Is it possible to determine formation processes of organic deposits through polysaccharides? Pilot study from the prehistoric site in Brandýs nad Labem, Czech Republic
| Autor: | Klement Rejšek, Lenka Lisá, Jan Turek, Valerie Vranová, Roman Hadacz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Czech
010506 paleontology Archeology Global and Planetary Change Ecology Geoarchaeology Paleontology 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Interpretation value 01 natural sciences Archaeology C content language.human_language Prehistory Mining engineering 040103 agronomy & agriculture language 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | The Holocene. 27:1273-1280 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0911 0959-6836 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959683616687382 |
| Popis: | This paper deals with a possible interpretation value of biochemical methods in comparison with the classic tools of geoarchaeology for the evaluation of formation processes. Organic rich layers from the archaeological site Brandýs nad Labem-Vrábí were tested with the aim to determine the origin of several different types of soil organic material by analyzing the content of different sugars. The studied soil body showed signs of cultural layer, redeposited soils, and in situ developed soil. The analysis of different sugars was highlighted: soil samples taken from these layers were analyzed to assess the ratios of mannose + galactose to arabinose + xylose, and of rhamnose + fucose to arabinose + xylose, content of Corg and different nitrates, as well as different rates of absorbance. The results show that the interpretation values of polysaccharides evaluation didn’t bring significant results itself, but in combination with classical tools of geoarchaeology may bring interpretable and new results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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