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Ploughzone sampling in Denmark: isolating and interpreting site signatures from disturbed contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John M. Steinberg
John M. Steinberg*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA
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Are sites in lowland Europe destroyed when they are ploughed many times? In north Denmark, many Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites are now reduced to just lithic scatters, but distinctive ‘site signatures’ persist. A lithic economic prehistory from the ploughsoil is possible and instructive.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996 , pp. 368 - 392
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