Roderick Salisbury

Publications

• Engaging with Soil Materiality, Past and Present

  R. B. Salisbury

  Journal of Material Culture. 01/2012; 17(1).

  From raw material to sacred clay, from wall plaster to garden plots, soil plays an intimate role in the lives of agriculturalists. In the lives of archaeologists, however, soil too frequently plays the role of overburden, or the stuff holding the more important things, like stones and bones. At most... [more] From raw material to sacred clay, from wall plaster to garden plots, soil plays an intimate role in the lives of agriculturalists. In the lives of archaeologists, however, soil too frequently plays the role of overburden, or the stuff holding the more important things, like stones and bones. At most, soil studies are seen as essential for environmental reconstruction or coming to grips with formation processes. A more grounded approach to interpreting agrarian life involves an understanding of, and appreciation for, soil as a partner. In turn, thinking about soil opens new terrain in the study of landscape perception, ideology and memory. This article explores the potential offered by the materiality of sediments and soilscapes.

• Geochemical Evidence of Activity Zones at Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age Settlements in eastern Hungary

  R. B. Salisbury

  Journal of Archaeological Science. 01/2012;

  The Late Neolithic of southeast Hungary is known almost exclusively from excavations of large settlement mounds, or tells. Geochemical analyses of sediments from small, flat Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlements from the Körös River basin provides data necessary to incorporate knowledge of... [more] The Late Neolithic of southeast Hungary is known almost exclusively from excavations of large settlement mounds, or tells. Geochemical analyses of sediments from small, flat Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlements from the Körös River basin provides data necessary to incorporate knowledge of spatial organization in small settlements into the regional settlement pattern. Soil samples were subject to weak acid extraction ICP-MS. Principal Components Analysis of the results produced a workable number of components. Spatial analyses of these components were conducted via kriging in ArcGIS 9.1. Results indicate specific task areas, and when combined with sediment characterizations, phosphate ‘spot-tests’ and pH, suggest long-term cultural traditions in the location of activity zones within small agrarian settlements.

• SETTLEMENTS, SEDIMENTS AND SPACE: A PRACTICE APPROACH TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN THE LATE NEOLITHIC OF THE GREAT HUNGARIAN PLAIN

  Roderick B. Salisbury

  01/2010

  Degree: Ph.D.

  Supervisor: Professor Ezra B.W. Zubrow

• Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain

  Parkinson, William A., Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, Margaret R. Morris, Apostolos Sarris, Roderick B. Salisbury

  Journal of Field Archaeology. 01/2010; 35:164-183.

  This article discusses research carried out by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project from 2000 to 2006 at Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. To build a model of social organization for the period, we incorporated information from regional geomorphological st... [more] This article discusses research carried out by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project from 2000 to 2006 at Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. To build a model of social organization for the period, we incorporated information from regional geomorphological studies, soil chemistry analysis, archaeological surface surveys, remote sensing, and systematic excavations at Early Copper Age sites in the Körös Valley of southeastern Hungary. Previous models characterized the transition from the Neolithic period to the Copper Age as an abrupt shift from a tell-based, sedentary, agricultural lifeway to one based on mobile cattle herding. By studying the transition between these periods on multiple geographic and temporal scales, we have identified a more gradual process with widespread regional variation in cultural patterns. Similar social processes characterize the transition between chronological periods and cultural phases in other parts of the world, and we suggest that a multiscalar approach is effective for building comparative archaeological models of long-term social change

• Neolithic Settlements and Soilscapes in Eastern Hungary

  Roderick B. Salisbury

  The European Archaeologist. 01/2010; 34:5-7.

• Rejection of Urban Sedentism: Settlement Transitions in Southeast Hungarian Prehistory

  Salisbury, Roderick B.

  01/2010: pages 13-29;

• Reimagining Regional Analysis in Archaeology

  R. B. Salisbury

  01/2009: pages 2-15;

  ISBN: 1-4438-1328-1

• Reimagining Regional Analyses: The Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics

  T. L. Thurston, R. B. Salisbury (eds)

  01/2009;

  ISBN: 1-4438-1328-1

• Transition and Tradition: Social Practice in the Hungarian Neolithic and Early Copper Age

  R. B. Salisbury, M. Morris

  01/2009: pages 130-163;

  ISBN: 1-4438-1328-1

• Az Alföld késő neolitikus és kora rézkori településszerkezetének vizsgálatai fúrásadatok elemzésével: A Neolithic Archaeological Settlements of the Berettyó-Körös Project (NASBeK) előzetes eredményei (Investigating Settlement Structure through Soil Chemis

  Salisbury, Roderick B.

  01/2008: pages 41-64;

• Space - Archaeology's Final Frontier? An Intercontinental Approach

  R. B. Salisbury, D. Keeler (eds)

  01/2007;

  ISBN: 1-84718-278-X

• Giant’s Grave: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Prehistoric Landscapes within the Genesee River Valley

  R. B. Salisbury, K. S. Niemel

  Northeast Anthropology. 01/2005; 69:35-57.

• Soilscapes and settlements: remote mapping of activity areas in unexcavated small farmsteads

  Roderick B. Salisbury

  Antiquity. 86(331):178-190.