IsoCulture
Cultural regimes written into soil isotopes
Cultural regimes written into soil isotopes
Cultural isoscapes of past societies
Isotopic & social organisation of cultural land-use and regional epigenetic legacies
A new framework for reading soils and landscapes as long-term archives of human land-use decisions.
IsoCulture is a conceptual framework for interpreting stable isotope patterns as outcomes of long-term cultural land-use regimes.
Real archaeological landscapes shaped by historically grounded land-use practices.
By integrating archaeology, soil science, and geochemistry to link isotopic variability with long-term social decisions.
IsoCulture shifts isotope research from short-term biomass signals to soils as long-term cultural archives, enabling historically grounded interpretations of human–landscape interaction.
Core regions, pilot studies, and comparative case studies included in the IsoCulture framework.
Geological background provides the long-term environmental framework controlling soil formation and baseline geochemical conditions. The map uses the official 1:50,000 geological map of the Czech Republic via a live WMS service.
Archaeologist and geoarchaeologist specializing in archaeological geochemistry, micromorphology, and spatial analysis.
Responsible for project coordination, development of analytical workflows, design and supervision of sampling campaigns, data integration, and interpretation of results.
Geochemist and isotope specialist responsible for Sr and S isotope analyses, laboratory procedures, and interpretation of analytical results.
Core contributor during Years 3–5 of the project.
Specialist in historical land-use analysis focusing on cadastral, military, and topographic sources.
He will conduct historical landscape reconstructions covering the past 300 years to complement isotope-based environmental data.
Archaeologist at the Centre for Research in Archaeology, Landscape and Heritage (CISPAC), University of Santiago de Compostela.
Specialist in early medieval rural landscapes of north-western Iberia, agrarian practices, and archaeological field supervision.
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Haifa and former PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015–2020) focused on resilience and collapse in the Negev Desert.
He will coordinate sampling activities in Israel, drawing on his long-term research sites and well-documented monastic landscapes of the Negev Desert, and contribute to the development of the IsoCulture concept into ERC-oriented studies (M. Janovský as PI).