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Detailed Project Description

General Information

ID (CGMA ID):	ES83
Project Name:	The Guadalquivir Valley Survey
Project Description:	"The Guadalquivir Valley is very fortunate in having been extensively and accurately surveyed before creeping industrialization and commercial farming with deep plows destroyed many of the sites." Carr 2002 p38
Project Websites:
Project Sponsors:
Dates of Operation:	From: 1965 To: 1995
Project Languages:	French, English	Metadata Sources:	Carr (2002)

Geographical Data

Principal Investigators

Investigator Name:	Karen Eva Carr	Address:	History Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97203
E-mail:	karen@ch2.ch.pdx.edu	Phone / Fax:	phone:( (503) 725-5472 )
Investigator Name:	M. Ponsich	Address:
E-mail:		Phone / Fax:	phone:( (503) 725-5472 )

Project Map

Chronological Coverage

Methodology

Approach:	Extensive Intensive Systematic Non-Systematic	Site Survey Siteless Survey	Diachronic Temporally Bounded

Spatial Sampling (off-site):	Full Coverage Random Sample	Stratified Random Sample Deliberate Sample	Fieldwalker Spacing (average width = 0 m) No Regular Fieldwalking

Artifact Collection:	Total Sample Diagnostic	Grab Click Pick	Counting Weighing

Collection Unit:	Tract (0 m x 0 m) Modern Field	Site Transect	Structure Scatter/Artifact

Geolocation:	Basemap more detailed than 1:10K GPS Uncorrected	Basemap 1:10K to 1:50K GPS Differentially Corrected	Basemap less detailed than 1:50K GIS

Other:	interviewing local informants

Special Studies

Artifacts:	Architecture Ceramics Lithics	Coins Metal Glass	Terracotta epigraphy Iconography

Environment:	Geology Geomorphology Soil Studies Stone/Mineral Resources	Hydrology Climatology Paleobotany	Dendrochronology Faunal Osteology Agriculture

People:	Ritual Studies Mortuary Studies	Population Data Ethnography/Ethnology	Written Resources Cultural Resource Management

Remote Sensing:	Satellite Imagery	Aerial Photography	Geoprospection
Other:
Primary Questions:
Excavation:	NO

Environmental Parameters

Geology:	Igneous	Metamorphic	Sedimentary
Geology Other:
Topography:	Alluvial Plain Coastal Plain Continental Plain Delta Desert Gorge Hills	Island Isthmus Lakeshore Mountains Peninsula Plateau River Valley	Steppe Underwater Upland Basin Urban Wadi/Oued Wetlands
Topography Other:
Climate:	Climatic Altitudes of Mountains Dry-summer Mediterranean Dry-summer Steppe Highly Oceanic	Humid and warm summer Humid Steppe Oceanic Permanently Humid	Semi-desert and Desert Steppe Sub-Oceanic Tropical Semi-desert and Desert
Climate Other:

Bibliography

Entry 1:	Ponsich, M. (1991), Implantation rurale antique sur le Bas-Guadalquivir, Madrid NOTES: 4 volumes published from 1974 to 1991
Entry 2:	Carr, Karen Eva (2002), Vandals to Visigoths: rural settlement patterns in early Medieval Spain, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press NOTES: explains M. Ponsich's methodology

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Last Updated: March 21, 2006