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Soilscapes and settlements: remote mapping of activity areas in unexcavated prehistoric farmsteads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2012

Roderick B. Salisbury
Roderick B. Salisbury*
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK (Email: [email protected])
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It is excellent to be able to present this latest achievement in the onward march of remote mapping, the art and science of exploring archaeological sites without digging them. Using a particularly graphic case study in Hungary, the author shows that deposits characterised by geophysical and chemical means can reveal their plans and the emphasis of their activity in some detail. This is not only a rapid and economic means of landscape investigation, but offers striking research results over a broad canvas, indicative of the numerous small dispersed settlements that so often escape the attention of the great excavation campaigns.

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HungaryNeolithicCopper Agesoilscapecommunitygeoarchaeologyhousehold clusterchemical mappingremote mapping
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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 331 , March 2012 , pp. 178 - 190
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2012

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