Abstract
Soil micromorphology in archaeology: history, objectives, possibilities and prospects
Highlights
The soil micromorphology was first applied to archaeological objects about two decades following its establishment as a separate scientific discipline by Kubiena in 1938 (Cornwall, 1958; Dalrymple, 1958)
Already in 1989, on the basis of their broad experience of work on archaeological objects, the authors emphasized that soil micromorphology was one of the most effective and prospective methods of solving a wide range of geoarchaeological problems that could not be solved by other methods of pedology and Earth sciences
In 1990, the Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Working Group was initiated by Richard Macphail with the encouragement of co-workers Marie-Agnès Courty and Paul Goldberg (Macphail, 2014)
Summary
The soil micromorphology was first applied to archaeological objects about two decades following its establishment as a separate scientific discipline by Kubiena in 1938 (Cornwall, 1958; Dalrymple, 1958). Macphail’s Working Group regularly organizes intensive short courses in archaeological soil micromorphology for international students.
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