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      Past and Future Earth: Archaeology and Soil Studies on Ambergris Caye, Belize

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          Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environmental impact of human activities today.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                2048-4194
                Archaeology International
                Ubiquity Press
                2048-4194
                12 December 2016
                : 19
                : 1
                : 97-108
                Affiliations
                [-1]UCL Institute of Archaeology, GB
                [-2]University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, GB
                [-3]UCL Department of Geography, GB
                [-4]UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, GB
                [-5]UCL Institute of Archaeology & UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, GB
                [-6]Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, GB
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-6945
                Article
                10.5334/ai.1916
                48c4b107-4605-4a5e-8cd7-93301c3195bb
                © 2016 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Archaeology,Cultural studies
                Archaeology, Cultural studies

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