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PARTICLE SIZE AND PHOSPHATE ANALYSIS‐EVIDENCE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF A TELL
Author(s) -
DAVIDSON D. A.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1973.tb00083.x
Subject(s) - alluvium , phosphate , geology , particle (ecology) , particle size , archaeology , mineralogy , chemistry , geography , paleontology , oceanography , organic chemistry
Soil samples were collected from a deep sounding through the centre of a tell, 11 m in height, at Sitagroi in north‐eastern Greece. These samples were analysed for particle size and total phosphate in order to elucidate the formation of the tell. The phosphate results, though very varied, indicated that the tell evolved entirely as a result of occupation of the site. It is proposed that the main process of accumulation was from house collapse and that local alluvium was used for house construction. A similarity is shown between local alluvium, a remnant of a house wall and most of the samples from the deep sounding. Pearson type 1 curves are fitted to the particle size data and this permits a grouping of soil samples. Some of the divisions between the groups coincide not only with occupation phase changes but also with localized lower phosphate contents. Two periods of site abandonment are suggested.