Engaging with soil, past and present

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390987
AutoresRoderick B Salisbury (0000-0003-3773-5337, University of Leicester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas23-41
Fecha de publicación2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183511432990
OpenAlexW2029244322
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas47

From raw material to sacred clay, from wall plaster to garden plots, soil plays an intimate role in the lives of agriculturalists. In the lives of archaeologists, however, soil too frequently plays the role of overburden, or the stuff holding the more important things, like stones and bones. At best, soil studies are seen as essential for environmental reconstruction or coming to grips with formation processes. A more grounded approach to interpreting agrarian life involves an understanding and appreciation of soil as a partner. In turn, thinking about soil opens new terrain in the study of landscape perception, ideology and memory. This article explores the potential offered by the materiality of sediments and soilscapes

Aesthetics · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Environmental ethics · Geography · Ideology · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrain · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture · Philosophy