Ancient settlement activities as important sources of nutrients (P, K, S, Zn and Cu) in Eastern Mediterranean ecosystems – The case of biblical Tel Burna, Israel

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.03.024" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.03.024</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.03.024" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2017.03.024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ancient settlement activities as important sources of nutrients (P, K, S, Zn and Cu) in Eastern Mediterranean ecosystems – The case of biblical Tel Burna, Israel

Original language description

Human settlement activities are connected with the accumulation of nutrients in archaeological soils. We address the question of whether the large-scale mapping of the elemental composition of the topsoil in contemporary rangeland can be used for the detection of ancient settlement activities. Using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), we mapped the elemental composition of contemporary soils over an area of 67 ha in and around the Bronze and Iron Age settlement of Tel Burna (identified as probably corresponding with biblical Libnah). Ancient settlement activities substantially increased concentrations of nutrients (P, K, S, Zn and Cu) in the contemporary topsoil owing to the deposition of biomass ashes and organic wastes. Increased concentrations of elements were detected 2500 years after the site was abandoned and we can therefore suppose that changes in the elemental composition of the soil caused by ancient settlement activities are irreversible on a timescale in which human societies op

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Catena

ISSN

0341-8162

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

156

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

62-73

UT code for WoS article

000404305700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85017142489