Dear Inés,
Sadly , the teaching of the identification of waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, an area of environmental archaeology that Britain was so strong in during the 1990s has largely died out in British universities. Archaeology departments never took expertise in it seriously, probably because the training required took took too long, it was difficult to make up reference collections and it was not seen as science because it did not involve expensive machinery. The late flourishing of my career has been little related to my two areas of real expertise, waterlogged plant macros and insects.
English Heritage does still retain the skills but there are few of us left.
Best wishes,
Mark
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Subject: waterlogged plant id
Dear list members
Are you aware of any intensive course/seminar/training session for the identification of waterlogged plant remains (not necessarily from archaeological sites) open to visiting students, preferentially in the UK or taught in English?
Thanks for your suggestions
Inés López-Dóriga
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