Geoarchaeology and dark earths I
Tuesday 1st July: 08:30 - 10:302 hour session: 10-15 minute papers each followed by discussion
Yannick Devos (Universit‚ Libre de Bruxelles, Centre de Recherches Arch‚ologiques)
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (University of Cambridge)
Cristiano Nicosia (Geoarchaeological and Soil Micromorphological Consultant)
Abstract
Dark Earths embedding archaeological remains have been considered until recently as homogeneous, dark coloured, poorly stratified deposits of rather ephemeral interest for archaeological understandings.
In the last decades, however, geoarchaeological studies have begun to show the enormous potential of studying these soils in their own right. In this session our explicit aim is to assemble researchers of European and Amazonian Dark earths, at first glance completely different types of anthrosols, to share their research experiences. We hope that by comparing different research strategies, new insights will arise to tackle the study of these and other archaeological soils in the future.
We welcome contributions :
* dealing with methodological issues, * examining the role of dark earths in specific landscape histories, and * problematising their position in the soilscape as an integral aspect of archaeological understandings.Keywords: dark earths, anthrosols, anthropogenic soils, geoarchaeology, palaeopedology, open-air sites
Papers
- Terras Pretas and terras mulatas in the central Amazon region: a geoarchaeological perspective
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin - An interdisciplinary study on Brussels’ Dark Earth (Belgium)
Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs, Ann Degraeve, Sylvianne Modrie, Christine Laurent - From urban dark earths to land uses at the site of Tours/Saint-Julien (France)
Mélanie Fondrillon - Deep anthropogenic topsoils in Scotland: distribution, character and conservation under modern land cover
Jo McKenzie, Ian Simpson - Dark layers (camadas pretas) over sambaquís: an archaeosedimentary phenomenon of regional extent
Ximena Villagran, Paulo DeBlasis - Site formation processes at Hatahara and their implications for understanding the archaeology of the central Amazon region
Lilian Rebellato, Eduardo Neves, Wenceslau Teixeira, William Woods - Origin of nutrients in Amazonian Dark Earths as assessed by molecular markers
Jago Birk, Wenceslau Teixeira, Eduardo Neves , Bruno Glaser - Dark earth and land use in Roman and Early Medieval contexts
Richard Macphail
- Dark Earth under the lights of micro-archaeology.
- Dark earths in the central-Italian urban medieval context (Florence, Siena): their relation with the cultural and natural historical events.
- Efeito da concentração de fragmentos cerâmicos na retenção de água no solo em sítios de Terra Preta de Índio na Amazônia Central
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar approach to the study of a medieval occupation deposit from Montegrotto Terme (Padova, northern Italy).
- Terras Pretas and terras mulatas in the central Amazon region: A geoarchaeological perspective
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