Book Review: Soil science and archaeology: three test cases from Minoan Crete

Barker, G. and Mattingley, D. , editors 1999: The archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes. Oxford: Oxbow Books .

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Castro, P.V. , Cbapman, R.W. , Gili, S. , Lull, V. , Mico, R. , Rihute, C. , Risch, R. and Sanahuja, M.E. , editors 1998: Augus Project: palaeoclimatic reconstruction and the dynamics of human settleme.nt and land use in the area of the middle Aguas (Almeria), in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula. Luxembourg: European Commission .

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Endfield, G. 1995: Myth, manipulation and myopia in the study of Mediterranean soil erosion. In Archaeological Sciences 1995, Oxford: Oxbow Monograph 64, 241-248.

French, C. and Whitelaw, T. 1999: Soil erosion, agricultural terracing and site formation processes at Markiani, Amorgos, Greece: the micromorphological perspective . Geoarchaeology 14, 151-189 .

Leveau, P. , Walsh, K. , Trement, F. and Barker, G. , editors 1999: Environmental reconstruction in Meliterranean landscape archaeology. Vol- ume 2 of Barker, G. and Mattingley, D. , editors, Thle archlaeology of Mediterranean landscapes, Oxford: Oxbow Books .

van Andel, T. , Runnels, C. and Pope, K. 1986: Five thousand years of land use and absuse in the southern Argolid, Greece . Hesperia 55, 103-128 .

van Andel, T. , Zangger, E. and Demitrack, A. 1990: Land use and soil erosion in prehistoric and historical Greece . Journal of Field Archlaeology 17, 379-396 .

van der Leeuw, S. 1997: A DG-XII research programme to understand the natural and anthropogenic causes of land degradation and desertification in the Mediterranean basin. Luxembourg: European Commission .

Vita-Finzi, C. 1969: The Mediterranean valleys: geological changes in historical times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .