Archaeology and Soil Science in Flanders. Personal reflections of an archaeologist anno 2019.

This paper presents some of the personal reflections of an archaeologist who studied soil sciences at Ghent University in the 1980s. The paper focuses on how soil science, amongst other sciences, gradually found its place in archaeological practice in Flanders, in part thanks to opportunities and activities at Ghent University between 1984 and 2005. Nowadays, the curricula/ educational programmes of the universities in Flanders do not at all stimulate the interaction between soil sciences and archaeology. This feels like a setback, back to the pre-1984 era, which is unfortunate, as earth scien... Mehr ...