scholarly journals Natural formation processes of the Nakayama site (late to final stage of Jomon period) in Akita Prefecture, Northern Japan : a preliminary report

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Tsubasa Kamei ◽  
Naoto Koiwa ◽  
Nobuhiko Kamijo
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Akita Prefecture ◽  
Natural Formation ◽  
Northern Japan

Excavation of the Lower Palaeolithic Site at Amey's Eartham Pit, Boxgrove, West Sussex: A Preliminary Report.

1986 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 215-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Roberts ◽  
M. R. Bates ◽  
C. Bergman ◽  
A. P. Currant ◽  
J. R. Haynes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Environmental Reconstruction ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

The acheulian site at Boxgrove contains one of the most extensive areas of in situ fauna and flintwork yet discovered in Britain. This material is found in a complex sequence of sediments which represent depositional conditions from a 42 m sea level rise to the onset of a full periglacial climate. Excavation of the archaeological horizon has been accompanied by a programme of multidisciplinary research examining site formation processes, palaeolandscape and palaeoecological development, using sedimentological and environmental reconstruction techniques. Dating of the site is tentative as no absolute dates are available at present. However, comparative analysis with other British sites would suggest a position for the Boxgrove sequence within the Middle Pleistocene. The archaeological horizon is interpreted as being deposited towards the latter part of an interglacial or an interstadial period.

scholarly journals Preliminary Report on the first season of fieldwork in Berettyóújfalu-Szilhalom

2015 ◽  
pp. 377-403
Author(s):  
Daniel Neumann ◽  
Zsuzsa Siklósi ◽  
Roman Scholz ◽  
Márton Szilágyi
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
First Results ◽  
Archaeological Sciences ◽  
Detailed Picture

This study aims to present the first results of fieldwork conducted by the teams of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (Frankfurt am Main) and the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) in the scope of a joint project. The investigated tell site, Berettyóújfalu-Szilhalom is well known by prehistoric archaeology due to earlier excavations. The main goals of the project were to gain a better understanding of Late Neolithic tell formation processes, to investigate the relations of a tell and its adjacent horizontal settlement and to get a more detailed picture on the Late Neolithic–Early Copper Age transition. Therefore we re-opened the refilled trench of the excavation carried out in 1976, collected bone, soil and micromorphological samples for further examinations, performed geomagnetic prospections, made drillings and field surveys.

Soil Genesis and Site-Formation Processes

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance T. Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Soil Formation ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Natural Formation ◽  
Pedogenic Processes

Pedogenic processes that produce or alter the soils associated with a landscape (buried or unburied) also modify the archaeological sites and other traces of human activity associated with that landscape and buried landscapes. The wide range of processes that form soils can profoundly affect the archaeological record. Pedogenesis, therefore, is an important component of the processes of archaeological site formation. Archaeological “site-formation processes” are those processes that modify artifacts and archaeological sites from the moment they were formed until they are uncovered by archaeologists (Stein, 2001b, pp. 37–38). Understanding formation processes is crucial in archaeology because archaeologists use the patterns of artifacts in the ground to infer behaviors. Formation processes identify patterns that are created by ancient behaviors and separate those patterns from the ones created by later cultural and natural processes (Stein, 2001b, p. 37). In his influential volume Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record, Schiffer (1987, p. 7) notes that archaeologists try to infer past behavior based on the archaeological record, but the record “must be handled with great care by the investigator seeking to infer past behaviors, for the evidence that survives has been changed in many ways by a variety of processes.” These processes introduce variability and ambiguity into the archaeological record. Schiffer (1987, p. 7) further distinguishes between cultural processes, in which the agency of transformation is human behavior, and noncultural processes, which stem from processes of the natural environment. Natural formation processes are many and varied and include plants, animals, wind, water, ice, and gravity, among others. Soil formation is also identified as an important process of site formation. Schiffer (1987) provides a comprehensive discussion of natural site-formation processes, which are summarized by Stein (2001b). Nash and Petraglia (1987) and Goldberg et al. (1993) also provide a number of case histories of natural formation processes identified at archaeological sites. Because soil formation represents the alteration of rock and sediment (chapter 1), pedogenic processes are important natural processes in the formation of archaeological sites. Other weathering processes that are significant in site formation can be grouped as “diagenetic alterations.”

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