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Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy)

de Neef, Wieke; Armstrong, Kayt; van Leusen, Martijn

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Authors

Wieke de Neef

Kayt Armstrong

Martijn van Leusen



Abstract

This paper presents the results of an in-depth multidisciplinary restudy of small Metal Age surface scatters recorded in earlier fieldwalking surveys in northern Calabria (Italy). Guided by a stratified sampling approach based on site types and topographic positions, high-resolution surface collections at the selected sites were combined with geophysical surveys, test pits, and soil studies to investigate both archaeological deposits and the site formation processes that have an effect on their detectability. This approach is shown to result in a better definition of archaeological ‘sites’, and to help fill in details of regional exploitation and settlement dynamics at the landscape scale. At this broader scale we are also able to model post-depositional processes and slope dynamics affecting the preservation of the archaeological record. With regard to methodology, our study has enabled the evaluation of diverse archaeological detection methods and the fine-tuning of field strategies for the study of Metal Age remains.

Citation

de Neef, W., Armstrong, K., & van Leusen, M. (2017). Putting the Spotlight on Small Metal Age Pottery Scatters in Northern Calabria (Italy). Journal of Field Archaeology, 42(4), 283-297-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1332930

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jun 22, 2017
Publication Date Jun 22, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 27, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jun 28, 2017
Journal Journal of Field Archaeology
Print ISSN 0093-4690
Electronic ISSN 2042-4582
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 42
Issue 4
Pages 283-297-297
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1332930

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Advance online version © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way





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