Is It the Floor or Isn't It the Floor? How to Interpret the Homogeneous Infill of a Prehistoric House? The floors of sunken houses can provide important insights into how these spaces were used and into the processes that shaped them, thereby contributing to broader interpretation at an archaeological...

New paper out in Geoarchaeology: Is It the Floor or Isn’t It the Floor?
We present a practical way to interpret homogeneous house floors using paired sampling and geoarchaeology.
doi.org/10.1002/gea....
#geoarchaeology #archaeology #IronAge #micromorphology #pXRF

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 15th, 2025 Burn slowly the candle of life. Vol II No 12 438 links Curated *Antarctic ice core data bolster predictions of ocean heat during glacials ...

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 15th, 2025

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#AMOC #core #EPICA #"noble gases" #fireplaces #Ukraine #microstratigraphic #micromorphology #light #sleep #bedroom #waking #Kahramanmaraş #ALOS-2 #slop-slip #plates #1-methylxanthine #learning #neuroprotection #antioxidant

Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...

Very excited to share our new paper on Fire Use during the LGM at Korman'9, Ukraine! Check it out!
#geoarchaeology, #micromorphology, #pyrotechnology, #LGM, #Paleolithic, #archaeology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The stratigraphic biography of an archaeological site. Timing depositional events
https://buff.ly/4jhQ8P9
#EarlyView #OpenAccess #3DModelling #ChronometricModelling #Micromorphology #Stratigraphy #taphonomy

A photo taken with a microscope of a chunk of soil inside another soil. The chunk has smaller chunks of other soil material inside of it.

#Micromorphology is such a great tool. Soils can contain chunks of older soils, which can contain chunks of older soils. And you can tell the relative age based on what is inside what. This can help use reconstruct changes to the local environment. It aggregates all the way down. Soil-ception

#ThinsSectionThursday
Fecal pellets or droppings of #Oribatid mites (Od) and #Collembola (Cd) observed in a zoOH horizon of a Moder Humus or #Humipedon in Luxembourg.
#soilfauna #soil #humus #micromorphology #Thinsection

Check out our paper in Quaternary Science Reviews on the #micromorphology of sediments from Tam Pa Ling cave, led by my fantastic PhD student Vito Hernandez

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today I went to see Wenceslas Square in Prague. The Dark Earth profile was uncovered there. In the photos you can see the early medieval soil below, with the waste layers of the New Town (black). Let's see what geoarcheological analysis will show.
#geoarchaeology #darkearth #micromorphology

Controversial claims about extinct humans are stirring up evolution research. Here's how the mess co... How, when and where did modern humans evolve? Nobody has all the answers, but studying rock and dirt can put the debate on firmer footing.

Controversial claims about extinct humans are stirring up evolution research. Here’s how the mess could have been avoided.

#HumanEvolution #HomoNaledi #ScientificControversy #Archaeology #Micromorphology #ResearchMethods #PeerReview

theconversation.com/controversia...

#MicroMorphology