This special issue results from a session organised in the 28th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Conference in Budapest (2022), entitled ‘Sediment and soil archives to decipher human-environment interactions in wetland landscapes from the Neolithic to the XXth century’. Its objective was to bring together experiences and results of different multidisciplinary approaches of socio-environmental interactions in wetland landscapes, fostering multi-proxy data comparison and integration across a diversity of chronologies, geographical settings and cultural contexts. The collection of papers in this Special Issue includes a selection of the contributions presented to this session, with study cases from several European regions and variegated natural environments, employing a variety of methodological approaches and addressing a range of significant topics. These include ancient harbours and navigability, taphonomic challenges in wetlands, long-term change of coastal landscapes, interaction of prehistoric societies with fluvial systems, and study of intra-urban wetlands, among others. Together, the contributions included in this Special Issue give a rich overview of the great potential of multidisciplinary palaeoenvironmental, geoarchaeological and environmental archaeology approaches applied to wetland landscapes, and their capacity to address meaningful research questions about the complex socio-environmental interactions they support.
Mayoral et al. (Thu,) studied this question.