Past and Present Soil Erosion Archaeological and Geographical Perspectives

These twenty papers are based on a meeting at the Institute of Archaeology, London in May, 1991. They fall into four categories: Lowland Britain: Linking archaeology and geomorphology (John Boardman and Martin Bell), South Downs (John Boardman), Prehistory (Martin Bell), Prehistoric land-use of the Wessex Chalk (Michael J Allen), England and Wales (R Evans), Woburn Experimental Farm, Beds. (J A Catt), The floodplain edge (A G Brown), The Slapton catchment, Devon (Louise Heathwaite and Tim Burt); North West Europe: Western Europe from the last interglacial to the present (B Van Vliet-Lanoe, M Helluin, J Pellerin and B Valadas), Holocene colluvial deposits on the slopes of the Paris Basin (C Kuzucuoglu, L Lespez and J-F Pastre); Mediterranean Erosion: A reconsideration of pattern, process and methodology (John Bintliff), Greece, neolithic to present (Eberhard Zangger), Viotia, Greece (D A Davidson and S P Theocharopoulos), Vasilikos Valley, Cyprus (Malcolm Wagstaff), Montagnola Senese, Italy (C O Hunt, D D Gilburtson and R E Donahue); Analytical Techniques and Modelling: Dry valleys in Kent (R C Preece), Patterns and rates using caesium-137 (T A Quine and D E Walling), Soil micromorphological evidence (Richard Macphail), Soil deposition and its implications for environmental reconstruction (P J Farres, S J Wood and S Seeliger), Semi-arid archaeological sites (John Wainwright).