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We did soil mapping of several tenant farmer sites at Waverly =
Plantation in Mississippi in 1979, using a 1" soil extruder to obtain =
samples on a 2 meter grid. Used a colorimeter to test for calcium, =
iron, copper, and phosphate, as well as doing pH. I thought the =
results were useful in showing activity areas and potential =
structural locations.
Phosphate testing has been done on prehistoric sites (see two =
references below).
All in all, the soil chemistry survey appears to be a relatively =
non-destructive sampling technique to be used in planning testing or =
major excavations.
Adams, William Hampton
1980 Remote Sensing. Waverly Plantation: Ethnoarchaeology of a =
Tenant Farming Community, editied by William H. Adams. National =
Technical Information Service, Washington, D.C.
Eidt, Robert C.
1973 A Rapid Chemical Field Test for Archaeological Site Surveying. =
American Antiquity 38(2):206=8B210.
Hassan, Fekri A.
1980 Rapid Field Quantificative Determination of Phosphate in =
Archaeological Sediments. Paper presented at the 45th annual meeting =
of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA,
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