Article Title：Monitoring and modelling saturation as a proxy indicator for in-situ preservation in wetlands -: A GIS-based approach
Abstract：
The unifying nature of water on the preservation of organic archaeological and palaeoenvironmental source material within wet deposits is well recognized. It is also understood that, while the preservation of such deposits is fundamental towards our understanding of the past, in many areas de-watering through agricultural drainage and water abstraction is degrading them. Within the framework of preservation in situ such environments present considerable challenges. Fundamentally, the environmental dynamics of wetlands, not least of water, mean that they must be monitored carefully in order to understand the condition of the burial environment and thereby the likely preservation potential. This paper presents an approach to monitoring the saturation of the burial environment and modelling this data using a geographical information system (GIS). It demonstrates a method aimed at modelling the conditions of current preservation, and predictively modelling the conditions for long-term, in situ preservation in order to provide a baseline for resource management. It is shown that the quantification of saturation is possible and advantageous in the management of dynamic wetland environments.
Keywords: wetland archaeology; in situ preservation; GIS monitoring; resource management
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.2002.0709
Source：JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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