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Project
Fueling the Furnace. An interdisciplinary study of forest soils as geoarchaeological archives
This project aims at investigating the early medieval exploitation of forests for charcoal production in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary manner. Through a synergy between archaeology, pedology, geostatistics, mineralogy and geochronology, it seeks to significantly improve our understanding and methodological approach towards the potential of woodland soils as archives of human-landscape interaction, with particular reference to processes of resource procurement in natural environment.
Date:1 Oct 2018 → Today
Keywords:luminescence chronometry, charcoal production, geo-archaeology, early medieval iron smelting
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of archaeology not elsewhere classified, Geology not elsewhere classified, Geoarchaeology, Other history and archaeology not elsewhere classified