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Archaeol Prospection 8 (2)
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Title:
Archaeol Prospection 8 (2)
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Series:
Archaeological Prospection
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8 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Mark M Pollard
Arnold Aspinall
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Year of Publication:
2001
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=82003241
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19 Jun 2001
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Functional analysis of settlement areas: prospection over a defended enclosure of Iron Age ...
Alistair J Marshall
79 - 106
A small, well-preserved, trapezoidal, ditched enclosure of Mid to Late Iron Age date at The Bowsings (Guiting Power, Gloucestershire), closely defined in plan by magnetometer and resistivity survey, supplemented by extensive excavation, can be further divided into areas of differing usage by mapping levels of magnetic susceptibility (MS) and inorganic phosphate in basal topsoil over the site. A clear impression of the enclosure, with internal areas for habitation and pit-based storage, persists as a pattern of MS enhancement in the topsoil, and such survival may be of interest in the detection and analysis of highly eroded sites elsewhere. Although the habitation area showed well as an area of MS enhancement, its relative transparency to gradiometry provided another example of a larger class of such features, and stresses the importance of supplementing gradiometry with MS survey to provide more adequate assessment of sites. Use of MS survey as a method of prospection is discussed, especially in relation to adequacy of resolution. Application to MS survey of a newly developed, ground-insertable microprobe is briefly introduced as a means of increasing productivity of such surveys.
Testing high-resolution X-ray computed tomography for the micromorphological analyses of archaeological soils and sediments
W Paul Adderley
I A Simpson
George W MacLeod
107 - 112
Micromorphological analysis of soils and sediment thin-sections is a recently established interpretative method applied to samples from geoarchaeological contexts. To further the quantitative element of thin-section micromorphology studies, image analysis methods have been used to segment and quantify section images. Despite these advances, the production of sections is prone to the introduction of artefacts and the fundamental limitation of a two-dimensional section can restrict interpretation of spatially complex samples such as occupation surfaces. High-resolution X-ray computed tomography offers the potential to surmount these inherent problems and allow quantitative analysis in three-dimensions. This paper demonstrates this and presents a test of the high-resolution computed tomography method against conventional thin-section micromorphology. The results of a comparative quantitative assessment of these methods are given.
Software review
Armin Schmidt
135 - 137