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Investigating Neolithic land use in Swifterbant (NL) using micromorphological techniques
D.J. Huisman, A.G. Jongmans and D.C.M. Raemaekers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Late Holocene land use at Orstad, Jæren, southwestern Norway, evidence from pollen analysis and soil micromorphology
B.M. Sageidet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
New geoarchaeological investigations of the valley systems in the Aksum area of northern Ethiopia
C. French, F. Sulas and M. Madella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Linking cultural and environmental change in Peruvian prehistory: Geomorphological survey of the Samaca Basin, Lower Ica Valley, Peru
D. Beresford-Jones, H. Lewis and S. Boreham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Stratigraphy and sedimentology at Bir Sahara, Egypt: Environments, climate change and the Middle Paleolithic
C.L. Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Phosphate fractionation and spatial patterning in ancient ruins: A case study from Yucatan
S.R. Hutson, A. Magnoni, T. Beach, R.E. Terry, B.H. Dahlin and M.J. Schabel . . . . . . . . . 260
An archaeopedological and phytolitarian study of the ‘‘Dark Earth’’ on the site of Rue de Dinant (Brussels, Belgium)
Y. Devos, L. Vrydaghs, A. Degraeve and K. Fechner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Irrigation on the Tehran Plain, Iran: Tepe Pardis — The site of a possible Neolithic irrigation feature?
G.K. Gillmore, R.A.E. Coningham, H. Fazeli, R.L. Young, M. Magshoudi, C.M. Batt and G. Rushworth . . . . 285
Geoarchaeologial studies associated with remedial measures at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, UK
M.G. Canti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 301
Geoarchaeology and the search for the first Americans
V.T. Holliday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 310