When societies stored carbon in towns: formation processes and societal implication ofurban dark earths in early medieval Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The underground of European towns is produced by millennia of interactions between societies and environment. These interactions have created urban strata and soils that can be 10 metres thick. After 30 years, the development of geoarchaeology in an artificialised environment and the application of geosciences allow to characterise the pedo-sedimentary processes and human activity systems which lead to the production of those anthropogenic ...