Event Details

Date:
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Room:
443
UQ Location:
Michie Building (St Lucia)
Event category(s):

Event Contact

Name:
Associate Professor Andrew Fairbairn
Phone:
52780
Email:
a.fairbairn@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:
Social Science

Event Description

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Abstract: Soil micromorphology has been a recognised technique in soil science for several decades due to its ability to describe, interpret and measure soil features at a microscopic level. Recent studies have shown how beneficial micromorphology is in archaeological soils, especially for providing information about cultural material and paleoenvironments in archaeological sites. Professor Paul Goldberg, a pioneer in micromorphology and geoarchaeology, will discuss the history and use of its application in archaeology and how it can be used to assist in the interpretation of the cultural history of a site.

Speaker: Paul Goldberg is a geologist by training and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Wollongong and a guest Professor, University of Tübingen. In his early days at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (70s and 80s), he started his research career studying Quaternary landscapes in Israel associated with archaeological sites and later, on prehistoric cave sediments. At this time, he began to develop the technique of micromorphology and its application to geoarchaeological problems, resulting in the publication of Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology (M.A. Courty, P. Goldberg, R.I. Macphail, Cambridge University Press, 1989), which has been supplemented by Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology (CUP, Macphail and Goldberg, 2018). In the early 90s, he was a researcher at the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL), U-Texas Austin, studying the geology and micromorphology of Paleoindian and other Prehistoric sites; he retired from the (now defunct) Department of Archaeology Boston University in 2014. His current research includes the application of micromorphological techniques to Pleistocene caves (La Ferrassie, Pech de l’Azé IV) in France, Siberia, and Indonesia using micromorphology, and possibly open-air sites in Australia. In 2006 he published with R.I. Macphail, Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology (Wiley-Blackwell), and more recently a co-authored book with Takis Karkanas, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites: Understanding the Geoarchaeological Matrix (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).

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