![]() ![]() In fact, in minimally managed terrestrial ecosystems, biota coexists with soil as part of a feedback system, in which the biota not only influences soil development, but is also in turn influenced by it. The influence of organisms on pedogenesis is acknowledged in the scorpan model however organisms, plants in particular, might be seen in a different light within the scorpan model. ![]() In this particular dataset, distinct but related directional processes can be identified and measured: a) the impact of the complex system of watercourses in the delta on both settlement and post-depositional processes and b) recovery bias in the observations made during survey. While some kinds of directional influence can be identified visually, a quantitative approach is particularly useful in deconstructing such patterns. In so doing, it makes use of two analytical methods that have rarely been used in archaeology: a) geostatistical analysis using variograms to investigate directional spatial autocorrelation in recorded sherd counts and b) angular wavelet analysis in evaluating directional influences in the sherd distributions for particular chronological periods. Drawing upon a continuous dataset of pottery sherd counts obtained by intensive field survey, it examines the degree to which we can make sense of the archaeological processes at work in a heavily obstructed and dynamic landscape. ![]() This paper investigates directional influences in the distribution of Bronze Age surface pottery in the northern Murghab Delta, Turkmenistan. ![]()
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