The composition of 40 pottery sherds from three separate excavation units at the Late Prehistoric (ca. 1300 200 B.P).
Standard methods for subsurface investigations (core holes, excavation units, exposures) are used in conjunction with extensive archeological excavations and cultural chronologies.
In this article, we present a paleoethnobotanical study conducted on sediment samples from excavation units at the site of Adji Kui 1, Turkmenistan.
We selected about 3000 millet seeds as analytical samples from randomly chosen excavation units of the NKLE EB-Y series, including NKLE-E5T2P6L56F1, NKLE-E5T7P0L57F2, NKLE-F4T4P1L55F4, NKLE-E3T3P2L56F1-1, aNKLE-E4T1P3L56F1-11-1.
Additionally, intra-site compositional variation in ceramics across the three excavation units is considered as evidence for the co-habitation of the site by several different social groups of hunter-gatherers.
Archaeological excavation units, test pits, feature fill, and natural exposures contain sediments used to interpret geomorphic history that can, in turn, shed light on archaeological site selection in a challenging environment.
We observed an excavation exposure of the unit along Highway 107 (052203790N2203790N), where the unit is composed of gravelly angular sand and clayey sand, with irregular scour-fill boundaries.
Excavation of the main unit (1000 m) revealed over 2000 archaeological features.
Trench excavations revealed sandy units that are interbedded with mud layers at the base, similar to the present distal mudflat sediments.
The cost for each tunnel i depends on the predefined unit cost for tunnel excavation, the area of tunnel cross sections and the tunnel length.
