Hi Diego!

Some professionals who work with the charcoal burners:

Germany:

Thomas Ludemann working in the study of making charcoal in the Black Forest. Your profile Researchgate is poor but you can find his article on my resarchgate profile in the book "Wood and Charcoal". In this book there are some articles about that.

Olliver Nelle also work in Germany. See you profile in researchgate.

If you want to see a video on charcoal burners:

http://www.planet-schule.de/sf/php/sendungen.php?sendung=9099

France:

Laurent Fabre

Bernard Davase

Spain:

These papers may interest you, but it not is charcoal burner:

Kaal et al. Long-term deforestation in NW Spain: Linking the Holocene fire history to vegetation change and human activities. Quaternary Science Reviews

Kaal et al. Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, pollen and non-synanthropic palynomorph pollen proxies. Journal of Archaeological Science

Hi Diego,

Try the work of Karkanas in Pinnacle Point 5-6 and of Vera Aldeias in France and Berna in Wonderwerk Cave.

Cheers,

Telmo

Dear Telmo,

thank you very much.

My question refers to making charcoal from wood (charcoal mounds and so on), not to 'charcoal' fragments found in archaeological context.

Best,

Diego 

Hi Diego, it seems that didn't work the first time, so I´ll add my answer again. Check out the PhD of Itxaso Euba, there might be references there that you can use (see the link). Also I would check the work of Tània Polonio, she is doing a PhD on micromorphology of structures similar to those you need. 

Best,

Dan

https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00454006/document

Hi Diego,

this article may be of interest:

Anne Gebhardt, Impact of charcoal production activities on soil profiles: the micromorphological point of view, ArcheoSciences 31 [En ligne], 2007, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2009, consulté le 19 janvier 2016.

URL : http://archeosciences.revues.org/833

Best wishes,

Stefan

Hi Diego!

Some professionals who work with the charcoal burners:

Germany:

Thomas Ludemann working in the study of making charcoal in the Black Forest. Your profile Researchgate is poor but you can find his article on my resarchgate profile in the book "Wood and Charcoal". In this book there are some articles about that.

Olliver Nelle also work in Germany. See you profile in researchgate.

If you want to see a video on charcoal burners:

http://www.planet-schule.de/sf/php/sendungen.php?sendung=9099

France:

Laurent Fabre

Bernard Davase

Spain:

These papers may interest you, but it not is charcoal burner:

Kaal et al. Long-term deforestation in NW Spain: Linking the Holocene fire history to vegetation change and human activities. Quaternary Science Reviews

Kaal et al. Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, pollen and non-synanthropic palynomorph pollen proxies. Journal of Archaeological Science

Diego, I'd send email queries to the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology, the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, the Virginia Division of State Archaeology, and the Maryland Historic Trust Archeology Program. That area of the United States Atlantic seaboard had a tradition of digging shallow ditches (runnels) on knolls or hill slopes, piling up resin-rich pine, covering it with pine straw, then dirt, and lighting it. The flowing resin would run down the ditches and pool in a catch-basin. After the pitch was extracted for the naval stores industry, the smoldering earth-capped fire was smothered out and the charcoal was removed and sold to the nearby cities for fuel. If this is the type of charcoal production info you are seeking, the above State Archaeology Offices should have someone who can recommend reports on investigations that have been performed at sites like that or they will know someone who has info. I know 20 years ago I helped record one such site in Maryland, but we did not excavated or take samples, just recorded and mapped the surface expression.

Here is the reference of a recent book (mainly in French) including papers about this subject:

https://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/charbonnage-charbonniers-charbonnieres

I've done some thin section (micromorphology) in my early ages on charcoal kilns.

But it wasn't published (not a bad thing i presume). May be you will find some useful references starting from there also (see Mathieu's advice first) :

https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00808803/

& for micromorphology : Article Impact of charcoal production activities on soil profiles: t...