DEUQUA members are chairing a session at LAC 2026.
he abstract deadline is Friday, the 31.10.2025: https://lac2026.com/
Session 28: Landscape Archaeology of Riverine Environments
Markus Fuchs (University of Giessen), Hans von Suchodoletz (University of Jena / University of Leipzig), Christian Tinapp (University of Leipzig / Saxony Archaeological Heritage Office)
Rivers and their environments are important areas in the history of mankind. As rivers provide vital resources such as water, food or energy, and represent important traffic routes, these places
have always been privileged areas for their economic use and settlement and have often been a hotspot of cultural development. For this reason, in addition to natural changes, riverine landscapes
have always been subject to anthropogenic change, with vegetation or river courses being altered, and infrastructure such as mills, bridges or weirs being installed.
However, it is not only the changes along the river course that need to be considered, but also the changes and activities within the entire catchment such as agriculture, charcoal production or
mining had a direct or indirect impact on riverine environments, their societies and socio-political and economical systems. To better understand these feedback mechanisms between humans and the
environment, we welcome all geoarchaeological and archaeological contributions dealing with the landscape archaeology of riverine environments and their hinterland, working at different spatial
and temporal scales and using different colluvial and alluvial geoarchives, proxies and landscape reconstruction techniques.