This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and
altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking
advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many
archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The core of this
volume describes and illustrates major transformations of soils and
the processes involved in these that have occurred during the
Holocene and how these relate to human activities as much as
natural causes and trajectories of development, right up to the
present day. This is done in two ways: first by examining a number
of major processes and impacts on the landscape such as Holocene
warming and the development of woodland, clearance and agricultural
activities, and second by examining the trajectories of these
changes in soil systems in different palaeo-environmental
situations in several diverse parts of the world. The
transformations identified are relevant to prevalent themes of
today such as over-development and soil, land and environmental
degradation and resilience. The studies articulated relate to
Britain, southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa,
northern India and Peru in South America.
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