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Geoarchaeological perspectives on paleolandscapes and regional subsurface archaeology

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This paper explores geoarchaeological approaches to regional-scale research in dynamic landscapes. Landscape element, a spatial concept from landscape ecology, and the archaeological notion of place are integrated with geomorphological models of landscape evolution. A distributional or non-site approach to the subsurface archaeological record is argued to be most consist with a dynamic view of landscapes. Regional geomorphological studies are shown to be crucial, given the volume of sediment that needs to be searched, in developing efficient subsurface sampling strategies. Various subsurface recovery techniques are reviewed, including the potential use of microartifacts to increase the effectiveness of small bulk samples in sampling the buried archaeological record.

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Stafford, C.R. Geoarchaeological perspectives on paleolandscapes and regional subsurface archaeology. J Archaeol Method Theory 2, 69–104 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02228435

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