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 * 1) Lead isotope ratios as a means of identifying anthropogenic inputs to soils.
 * 2) Multi-element analysis to identify functional areas, Tayside, Scotland.
 * 3) Coastal Geomorphological Change and Settlement Adaptation in Tanzania from the Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries AD.
 * 4) Detecting buried Archaeology using Airborne Remote Sensing.
 * 5) Soil erosion, agricultural terracing and site formation processes at Markiani, Amorgos, Greece.
 * 6) Post-burial clay and iron movement in archaeological soils and sediments.
 * 7) Multi-element soil analysis: an assessment of its potential as an aid to archaeological interpretation.
 * 8) How has the study of soils and sediments developed within archaeology?
 * 9) A Neolithic buried soil in the loess of Pegwell Bay, Kent.
 * 10) Prehistoric and Roman gullying in the European loess belt.
 * 11) Mid-Holocene Charcoal Fall in Southern Scotland.
 * 12) Holocene Coastal Change in Northumberland.
 * 13) Holocene dune building on San Miguel Island, California.
 * 14) Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene.
 * 15) Lithics scatter site at Boncyn Ddol, Gwynedd, Wales – a spatial topsoil survey of phosphate and magnetic susceptibility.
 * 16) Bronze Age cairn at Carneddau, Powys, Wales – investigation of old ground surface and cremation fills through complementary phosphate and magnetic susceptibility analyses.
 * 17) Guildhall (Roman amphitheatre) excavation, London – complementary use of multi-element analysis, soil micromorphology and palynology.
 * 18) Archaeological prospection at Oakham, Leicestershire – use of fractional conversion in the interpretation of field magnetic susceptibility survey data.
 * 19) Early Christian burial site at Plas Gogerddan, Ceredigion, Wales – use of phosphate in the investigation of possible graves.
 * 20) Evidence for Medieval soil erosion in the South Hams region of Devon, UK.
 * 21) Caves and shepherds in Italy.
 * 22) Soil and sediment analysis from Viking to Medieval deposits in Norse Orkney.
 * 23) Fuel Resource Utilisation between c. AD871 to 1000 at Mývatnssveit in Northern Iceland.
 * 24) Extraction methodologies for multi-element analysis of archaeological soils.
 * 25) The identification of manure and faecal materials in archaeological soils from Crete, Turkey, Athens and Orkney.
 * 26) Soils and palaeo-climate based evidence for irrigation requirements in Norse Greenland.
 * 27) The palaeohydrology of Iron Age sites in the Mun River Valley, NE Thailand.
 * 28) Socio-environmental Holocene Landscapes of Numundo, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
 * 29) Social change in late Holocene mainland SE Asia.
 * 30) The disposal of waste in deepened soils in Scotland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
 * 31) Micromorphological and Microchemical Analysis of St. Kilda Soils.
 * 32) Micromorphology, image and microprobe analysis to identify black carbonaceous material in anthrosols.
 * 33) Calcareous features from the excavations at Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.
 * 34) A Buried Soil from Castle Rising, Norfolk.
 * 35) Research into Natural and Anthropogenic Deposits from the Excavations at Flixborough, Humberside.
 * 36) Prehistoric Clay Sources: A Forensic Exercise in Geoarchaeology.
 * 37) Remote Sensing for Dryland Geoarchaeological Investigations in Southern Libya.
 * 38) Early brass in the ancient Near East.
 * 39) Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire.
 * 40) Analysis of Metavolcanic Rocks from the Vicinity of Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Artifact Source Quarry Discrimination.
 * 41) Paleolithic Burnt Bone Horizons from the Swabian Jura.
 * 42) Geoarchaeology of Phoenicia’s buried harbours.
 * 43) Neo-environmental determinism and agrarian collapse in Andean prehistory.
 * 44) Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits, slope instability and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
 * 45) An evaluation of the site specificity of soil elemental signatures for identifying and interpreting former functional areas.

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