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

• Autores: Roderick B. Salisbury
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 86, Nº 331, 2012, págs. 178-190
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.