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Geomorphology

A landscape bearing superimposed landforms from successive formative regimes, older features surviving beneath newer ones.

In geomorphology, palimpsest refers to a landscape bearing superimposed landforms from successive formative regimes, older features surviving beneath newer ones. This meaning comes from Chorley (1984) in Geomorphology. Here palimpsest is not a parchment leaf from which earlier writing was scraped and over which new text was written, the undertext often recoverable.[1]

Unit
landform assemblage
Recovery means
morphostratigraphic and chronological mapping
Measured by
relative ages of superimposed landforms

Archaeology

a deposit that mixes the traces of many episodes, so that it records accumulated time rather than one moment.

In archaeology, palimpsest refers to a deposit that mixes the traces of many episodes, so that it records accumulated time rather than one moment. This meaning comes from Bailey (2007) in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.[2]

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References

  1. Chorley, R. J., Schumm, S. A., & Sugden, D. E. (1984). Geomorphology. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9780416325904
  2. Bailey, G. (2007). Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 26(2), 198-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2006.08.002

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