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TerrACE SIGNED

Terrace Archaeology and Culture in Europe

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TerrACE project word cloud

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Project "TerrACE" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET Organization address address: HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 city: TROMSO postcode: 9019 website: http://uit.no/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Norway [NO]
Total cost	2˙662˙929 €
EC max contribution	2˙662˙929 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-ADG
Funding Scheme	ERC-ADG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-12-01 to 2023-11-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET Organization address address: HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 city: TROMSO postcode: 9019 website: http://uit.no/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NO (TROMSO)	coordinator	1˙757˙066.00
2	PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG Organization address address: KAPITELGASSE 4-6 city: SALZBURG postcode: 5020 website: www.uni-salzburg.at contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	AT (SALZBURG)	participant	307˙672.00
3	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Organization address address: VIA 8 FEBBRAIO 2 city: PADOVA postcode: 35122 website: www.unipd.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (PADOVA)	participant	207˙632.00
4	UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA Organization address address: GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 585 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8007 website: http://www.ub.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (BARCELONA)	participant	157˙910.00
5	UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Organization address address: PLACE DE L UNIVERSITE 1 city: LOUVAIN LA NEUVE postcode: 1348 website: www.uclouvain.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (LOUVAIN LA NEUVE)	participant	132˙512.00
6	UNIVERSITY OF YORK UNIVERSITY OF YORK Organization address address: HESLINGTON city: YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE postcode: YO10 5DD website: http://www.york.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE)	participant	100˙135.00

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Project objective

Large areas of agricultural terracing have been abandoned and are being destroyed in Europe. TerrACE will develop a transferrable methodology of archaeological protocols for understanding the creation, maintenance and use of terraces over the longue durée, thereby informing strategies for the sustainable management of these environmental-fragility hotspots. Terraces and lynchets are hallmarks of complex Prehistoric to Post-Medieval societies and were critical for the sustainability of many European societies (including the Greeks & Romans). However, we typically know less about them than any other archaeological site type, although they were one of the first transformations of natural into cultural landscapes, which in many cases persisted to the 20th century. Key archaeological questions are: how old are terrace systems, how were they used, did they reduce soil erosion and are they carbon sinks? The answers to these questions have high relevance in Europe today as terraces can combine high yields with decreased erosion and fire risk, whilst increasing social resilience and food security in the face of environmental change.

TerrACE will be a step-change in our archaeological approach by integrating a raft of new and innovative scientific techniques through an exemplary study of the creation, operation and abandonment of terraced landscapes on a N-S climatic transect of well-known/excavated terraces across Europe. TerrACE has 5 objectives; 1) improving terrace-landscape mapping, 2) multiple dating typical terrace systems, 3) determining history of use and management, 4) understanding the role of terraces in carbon storage, and 5) outreach to promote terraces as part of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Landscapes (UNESCO GIAHS). TerrACE is only now feasible due to the development of techniques including LiDAR, direct sediment dating, palaeoenvironmental proxies, soil carbon modelling and the innovatory use of ancient DNA on terrace palaeosols.

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