Human habitation may significantly affect the chemical soil composition leading to
enrichments and depletions of specific chemical elements and the formation of …

The ways and extent to which sampling design influences data collection and
archaeological inference is a constant concern for archaeologists. Yet, spatial analyses …

A large number of contract archaeological investigations have been conducted in Sweden
over the last 10–15 years. In this article, the applicability of soil chemical surveying in …

One promising analytical method used in household archaeology in addition to inorganic
(element) geochemical analysis is that of organic (lipid) analysis applied to anthropogenic …

The Late Neolithic of southeast Hungary is known almost exclusively from excavations of
large settlement mounds, or tells. Geochemical analyses of sediments collected from …

In the last decade, different soil types have been analysed to evaluate the effect of human
activities from an archaeological point of view. In particular, in the last few years, tremendous …

This study presents the results of multi-element analysis of weak-acid extractions of 953 soil
samples collected by coring on and around pre-historic village sites on two islands, Sanak …

Field portable/hand-held x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyzers have been characterized as
potentially useful for archaeological site prospection, but little has been published on the …

Activity area analysis of archaeological soils using multi-element characterizations can
illuminate how subsistence operations are organized and how subsistence behavior has …

This paper reports the results of geochemical analysis of hard floor sediment samples from
the prehistoric Mun river valley occupation sites of Ban Non Wat and Nong Hua Raet in …