2000
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0763(200009)7:3<171::aid-arp142>3.0.co;2-g
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An investigation of former land-use activity through the physical and chemical analysis of soils from the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

Abstract: In this study, the impact of human activity on the pedological environment of an agriculturally marginal site is investigated and the use of soils for analysing the site's land-use history is discussed. For townships such as Knockaird (Isle of Lewis), for which detailed layout/location prior to crofting is not recoverable through plans, such analyses can offer a prospective approach. The nature of traditional Hebridean farming provides an essential background to this prospective or diagnostic approach using so… Show more

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“…New methods of soil analysis that aim to reconstruct field management, like the analysis of phytoliths and lipids (e.g. Entwistle et al, 2000), should also be tested on fossil field structures. Investigating shifting settlement locations as a strategy to preserve soil fertility over a long time period can contribute to current debates about sustainable soil management, by raising questions about the role of human-environment interaction.…”
Section: Village Formation and Ecological Changesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…New methods of soil analysis that aim to reconstruct field management, like the analysis of phytoliths and lipids (e.g. Entwistle et al, 2000), should also be tested on fossil field structures. Investigating shifting settlement locations as a strategy to preserve soil fertility over a long time period can contribute to current debates about sustainable soil management, by raising questions about the role of human-environment interaction.…”
Section: Village Formation and Ecological Changesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chemical approaches in particular have proven successful when applied to anthropogenic deposits, including applications of bulk sediment geochemistry, such as energy and wave dispersive X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry (ED‐XRF and WD‐XRF, respectively), phosphate extraction, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), and sometimes Neutron Activation Analysis, which have aided archaeologists interested in identifying site‐specific activity areas such as food processing, floor construction, and fire maintenance (e.g., Barba, ; Beck, ; Entwistle & Abrahams, ; Entwistle, Dodgshon, & Abrahams, ; Fernández, Terry, Inomata, & Eberl, ; Middleton & Price, ; Middleton et al, ; Milek & Roberts, ; Neff et al, ; Parnell, Terry, & Nelson, ; Terry, Fernández, Parnell, & Inomata, ; Wells, ; Wilson, Davidson, & Cresser, ). However, while these methods provide valuable chemical information, they can be more reflective of natural processes because bulk sampling is too coarse to disentangle complex anthropogenic deposits, such as hearths, middens, or roof and floor sequences, and may conflate multiple daily activities that exist at the microscale (Courty et al, ; Karkanas & Goldberg, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, soils act as archives of ancient human activity, providing an important tool to address archaeological questions. However, within the research domain of archaeological prospection, the potential of multielement soil studies as a survey technique is less explored (Aston, Martin, & Jackson, 1998;Entwistle, Abrahams, & Dodgshon, 1998;James, 1999;Salisbury, Bertók, & Bácsmegi, 2013). However, within the research domain of archaeological prospection, the potential of multielement soil studies as a survey technique is less explored (Aston, Martin, & Jackson, 1998;Entwistle, Abrahams, & Dodgshon, 1998;James, 1999;Salisbury, Bertók, & Bácsmegi, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%