Multi-element mapping of anthropogenically modified soils and sediments at the Bronze to Iron Ages site of Tel Burna in the southern Levant

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F18%3A77221" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/18:77221 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.005" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multi-element mapping of anthropogenically modified soils and sediments at the Bronze to Iron Ages site of Tel Burna in the southern Levant

Original language description

Human settlement activities have caused changes in soil chemical properties that might remain preserved in the soil archive for a very long time. These traces might be close to irreversible on the timescale of known civilizations. Our study explores the potential of an extensive mapping of the multi-elemental composition of soil and buried sediments by a portable XRF spectrometer, using the Tel Burna site in the southern Levant as a case study. The tell, dating from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE, is known as a Bronze Age Canaanite settlement, and later in the Iron Age as a stronghold on the historic border between the Kingdom of Judah and Philistia. We compared the results of our geochemical survey conducted on the surface layer of contemporary soil with the data acquired by the same method from the archaeological stratigraphy exposed during excavations of the site. We found that handheld XRF spectrometry can reveal archaeologically meaningful patterns of the multi-elemental composition of soils

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

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

ISSN

1040-6182

e-ISSN

1873-4553

Volume of the periodical

483

Issue of the periodical within the volume

SI

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

111-123

UT code for WoS article

000436437000009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85034867923