Project: Fueling the Furnace. An interdisciplinary study of forest soils as geoarchaeological archives

2018-10-01 – 2024-09-30

Abstract

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.