Making time work
Sampling Floodplain Artefact Frequencies and Populations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3780294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Evans (0000-0002-4197-4202), Christopher Evans (0009-0000-5778-6858), Jonathan Tabor, Marc Vander Linden (0000-0002-0120-7754, University College London) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 339 |
| Pages | 241-258 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x0005033x |
| OpenAlex | W1482308044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 21 |
The expansion of large-scale excavation in Britain and parts of Continental Europe, funded by major development projects, has generated extensive new datasets. But what might we be losing when surfaces are routinely stripped by machines? Investigation by hand of ploughsoils and buried soils in the Fenlands of eastern England reveals high densities of artefacts and features that would often be destroyed or overlooked. These investigations throw new light on the concept of site sequences where features cut into underlying ground may give only a limited and misleading indication of the pattern and timing of prehistoric occupation. The consequential loss of data has a particular impact on estimates of settlement density and population numbers, which may have been much higher than many current estimates envisage
Archaeology · Cartography · Excavation · Floodplain · Geography · Physical geography · Population · Prehistory · Sampling (signal processing) · Scale (ratio) · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Telecommunications · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Demography · Geology · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Introduction
Estimations of Population Density for Selected Periods Between the Neolithic and AD 1800
Geoarchaeology in action
Life in the Woods
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Excavations at the Neolithic Site at Hurst Fen, Mildenhall, Suffolk (1954, 1957 and 1958)
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |