Agricultural terraces are the most widespread archaeological landforms worldwide. Despite their far-reaching prevalence in many inhabited parts of world, soils (hereafter ‘terrace soils’) scarcely studied and nature is poorly defined. This study aims to depict a space–time framework for development calcareous stone-wall bench suggest modifications soil classification mapping. To do so, we exami...

Wetland and floodplain soils in the East African Rift of Kenya provide a record of changing palaeoclimate and palaeohydrology compatible with climate records for the mid-Holocene through the late Holocene Medieval Warm Period (~AD 800–1270) and Little Ice Age (~AD 1270–1850), documented previously in nearby lacustrine sites. Soils forming from volcaniclastic source materials in both Loboi Swamp...

During the taxonomic revision of the Turkish Dianthus species, specimens collected from Bilecik, Seben (Bolu), and Nallıhan (Ankara) were discovered that represent a new species. Its description, images, chorology, ecology, and threat category are provided. It was compared with a closely related species, Dianthuszonatus, and differences are based on its general morphology and seed micromorphology.

A comprehensive investigation is conducted on the archeological sediments from Early Pleistocene site of El Kherba (Algeria), involving sediment and soil micromorphology analyses. yielded Oldowan stone tools associated with animal fossils three levels. The studies aim at assessing sedimentary processes that acted in burial remains identifying microfacies order to gain high-resolution paleoenvir...