WG4 Objective:

• Demonstrate the benefits of incorporating soil science and geophysics during excavationplanning phase to curators, field archaeologists and students.
  
  
• Promote the benefits of soil analyticaltechniques for generating auxiliary data.
  
  
• Develop specialist skills and cross-disciplinary capacity(common language, common problems).
  
  
• Practicaltraining of young researchers and professionals.
  
  

WG4 Tasks:

• Organise Training Schools with practicaldemonstrations on in key technical areas (including soil science, geophysics and geochemistry) (incollaboration with WG2).
  
  
• Develop and distribute training materials though SAGA’s website.
  
  
• Organise panel meetings that are ‘problem’ focussed (in collaboration with WG 1, 2 & 3).
  
  
• Administrate STSMs &‘Access to Experts and Equipment’.
  
  
• Provide online mentoring/forum for the use of equipment, specifictechniques, analytical techniques (in collaboration with WG1).
  
  
• Coordinate Conference Grants aimed at supporting researchers to attend high profile international science and technology related events not specifically organised by SAGA.
  
  

Working Group Leader: Sebastiano D’Amico (sebastiano.damico[at]um.edu.mt)

List of WG4 Members

Sebastiano D’amico (WG leader)	Malta	sebastiano.damico@um.edu.mt
Sebastiano D'Amico (WG Leader)	Malta	sebastiano.damico[at]um.edu.mt
Yuval Goren (WG Deputy)	Israel	ygoren[at]bgu.ac.il
Athos Agapiou	Cyprus	athos.agapiou[at]cut.ac.cy
Elina Aidona	Greece	aidona[at]geo.auth.gr
Kayt Armstrong	United Kingdom	girlwithtrowel[at]gmail.com
Laenger Arthur	France, Metropolitan	arthur.laenger.etu[at]univ-lemans.fr
Zanoci Aurel	Moldova, Republic of	azanoci[at]gmail.com
Rafał Bieńkowski	Poland	rafal.bienkowski[at]ibspan.waw.pl
Emanuele Colica	Malta	emanuele.colica[at]um.edu.mt
Carmen Cuenca-García	Norway	carmen.cuenca-garcia[at]ntnu.no
Philippe De Smedt	Belgium	philippe.desmedt[at]ugent.be
Jan Frolik	Czech Republic	frolik[at]arup.cas.cz
Jan Horák	Czech Republic	jan.horak.science[at]email.cz
Johannes Hugenschmidt	Switzerland	johannes.hugenschmidt[at]ost.ch
Miljenko JURKOVIC	Croatia (Hrvatska)	mjurkovi[at]ffzg.hr
Agnieszka Kaliszewska	Poland	agkaliszewska[at]gmail.com
Agnese Kukela	Latvia	agnese.kukela[at]gmail.com
Vasilache Mariana	Moldova, Republic of	mariana.vasilache[at]nationalmuseum.md
Munteanu Octavian	Moldova, Republic of	ocmunteanu[at]gmail.com
Wesa Perttola	Finland	wesa.perttola[at]gmail.com
Roderick Salisbury	Austria	roderick.salisbury[at]oeaw.ac.at
Ingrid Salvesen	Norway	ingrid.salvesen[at]ntnu.no
Apostolos Sarris	Greece	asarri01[at]ucy.ac.cy
Ladislav Smejda	Czech Republic	smejda[at]fzp.czu.cz
Mercedes Solla	Spain	merchisolla[at]uvigo.es
Davor Stanko	Croatia (Hrvatska)	stankodavor[at]gmail.com
Muhammet Oguz Sunnetci	Turkey	moguzsunnetci[at]ktu.edu.tr
Denis Topal	Moldova, Republic of	denis.topal[at]gmail.com
Martijn van Leusen	Netherlands	p.m.van.leusen[at]rug.nl
Clare Wilson	United Kingdom	c.a.wilson[at]stir.ac.uk