Urban Geoarchaeology

Quentin Borderie, Ferréol Salomon

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Quentin Borderie, Ferréol Salomon (Dir.). Urban Geoarchaeology. CNRS Éditions, pp.456, 2024, CNRS Alpha, 9782271149299. hal-04863600

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Quentin Borderie and Ferréol Salomon

Urban Geoarchaeology

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The global spread of urbanisation is having a profound impact on environments, climates and social lives. This gives rise to questions about the sustainability of urban areas, the management of soils and sediments and the socio-environmental construction of spaces. Archaeological investigations show that societies produced a wide variety of different urban forms throughout millennia and across continents. By focusing on human-environment interactions through the study of soils and sediments, geoarchaeological research provides new insights into the different ways of making and living in a city in the long term.

With twenty four contributions written by researchers from all over the world, *Urban Geoarchaeology* expands our knowledge of human-environment interactions and ancient urban lifestyles. This volume brings together substantial and comprehensive elements to understand past urban systems, using new interdisciplinary approaches, case studies of broad interest, and innovative techniques to answer historical questions. It shows how geoarchaeologists are producing and discussing new data on the transformation of landscapes through urbanisation. Processes of urban stratification over time are also better understood. The construction of urban spaces can be analysed from the large scale of the urban systems to the microscale of the soil formation, revealing ancient activities and lifestyles. Finally, *Urban Geoarchaeology* helps to connect the past, the present and the future of our cities.

Quentin Borderie is a field geoarchaeologist, based in Avignon (France), working on the urban environment for twenty years, giving courses at La Sorbonne University. He contributes to the research on urban Dark Earths, floor formation processes, and stratification dynamics in urban areas. He is attached to the CNRS laboratory UMR 7041-ArScAn, in the "Archéologies Environnementales" team.

Ferréol Salomon is a researcher in geoarchaeology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and based in the Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement at Strasbourg (UMR-7362). His research focuses on human-nature interactions between urban societies and deltaic environments over the last millennia. He studied different urban sites in south-west Asia and across the Mediterranean area.

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From left to right: Sedimentary drilling in Ostia (Italy) within the Roman city; archaeological excavation in Beauvais (France) from the top of the 16th century cathedral showing Dark Earths and an 11th century church; star shaped vivianite crystal and a bone through optic microscope cross-polarised light; aerial view of Metz (France) and the Mosel River.

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Urban Geoarchaeology

Scientific editors: Quentin BORDERIE and Ferréol SALOMON

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      <td>2.6. Ancient maps, geotechnical and (geo)archaeological data: GIS integration for the understanding of archaeological sites and for decision making in rescue archaeology</td>
      <td>241</td>
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      <td>Hervé Tronchère-Cottet, Corentin Martinez, Catherine Pothier, Cyrille Ducourthial</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>Section 3 – Building urban spaces: Social spaces, Activities and lifestyles</td>
      <td>261</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Short introduction: Quentin Borderie, Ferréol Salomon</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>3.1. The geoarchaeology of urban ecclesiastical sites in coastal locations; Exeter, UK and Trondheim, Norway.</td>
      <td>267</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Richard Macphail, John Allan, Chris Carey, Ingeborg Sæhle</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
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      <td>3.2. Activities written in the house floors in urban space of Medieval Brno, Czech Republic.</td>
      <td>279</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Lenka Lisá, Antonín Zůbek, Marek Peška</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>3.3. Late Antique Basilia – a fortified settlement on the cathedral hill in Basel (Switzerland). Changes in urban land use based on archaeological and geoarchaeological evidence</td>
      <td>291</td>
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      <td>Christine Pümpin, Markus Asal, Philippe Rentzel</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>3.4. Geoarchaeology in peri-urban environment: a soil micromorphological case study of the “Land of Aynadamar” in Nasrid, Granada (Spain), the northern outskirts of the last Islamic town in Iberia (13th – 16th centuries).</td>
      <td>307</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Rowena Y. Banerjea, Guillermo García-Contreras, Marcos García-García, Luca Mattei, Aleks G. Pluskowski</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>3.5. Prelude to the urban – a study of the monumental earthen architecture of the pre- and early historic site of Arslantepe (Turkey).</td>
      <td>323</td>
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      <td>Susanna Cereda</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>3.6. Urban garden soils – evidence of medieval and early modern horticulture in European towns</td>
      <td>341</td>
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      <td>Jens Heimdahl, Mateusz Krupski</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>Section 4 – Connecting the past, the present and the future of cities</td>
      <td>359</td>
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      <td>4.1. Climate changes, natural hazards and resilience of urban areas.</td>
      <td>361</td>
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      <td>Short introduction: Ferréol Salomon, Quentin Borderie</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>4.1.1. The urban geoarchaeology of imperial China: A case study of the urban renewal and decline of two capital cities, Luoyang and Kaifeng.</td>
      <td>365</td>
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      <td>Michael J. Storozum, Peng Lu, Panpan Chen, Hui Wang, Xiaolin Ren, Junna Zhang, Zhen Qin, Xiaotao Guo, Tao Liu, Sanying Wang, Qifeng Ge, Haiwang Liu</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>4.1.2. Fate of two cities built on sinking ground: slow and fast submergence at Thônis – Heracleion and Canopus, Nile River Delta, Egypt</td>
      <td>381</td>
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      <td>Gilles Brocard, Jean-Philippe Goiran, Damian Robinson</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>4.1.3. Resilience research in geoarchaeological investigations of Mediterranean urban sites</td>
      <td>401</td>
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      <td>Rachel Kulick</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>4.2. Urban geoarchaeology towards future cities.</td>
      <td>417</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Short introduction: Ferréol Salomon, Quentin Borderie</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
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      <td>4.2.1. Urban geoarchaeology and local administration: methods and approaches. The case of the ancient port town of Fréjus (France).</td>
      <td>421</td>
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      <td>Pierre Excoffon, Stéphane Bonnet, Grégory Gaucher</td>
      <td></td>
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      <td>4.2.2. When urban geoarchaeology is explained to all types of audiences: the case of Lyon, France.</td>
      <td>431</td>
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      <td>Stéphane Gaillot, Laurent Strippoli</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Geoarchaeology: towards new interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities in the understanding of urban environments</td>
      <td>443</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Ferréol Salomon, Quentin Borderie</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Urban Geoarchaeology and complexity</td>
      <td>447</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>Denise Pumain</td>
      <td></td>
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