Soil is a natural body occurring at the interface between the lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. As a result, the physical and chemical properties of soils evolve with time, and the reconstruction of their history represents a key to understand past environmental changes. Palaeolimnological techniques such as sediment geochemistry can be used to investigate changes in vegetation history by providing information about catchment soil development. However, due to the lack of conservative pedosignatures, there have been few attempts to reconstruct soil changes from the paleorecord. The main objective of the present work is to reconstruct the soil and environmental history from lake sediments of two small lake basins of the Maurienne Valley ...