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Geoarchaeological and Microartifact Analysis of Archaeological Sediments de Dimitris Kontogiorgos

Geoarchaeological and Microartifact Analysis of Archaeological Sediments

Autor Dimitris Kontogiorgos
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2008
Geoarchaeology is the field of study that applies the concepts and methods of the geosciences to archaeological research. Geoarchaeological studies are important to archaeology because they can significantly enhance the archaeological interpretation. This book presents a geoarchaeological investigation of the processes involved in the formation of the Neolithic site at Paliambela in the Northern Pieria region of Central Macedonia, Northern Greece which unusually comprises both a tell and flat/extended component. Evidence (i.e., pits) of the Byzantine-Ottoman period was also detected on the tell part of the Neolithic site. The book presents and interprets the results of geoarchaeological analysis of core-data and of selected deposits (pits and ditches of the Neolithic period and pits of the Byzantine-Ottoman period, for comparative purposes) within the site. It also explores the spatial organisation of these deposits in more detail applying non-linear and linear methods of statistical analysis on the smallest cultural indicators (i.e., microartIfacts) detected on these archaeological deposits. The overall outcome of this analysis is the recognition that the formation of the archaeological deposits from both parts of the site, both temporally and spatially, was largely the result of differences in human activities and probably in the organisation of human activities that seem to preserve the two components of the Neolithic site as spatially distinct over time while differences between the Neolithic and the Byzantine-Ottoman contexts broadly indicate differences in the living environment between the prehistoric and the historic settlement.
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ISBN-13: 9781604568219
ISBN-10: 1604568216
Pagini: 243
Ilustrații: tables, charts & b/w illus
Dimensiuni: 183 x 262 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Nova Science Publishers

Cuprins

Formation processes and geoarchaeology; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Site formation processes and the role of geoarchaeology; 1.3. Contexts of preservation and the deposit as an analytic unit; 1.4. Previous geoarchaeological work on on-site formation processes in Greece; 1.5. The Greek Neolithic: some current problems; 1.6. The landscape content of Paliambela Kolindros; 1.7. Archaeological investigation at Paliambela Kolindros. Methodology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Review of previous work and some theoretical concepts; 2.2.1 Sampling at the site; 2.3. Laboratory Procedures; 2.3.1. Particle-size analysis (Hydrometer and sieve analysis); 2.3.2. Microartifacts; 2.3.3. Magnetic susceptibility measurements; 2.3.4. Organic Carbon determination; 2.4. Statistics and Calculations; 2.4.1. Particle size analysis statistics; 2.4.2. Microartifact density determinations; 2.4.3. Other Statistical tests; 2.4.3 a. Non-linear methods of analysis; 2.4.3b. Spherical self-organizing feature map; 2.4.3c. Beyond linearity: Microartifacts non-linear patterns; 2.4.3d. Linear methods of analysis; 2.4.4. Magnetic susceptibility calculations; 2.4.5. Calculation of Organic Carbon content; 2.5. Conclusion. Analysis and Interpretation; 3.1. Introduction; 3.1.1. Core 1085; 3.1.1a. Analysis of Core 1085; 3.1.2. Core 1083. 3.1.2a. Analysis of Core 1083; 3.1.3. Core 1084; 3.1.3a. Analysis of Core 1084; 3.1.4. Summary interpretation of the core-data and origin of the tell deposits; 3.2. Neolithic deposits on the Tell site; 3.2.1. Trench 6 MN Ditch 1; 3.2.2. Trench 6 EN Pits; 3.2.2a. EN Pit 2; 3.2.2b. Trench 6 EN Pit 3 (1); 3.2.2c. Trench 6 - EN Pit 3 (2); 3.2.2d. Trench 6 - EN Pit 4; 3.2.2e. Trench 6 EN Pit 5; 3.2.2f. Trench 9 MN Ditch 4; 3.2.2g. Trench 1 - MN Ditch 3; 3.2.3. Summary interpretation of the Neolithic Pits and Ditches; 3.2.3a. The MN Ditches; 3.2.3b. The EN Pits; 3.2.3c. MN Ditches vs. EN Pits; 3.2.3d. Origin of sediments in the MN Ditches and EN Pits; 3.3. Byzantine-Ottoman Pits on the Tell site; 3.3.1. Trench 6 Byzantine-Ottoman Pit 609; 3.3.2 Trench 11 Byzantine-Ottoman Pit 1102; 3.3.3. Trench 9 - Byzantine Ottoman Pit 905; 3.3.4 Summary interpretation of the Byzantine-Ottoman Pits; 3.3.4a. Origin of sediments in the Byzantine-Ottoman Pits; 3.3.5. Site formation processes: Neolithic vs. Byzantine - Ottoman contexts; 3.4 Long Section; 3.4.1. MN Ditch 2; 3.4.2 MN Ditch 5; 3.4.3 LN Pit; 3.4.4 Summary interpretation of the Neolithic contexts on the extended part of the site and the particle size analysis data as indicators of differences in site formation processes; 3.4a. Origin of sediments in the Neolithic deposits on the extended part of the site; 3.5. Evaluation of major formation processes at Paliambela; Microartifacts as indicators of site formation processes; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Non-linear and linear microartifact patterning; 4.2a. Non-linear microartifact patterning as a general indicator of differences in the sites contexts; 4.2b. Linear microartifact associations; 4.3. Conclusion: An explanation for non-linear and linear microartifact patterning; Stories of sediments: A discussion. 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The history of formation processes at Paliambela in a broader perspective; 5.3. Formation processes at Paliambela and their archaeological significance. Conclusions; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Summary of results.