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Optically-stimulated luminescence profiling and dating of historic agricultural terraces in Catalonia (Spain)

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Date
02/2017
Author
Kinnaird, Tim
Bolòs, Jordi
Turner, Alex
Turner, Sam
Keywords
DP Spain
G Geography (General)
S Agriculture (General)
History
Archaeology
NDAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Dating agricultural terraces is a notoriously difficult problem for archaeologists. The frequent occurrence of residual material in terrace soils and the potential for post-depositional disturbance mean that conventional artefactual and lab-based dating methods often provide unreliable dates. In this paper we present a new technique using luminescence field profiling coupled with OSL dating to produce complete (relative) sequences of dates for sedimentary stratigraphies associated with agricultural terraces and earthworks. The method is demonstrated through a series of case-studies in western Catalonia, Spain, in which we reconstruct the formation sequence of earthwork features from the Middle Ages through to the present day. OSL profiling at the time of archaeological survey and excavation permitted spatially and temporally resolved sediment ‘chronologies’ to be generated, and provides the means to interpret the environmental and cultural archives contained in each. The case-studies presented here show that luminescence approaches are a valuable tool to reconstruct landscape histories.
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Kinnaird , T , Bolòs , J , Turner , A & Turner , S 2017 , ' Optically-stimulated luminescence profiling and dating of historic agricultural terraces in Catalonia (Spain) ' , Journal of Archaeological Science , vol. 78 , pp. 66-77 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.11.003
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Journal of Archaeological Science
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.11.003
ISSN
0305-4403
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain (MINECO HAR2012-35022).
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301662#appsec1
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10657

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