico 墨西哥塞德罗斯岛Cerro Pedregoso遗址全新世早期人类活动的地质考古背景

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70017

Loren G. Davis, Matthew R. Des Lauriers, Antonio Porcayo-Michelini, David B. Madsen, David Rhode

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Correction to “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)” 对“综合地貌、地质和地球化学参数了解235年罗马-日耳曼哈尔霍恩冲突（德国下萨克森州）相关考古铁器的保存状况和空间分布”的修正

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70021

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Understanding the Depositional History of the Archaeological Open-Air Site, Klein Hoek 1, South Africa, Using Geophysical Geoarchaeology 了解考古露天遗址的沉积历史，Klein Hoek 1，南非，使用地球物理地质考古学

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70015

Oliver Hatswell, Ian Moffat, Christopher J. H. Ames, Matthew Shaw, Natasha Phillips, Jessica-Louise McNeil, Brian G. Jones, Alex Mackay

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Predicting Buried Archaeological Heritage in a 3D Environment—Modelling the Urban Subsurface Using Voxels 在三维环境中预测埋藏的考古遗产——利用体素对城市地下进行建模

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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

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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

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Geoarchaeology-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/gea.70013

Daniele Moscone, Mauro Pallara, Ahmad Azadi, Pasquale Acquafredda, Andrea Ricci

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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

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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

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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

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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, 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","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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