Where have all the Settlements Gone? Field Survey Methods for Locating Bronze and Iron Age Settlements in a Cultivated Landscape
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Summary, in English
The article is a description and evaluation of extensive and intensive field survey as a means of locating sites from the bronze and early iron ages in the cultivated landscape of southern Sweden. It includes a discussion of other field survey efforts and recommendations about survey technique. Surface survey in December proved to be a fairly successful means of locating bronze age remains in clay till soils.
Department/s
Publishing year
1988
Language
English
Pages
99-112
Publication/Series
Papers of the Archaeological Institute University of Lund
Volume
1987-1988
Issue
7
Full text
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Lunds universitet: Arkeologiska institutionen
Topic
- Archaeology
Keywords
- field survey
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0458-4767