Engaging with soil, past and present

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2390987
AutoresRoderick B Salisbury (0000-0003-3773-5337, University of Leicester, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas23-41
Data de publicação2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183511432990
OpenAlexW2029244322
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências 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