Soil Development on Monks Mound at the Cahokia Archaeological Site, Illinois

Soil Horizons ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Olson ◽  
R. L. Jones ◽  
A. N. Gennadiyev ◽  
S. Chernyanskii ◽  
W. I. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Soil Development ◽  
Monks Mound

Biocultural Species Enhancement in the Archaeological Site of Tzintzuntzan, the “Place of Hummingbirds”

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Marina Barajas-Arroyo ◽  
Brenda Brown ◽  
José Luis Punzo ◽  
Jorge E. Schondube ◽  
Ian MacGregor-Fors ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site

Determining the chronology of an archaeological site using radiocarbon: Minimizing uncertainty

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Boaretto
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site

Mapping and Monitoring of the Land Use/Cover Changes in the Wider Area of ltanos, Crete, Using Very High Resolution EO Imagery With Specific Interest in Archaeological Sites

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sawyer Reid stippa ◽  
George Petropoulos ◽  
Leonidas Toulios ◽  
Prashant K. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Large Area ◽  
High Resolution Imagery ◽  
Site Mapping ◽  
Rule Sets

Archaeological site mapping is important for both understanding the history as well as protecting them from excavation during the developmental activities. As archaeological sites generally spread over a large area, use of high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery is becoming increasingly applicable in the world. The main objective of this study was to map the land cover of the Itanos area of Crete and of its changes, with specific focus on the detection of the landscape’s archaeological features. Six satellite images were acquired from the Pleiades and WorldView-2 satellites over a period of 3 years. In addition, digital photography of two known archaeological sites was used for validation. An Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) classification was subsequently developed using the five acquired satellite images. Two rule-sets were created, one using the standard four bands which both satellites have and another for the two WorldView-2 images their four extra bands included. Validation of the thematic maps produced from the classification scenarios confirmed a difference in accuracy amongst the five images. Comparing the results of a 4-band rule-set versus the 8-band showed a slight increase in classification accuracy using extra bands. The resultant classifications showed a good level of accuracy exceeding 70%. Yet, separating the archaeological sites from the open spaces with little or no vegetation proved challenging. This was mainly due to the high spectral similarity between rocks and the archaeological ruins. The satellite data spatial resolution allowed for the accuracy in defining larger archaeological sites, but still was a difficulty in distinguishing smaller areas of interest. The digital photography data provided a very good 3D representation for the archaeological sites, assisting as well in validating the satellite-derived classification maps. All in all, our study provided further evidence that use of high resolution imagery may allow for archaeological sites to be located, but only where they are of a suitable size archaeological features.

Soil Development in the Saline Marshes of Florida

Soil Horizons ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
C. L. Coultas
Keyword(s):  
Soil Development

Soil Development

1952 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-223
Author(s):  
L. G. Monthey
Keyword(s):  
Soil Development

Estimation of Radiation Hazards of Natural Radionuclides in Archaeological Site (Tanis), Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Safwat Salama ◽  
nassif mansour ◽  
Nabil Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Radionuclides ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Radiation Hazards

Archaeological Site Survey: Some Sociocultural Perspectives

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Larry L. Naylor
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
Site Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Increased Sensitivity

Basically, this paper concentrates on two major ideas: 1) archaeologists have not utilized informants as much as they could or perhaps should in site survey; and, 2) the use of serious amateur archaeologists as sources of information on sites and site locations may be more efficient and effective than traditional site survey techniques that tend to emphasize only on-ground visitations. The paper stresses the idea that survey results can be improved upon given the development of increased sensitivity to the social/cultural environment in which the survey is to be undertaken and by broadening survey skills to encompass the identification, locating and interviewing of local informants.

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