This working group was initiated in 1990 by Richard Macphail at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL), and with the encouragement of co-workers Marie-Agnès Courty (CNRS, France) and Paul Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; now Emeritus professor at Boston University, USA) (Courty et al. 1989). The first full workshop was organized at Birmingham University (with Susan Limbrey). A pattern developed comprising approximately alternating UK and European venues and organized at Cambridge (C. French, x2), Sheffield (C. de Rouffignac), Stirling (D. Davidson), and UCL (R. Macphail, x3), for example, along with Amersfoort, Netherlands (D. Huisman); Basel, Switzerland (P. Rentzel,x2); Brno, Czech Republic (L. Lisa); Dijon (D. Sordoillet) and Rennes (A. Gebhardt), France; Frankfurt, Germany (H. Thiemeyer); and Poviglio (C. Nicosia and M. Cremaschi), Pisa (G. Boschian, x3), and Milan (L. Trombino), Italy, e.g., Pisa 1998 (Arpin et al. 1998). Since 2014 ad hoc...
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Macphail, R.I. (2019). Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Working Group. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_890-2
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