The Holocene development of soils and sediments at three sites in the eastern Harz foreland was investigated using field and laboratory methods and integrated into the …
Chernozems are among the most fertile agricultural soils on Earth and are important terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Since the Miocene-advent of grassland-ecosystems, they …
We examined the impact of three different sample preparation methods on bulk soil geochemistry data obtained from a hand‐held, portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) …
Iron oxide minerals in soils can be influenced by various environmental conditions, which can be detected through magnetic susceptibility (χ) and its frequency dependence (χ FD%) …
Portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) is now widely used for detecting the elemental composition of a material. Elemental analysis can enhance archaeological interpretations …
This study investigates the stratigraphical sequence of Cocina Cave (Spain) employing and testing for the first time the capability of rare earth elements as markers of human activities in …
Sediments serve as an archive of human and animal activity and environmental conditions through their physical and chemical properties as well as captured biological traces …
M Seeliger, A Pint, S Feuser, S Riedesel… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout human history, communication and trade have been key to society. Because maritime trade facilitated the rapid transportation of passengers and freight at relatively low …
In this study we investigated the potential usefulness of multi-elemental soil analysis, obtained by a portable XRF spectrometer, to recognize ancient anthropogenic features …