Postdoctoral researcher  Alfredo Mayoral (GIAP), who has recently started a Juan de la Cierva – Incorporation contract at the ICAC, organizes session #230 in the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) international conference 2022, which will be held from 31 Aug to 3 Sept in Budapest.

This session is entitled “Sediment and soil archives to decipher human-environment interactions in wetland landscapes from the Neolithic to the XXth century”, and is organized by Alfredo Mayoral (ICAC) and André-Marie Dendeviel (University of Lyon – ENTPE – CNRS).

Call for abstracts

This session focuses on the use of soils and sediments to decipher the interactions between climate, paleoenvironments, and past societies in wetland landscapes. This approach relies on the collection and processing of geoarchaeological or paleoecological data to reconstruct socio-environmental changes in diverse cultural and chronological contexts. We propose to challenge the intercomparison of multidisciplinary data by discussing how multi-proxy analyses of soil and sediment archives from wetlands can be combined with archaeological data in order to reconstruct long-term trajectories of socio-ecosystems –and the resulting cultural landscapes– from the Neolithic to the XXth century. The contributions will combine archaeological studies (excavation, surveys, historical data) with a broad analytical panel of sedimentary archives (from field geomorphology and paleopedology to physico-chemical characterization and microscopic approaches). Beyond discussing socio-environmental interaction, this session will also be the place to debate broader issues such as implications for cultural heritage, wetlands reclamation, and lessons for the future management and sustainability of cultural landscapes.

More information on session #230: Call for abstracts – EAA 2022

Link to the online submission process: https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/

Conference webpage: https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2022

Contact:

• Alfredo Mayoral: amayoral@icac.cat
• André-Marie Dendievel: andre-marie.dendievel@entpe.fr

Last but not least, depending on their number and quality we will also consider the publication of the communications in a special issue of a peer-reviewed international journal.