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Advances in geoarchaeological approaches to anthrosol chemistry, Part II
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Advances in geoarchaeological approaches to anthrosol chemistry, Part II
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Subtitle:
activity area analysis
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Geoarchaeology
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22 (4)
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Journal
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Editor:
Paul Goldberg
Rolfe D Mandel
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Issue Editor:
E C Wells
Richard E Terry
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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2007
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.v22:4/issuetoc
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05 Dec 2007
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Geostatistical and multi-elemental analysis of soils to interpret land-use history in the Hebrides, Scotland
J A Entwistle
K J W McCaffrey
Robert A Dodgshon
391 - 415
In the absence of documentary evidence about settlement form and agricultural practice in northwest Scotland before the mid-eighteenth century, a geoarchaeological approach to reconstructing medieval land use and settlement form is presented. The study applies multielemental analysis to soils previously collected from a settlement site at Greaulin, near Uig, Isle of Skye, and highlights the importance of a detailed knowledge of the local soil environment and the cultural context. Geostatistical methods were used to analyze the spatial variability and distribution of a range of soil properties typically associated with geoarchaeological investigations. Semivariograms were produced to determine the spatial dependence of soil properties, and ordinary kriging was undertaken to produce prediction maps of the spatial distribution of these soil properties and enable interpolation over nonsampled locations in an attempt to more fully elucidate former land-use activity and settlement patterns. The importance of identifying the spatial covariance of elements and the need for several lines of physical and chemical evidence is highlighted. For many townships in the Hebrides, whose precise location and layout prior to extensive land reorganization in the late-eighteenth to early-nineteenth century is not recoverable through plans, multi-elemental analysis of soils can offer a valuable prospective and diagnostic tool.