Die Table Ronde bildet den Abschluss des mehrjährigen WEAVE-Projektes ”Welcome to the Dark Side: Disclosing the invisible stages of medieval urbanisation through the integrated study of European Dark Earths”. Mit dieser Table Ronde möchten wir den bisher vor allem geoarchäologischen Fokus ausweiten und Forschende aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Epochen zur gemeinsamen Diskussion einladen. 

RATIONALE AND AIMS
Urban Dark Earths – thick dark coloured homogeneous deposits often rich in
archaeological remains – are a common phenomenon in European towns. Their seeming
lack of stratigraphy has in the past resulted in a lack of research or even their discarding.
Recent microscopic approaches, however, have convincingly demonstrated that Dark
Earths contain an abundance of valuable information that can directly be related to
important questions about towns and their formation. The aim of the present Round Table
is to assemble (geo-)archaeologists, historians and archaeoenvironmental specialists to
discuss the implementation of these research techniques in the archaeological field work
and how they have permitted to advance our understanding of town development.

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