International Paleopedology meeting
On-line conference June 10-11, 2021
International Paleopedology meeting
On-line conference June 10-11, 2021
10 Jun 2021 - 11 Jun 2021
Dates
Jun 10th - 11th, 2021
Summary
International Union of Soil Science
International Quaternary Union Working Group
Paleopedology Commission
Researchers of the Quaternary and the Anthropocene (INCUA)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Russian Academy of Sciences
On-line conference
June 10-11, 2021
As a consequence of the pandemic, the International Commission on Paleopedology of
IUSS decides to organize a two-day-on-line meeting with scientific sessions, in order to
ensure everyone’s health and safely and to not limit participation due to travel
restrictions. During the online meeting, we propose to discuss the contribution of
paleopedology to understanding the interaction of societies with their environment
throughout the whole history of hominids and from the other hand – the feedback that
soil science could receive studying types, rates of pedogenetic processes in the ancient
anthropogenic contexts.
Paleosols (Soils?) and ancient societies: from early humans till
industrial revolution
1. Walking over paleosols in and out of Africa: paleopedological indicators of
early human ecology along the routes of initial peopling of the world.
2. Soil mantle and ancient agriculture: transformation, degradation, resilience.
Paleopedological indicators of ancient land use. Man-made soils and soil
horizons: artificial terraces, raised fields, plaggen.
3. Features, processes and evolution of urban pedogenesis: settlement soils from
Palaeolithic to Industrial era. Stratigraphy, microstratigraphy, and
micromorphology of the archaeological soil-sedimentary sequences and living
floors as a record/memory/archive of site formation processes, and on-site life
cycles
4. Soil as raw material for ancient technologies (earth architecture, ceramic etc.):
provenance, chaîne opératoire, environmental effects
5. Soil chronosequences on the artificial landsurfaces as a tool for evaluating
timescales, rates and characteristic times of pedogenetic processes
Organising Committee:
Maria Bronikova – Chair of the Paleopedology Comission. Russian Academy of
Sciences
Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo – Vicechair of the Paleopedology Comission. Institute of
Geology, UNAM.
Sergey Sedov – Institute of Geology, UNAM
Berenice Solís-Castillo, Researchers of the Quaternary and the Anthropocene (INCUA)
Georgina Ibarra-Arzave – Secretary of the on-line conference. Institute of Ecosystems
and Sustentability Research
Deadlines:
Abstract reception until May 15th
Program publication: June 1st
The on-line conference will be on the zoom platform, hosted by Institute of Geology.