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Soil-Survey Reports and Archaeological Investigations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Roger T. Saucier
Roger T. Saucier*
Affiliation:
U.S. Army ENGINEER Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Abstract

Most soil-survey reports published since about 1957 by the Soil Conservation Service portray the soils data on a series of photomap base sheets generally at a scale of 1:20,000. Since all or portions of many of the 203 counties for which the reports are available lack detailed topographic maps, the soil-survey reports help alleviate this deficiency and also provide an economical source of aerial photos for use in archaeological surveys. Moreover, the soil-survey data presented in the photomaps often provide valuable clues to the locations of sites and should not be overlooked in survey work.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1966 , pp. 419 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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