The fact that Obrębski is mainly recognized today as the researcher on Polesie notwithstanding, it was his research experience from Macedonia under Malinowski's direction which enabled him to establish such interesting and pioneering results on the Polesie region. The topic of this research was the emergence from isolation of the inhabitants of the traditional villages and the processes of ethnical and national assimilation. However, the procedures of research developed and tested in Macedonia have been used in the later research by Obrębski, mainly in the Polesie region. The majority of the volume of Obrębski's research and papers prepared by him on the subject of Macedonian ritual, magic, family and village community, has not been published during Obrębski's lifetime. student of Bronislaw Malinowski, Obrębski employed in his research the theory and procedures of the functional approach pioneered by Malinowski. Obrębski was originally a student of Kazimierz Moszyński and his first research into the material culture of the Balkan region was done under Prof. The author discusses the procedure and the results of this research in the wider context of the scientific biography of the researcher. The paper is concerned with the field research conducted in 1932-33 by Józef Obrębski in the Poreche region of Macedonia. Most new data are presented in the sections entitled Quaternary Deposits and Soils and Holocene Depositional History. This paper provides an introduction to the regional geologic history of Tunisia and the forming of the modern landscape with some emphasis on the origin and provenance of ore and building stone resources in the field area. Recent large scale erosion combined with re-deposition of eroded material in topographically lower areas could have destroyed some archaeological sites, buried others, thereby distorting the archaeological record at the present surface.
The evolution of the Tunisian landscape becomes especially important for an archaeological survey which concentrates on the countryside and not on the cities. This geoarchaeological study of the eastern Segermes valley in Tunisia was carried out to determine the Late Quaternary stratigraphy, the Holocene depositional rate, the extent of environmental changes and their driving force, phases of soil instability and the past and present soil quality.
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