A matter of scale: urban geoarchaeology in Brussels and Flanders ...

A good knowledge of soils and sediments is mandatory in urban archaeology. Beyond being the matrix surrounding artefacts and ecofacts – either protecting or degrading them – soils and sediments witness of ancient human activities and natural events. However, their study is often a delicate and complex exercise. The reasons are manifold: urban areas are characterized by multiple occupation phases, including recutting and levelling events, often involving many long- and short-time formation processes; excavation trenches are often small, leading to restricted observation windows; sequences often... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Devos, Yannick
Dokumenttyp: Captation vidéo du colloque Lire le sol en archéologie : pratiques de terrain et regards croisés (29/11-01/12/2023
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France)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Inrap
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29469762
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.34692/3pw4-a497

A good knowledge of soils and sediments is mandatory in urban archaeology. Beyond being the matrix surrounding artefacts and ecofacts – either protecting or degrading them – soils and sediments witness of ancient human activities and natural events. However, their study is often a delicate and complex exercise. The reasons are manifold: urban areas are characterized by multiple occupation phases, including recutting and levelling events, often involving many long- and short-time formation processes; excavation trenches are often small, leading to restricted observation windows; sequences often tend to be extremely deep; time constraints, etc. In Brussels, a specific interdisciplinary research protocol has been developed over the last decades to face this complexity (Devos & Degraeve, 2018). More recently it has also been applied on series of Flemish towns (Devos et al., 2020). Within this protocol a central place is occupied by multi-scalar geoarchaeological observations ranging from regional down to ... : Une bonne connaissance des sols et des sédiments est indispensable en archéologie urbaine. En plus d’être la matrice qui entoure les artefacts et les éco-artefacts – les protégeant ou les dégradant – les sols et les sédiments sont les témoins d’anciennes activités humaines et d’événements naturels. Cependant, leur étude est souvent un exercice délicat et complexe. Les raisons en sont multiples : les zones urbaines sont caractérisées par de multiples phases d’occupation, y compris des événements de recoupement et de nivellement, impliquant souvent de nombreux processus de formation à court et à long terme ; les tranchées d’excavation sont souvent petites, ce qui limite les fenêtres d’observation ; les séquences ont souvent tendance à être extrêmement profondes ; les contraintes de temps, etc. À Bruxelles, un protocole de recherche interdisciplinaire spécifique a été développé au cours des dernières décennies pour faire face à cette complexité (Devos & Degraeve, 2018). Plus récemment, il a également été ...