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Julie Boreham

Visiting Scholar

Research

Julie Boreham is a Geoarchaeologist with a special interest in British Prehistory and landscape evolution. Her current research, in collaboration with Dr Steve Boreham and other members of the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, involves the development of new techniques and methodologies for the impregnation and thin sectioning of traditionally difficult and challenging soils and sediments using polymer-based resin. After five years of research, she is currently involved with writing up her results as a technical manual and published papers for use by all practising micromorphologists.

Micromorphology is the description and study of thin sections of soils and sediments. It is used in a variety of cogniscent disciplines to study depositional histories, palaeoenvironments and to reconstruct ancient landscapes and cultural practices.

Julie originally trained and worked at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, she now runs her own consultancy - Earthslides.com

Thin section of laminated rodden deposits from Over, Cambridgeshire

Publications

Recent Publications

• Leszczynska, K., Boreham, J. & Boreham, S. 2012. A novel methodological approach for thin-section description and its application to periglacially disturbed Pleistocene deposits from Danbury, Essex, UK. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw, 90-4, 271 - 291.
• Boreham, S., Conneller, C., Milner, N., Taylor, B., Needham, A., Boreham, J. and Rolfe, C. J. 2011. Geochemical Indicators of Preservation Status and Site Deterioration at Star Carr. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 2833-2857.
• Balbo, A., Boreham, J., Iriarte, E., Arranz, E. A., Zapata, L., Lancelotti, C., Madella, M., Braemer F. & Ibáñez, J. J. 2011. Early PPNB (pre-pottery Neolithic B) Burnt Layers in a Thin-section from Tell Qarassa North (Sweida, Southern Syria). International Union of Soil Sciences - Commission 1.1 Soil Morphology & Micromorphology Newsletter, 8, 1-19.
• French, C., Periman, R., Scott Cummings, L., Hall, S., Goodman-Elgar, M & Boreham, J. 2009. Holocene Alluvial Sequences, Cumulic Soils and Fire Signatures in the Middle Rio Puerco Basin at Guadalupe Ruin, New Mexico'. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 24, No 5. 638-676.