Soil micromorphology in urban research: early medieval Antwerp (Belgium) and Viking Age Kaupang (Norway) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Soil micromorphology, a method that analyzes undisturbed soils and sediments in thin section using petrographic microscopes, has proven a useful tool for the study of archaeological sites. In particular, this geoarchaeological method is suitable for tackling a number of questions that are recurrent in research on early medieval towns and are often difficult to study with other methods. The starting point of the research that prompted this paper ...