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Geoarchaeology 21 (6)
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Title:
Geoarchaeology 21 (6)
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Geoarchaeology
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21 (6)
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Journal
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Editor:
Paul Goldberg
Rolfe D Mandel
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Year of Publication:
2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.v21:6/issuetoc
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08 Dec 2006
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Geological processes and site structure; assessing integrity at a Late Paleolithic open-air...
James G Enloe
523 - 540
The author argues that although some Palaeolithic open-air sites are thought to avoid the taphonomic complications involved in reading the archaeological record of caves and rock shelters, interpreting their archaeological record is less straightforward than assumed. Post-depositional processes may obscure structure in configurations of features and artefacts. It is suggested that recently developed techniques for the excavation and analysis of Palaeolithic cave sites can be applied to open-air sites before spatial patterning is interpreted for inferences about prehistoric social organization. Analysis of the orientation of elongated artefacts on the occupation surface of the late Upper Palaeolithic site of Verberie, France, is employed for evaluation of the integrity of site structure. Results indicate spatial structure largely undisturbed by geological processes. The lack of disturbance in the configuration of archaeological materials allows for a behavioural interpretation of those remains. The proposition that Verberie was a hunting campsite for initial carcass processing is supported.
Beyond stratigraphic noise; unraveling the evolution of stratified assemblages...
Eugène Morin
541 - 565
Study exploring the stratigraphic evolution of archaeological assemblages in faunalturbated sites. These sites are sometimes described as having limited archaeological value because of varying degrees of occupation mixing. It is argued here that the vertical distribution of assemblages is predictable in faunalturbated contexts. Understanding this vertical evolution may lead to a better assessment of the archaeological potential of a cultural sequence. In faunalturbated soils, the stratigraphic evolution of the assemblages is largely dictated by faunal activity. Tunnelling by small animals tends to sink cultural remains through the deposits. Although objects sink at a relatively fast pace near the surface, the process slows down as the objects reach the bottom of the biomantle where the sediments are more compact. This process affects the shape of the artefact vertical distribution. The analysis of a multicomponent site from southern Québec is used to model how assemblages may evolve temporally in faunalturbated settings. At Station 3-avant, the stratigraphic distribution of the cultural remains appears to evolve from an upward-skewed distribution to a bottom-skewed distribution through time. This evolution is interpreted to result from the fact that objects are often too large and/or heavy to be moved upward by the pedofauna. In situations in which this stage of stratigraphic evolution is not yet reached, enough information about temporal successions may be retained for the site to be useful for investigating diachronic change. This may prove invaluable in regions in which faunalturbated sequences are common.