Post Depositional Processes
Scope Note
Discussions of how an archaeological site, its cultural strata, and its artifacts and non-artifactual constituents were affected by the natural and cultural environment after being deposited and before being excavated. These processes include erosion, floods, animal use of the site such as pack rat middens or animal burrows, taphonomic processes not discussed elsewhere, looting of the site, human disturbances of the site and its artifacts, and differential preservation of artifacts and non-artifactual constituents.
History Note
This category, term, and scope note were introduced in 1997. The scope note was updated in 2000. Descriptor shortened in 2012 from POST DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES.
- Broader Term
- 130 Geography
- Use Fors
- Archaeological record (post-depositional processes)
- Archaeological site (burrowing animal disturbances)
- Archaeological site (disturbances)
- Archaeological site (frost heave disturbances)
- Archaeological site (post-depositional processes)
- Archaeological site (tree root disturbances)
- Archaeological site looting
- Archaeological site preservation
- Burrowing animal disturbances (archaeological)
- Curated technology (archaeological sites)
- Disturbance process (archaeological)
- Erosion (within archaeological deposits)
- Frost heave disturbances in archaeological sites
- Looting of archaeological sites
- Palimpsest (post-depositional process)
- Plundering effects on archaeological sites
- Site formation (post-depositional processes)
- Taphonomic processes
- Taphonomy
- Tree root disturbances in archaeological sites
- Vandalism (of an archaeological site)
- Zooarchaeology
- Identifier
- 138
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