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Archaeobotany in Italian ancient Roman harbours

Laura Sadori, Emilia Allevato, Cristina Bellini, Andrea Bertacchi, more

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology > 2015 > 218 > Complete > 217-230

The present study is a review of the archaeobotanical analyses carried out in the last decade at the three ancient Roman port/dock system sites of Pisae, Portus, and Neapolis. Pollen, plant macrofossils (leaf, wood, seed/fruit macroremains) and wood constituting the shipwrecks were considered, and the results, partly unpublished, integrated and interpreted. Waterlogged sediments from these port areas...

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Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

Anna Maria Mercuri, Emilia Allevato, Daniele Arobba, Marta Bandini Mazzanti, more

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology > 2015 > 218 > Complete > 250-266

Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For the first time, this paper reports on the census of the Holocene archaeological sites that have been studied as part of archaeobotany in Italy (continental Italy, the Italian peninsula and islands) over the last quarter...

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Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement continuity and cereal cultivation in coastal Finland as shown by multiproxy evidence at Bäljars 2 site in SW Finland

Santeri Vanhanen, Satu Koivisto, S. Vanhanen, S. Koivisto

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports > 2015 > 1 > Complete > 38-52

Pre-Roman Iron Age (ca. 500–1BC) occupation was revealed at the site of Bäljars 2 in SW Finland. Archaeobotany, charcoal analysis, and geochemistry were applied to the samples gathered at the site. The results suggest habitation, storage, agriculture, fire-keeping, and plant gathering at the site during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. By that time, the Lepinjärvi basin was surrounded by rich local flora and...

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Novelties and legacies in crops of the Islamic period in the northeast Iberian Peninsula: The archaeobotanical evidence in Madîna Balagî, Madîna Lârida, and Madîna Turṭûša

Natàlia Alonso, Ferran Antolín, Helena Kirchner, N. Alonso, more

Quaternary International > 2014 > 346 > Complete > 149-161

Written sources provide plentiful information on the agricultural plant species present in al-Andalus, and they are also informative with regard to which species were introduced into the Iberian Peninsula during this period. This work approaches the matter from an archaeobotanical perspective, in order to make a first assessment of the species and agricultural practices found in northeast al-Andalus,...

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Desert agriculture at Bir Madhkur: The first archaeobotanical evidence to support the timing and scale of agriculture during the Late Roman/Byzantine period in the hinterland of Petra

Jennifer Ramsay, Andrew M. Smith, J. Ramsay, A.M. Smith

Journal of Arid Environments > 2013 > 99 > Complete > 51-63

This study presents archaeobotanical data that allow for a better understanding of the scale and timing of agricultural production during the Late Roman/Byzantine period (A.D. 284–500) at the site of Bir Madhkur, which lies in the hinterland of the ancient Nabataean capital of Petra, Jordan. The desert of the Wadi Araba region that encompasses Bir Madhkur has not changed significantly since antiquity...

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Chapter 7. Mapping land use with integrated environmental archaeological datasets

John M. Marston, Petra Vaiglova

Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association > 35 > 1 > 73 - 83

Archaeologists have developed tools to reconstruct the locations of farming and animal herding using ecological and digital modeling of ancient landscapes. The determination of where on a landscape farming and herding took place, however, can remain elusive in environments with evidence for substantial geomorphological and/or ecological change since the period of occupation. Archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological...

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Chapter 1. The state of the field: Emerging approaches to the archaeology of agricultural landscapes

Jesse Casana, Madeleine McLeester

Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association > 35 > 1 > 5 - 12

Almost 30 years ago, Naomi Miller and Katheryn Gleason edited the influential volume, The Archaeology of Garden and Field, a guide to the identification and interpretation of evidence for past agricultural practice inscribed within the landscape. Here we introduce a new collection of papers that advance both theoretical discourses and methodological approaches to the study of ancient field systems...

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The medieval croft plužina field system in a mountain region of central Europe: The interdisciplinary record of the earthen field boundaries in Debrné, Czechia

Sahar Poledník Mohammadi, Ivana Šitnerová, Lenka Lisá, Jiří Bumerl, more

Geoarchaeology > 39 > 4 > 428 - 449

The integration of archaeological, historical and geoarchaeological records represents a significant contribution to research into the medieval landscape. This study focuses on the medieval field system in the deserted village of Debrné, located in northeastern Bohemia, Czechia. The village features a well‐preserved croft plužina field system, a typical historical landscape of central Europe. The...

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Early copper age settlement with evidence of copper smelting metallurgy from Horná Mičiná (Central Slovakia)

Tomáš Zachar, Juraj Bartík, Víťazoslav Struhár, Daniel Ozdín, more

Zborník Slovenského národného múzea Archeológia > 2023 > 117 > 7-24

The presented paper shows the preliminary results of an archaeological and geophysical survey carried out in Horná Mičiná – Hájny diel (Central Slovakia). The site documents prehistoric settlement and is located outside the primarily agricultural area of the Zvolen basin. The magnetometric survey showed the existence of positive anomalies, suggesting the presence of settlement structures. The archaeological...

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VÝŠINNÉ SÍDLISKÁ ŽIAR A VEĽKÝ BYSTEREC V KONTEXTE OSÍDLENIA SEVEROKARPATSKEJ SKUPINY NA LIPTOVE A NA ORAVE

Barbora Lofajová Danielová, Martin Furman, Mária Hajnalová

Študijné zvesti > 2023 > 70 > 2 > 239 – 268

The North Carpathian group is an archaeological culture of the central European Late Roman and Early Migration period (4th and the 5th century AD) for which high altitude settlement at difficult to access mountain locations is typical. The choice of such a location has been linked to social and political instability and the proximity of iron ore sources. Here we present archaeological material from...

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Insularity and early domestication: anthropogenic ecosystems as habitat islands

Robert N. Spengler

Oikos > 2022 > 12 > n/a - n/a

Over the past decade research into early domestication has been transformed by the genomics revolution and increased archaeological investigation. Despite clarification of the timing, locations and genetic processes, most scholars still envision evolutionary responses to human innovations, such as sickle harvesting, tilling, selection for docility or directed breeding. Stepping away from anthropocentric...

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Studies of plant impressions preserved on daub excavated at the archaeological sites of the Western Desert in the area of Nabta Playa and Bargat El-Shab

Maria Lityńska-Zając, Przemysław Bobrowski

Folia Quaternaria > 2021/2022 > nr 89/90 > 55--64

The archaeological and archaeobotanical research conducted in southern part in the Western Desert in Egypt included efforts at identifying the plant material preserved in daub. The samples selected for this type of analysis were taken from site E-05-1 in Bargat El-Shab. This site were occupied seasonally by nomadic people from the beginning of the Holocene. The study provide very little data on plant...

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VÝSLEDKY ARCHEOBOTANICKÝCH ANALÝZ Z LOKALITY KOMJATICE-KŇAZOVA JAMA V KONTEXTE LATÉNSKYCH SÍDLISK ZO SLOVENSKA

Michaela Látková, Peter Horváth

Študijné zvesti > 2021 > 68 > 1 > 71 - 86

The main goal of this study is to analyse and the interpretation of plants macro remains files from La Tène localities of southwestern Slovakia with an emphasis on the Komjatice-Kňazova jama site. The obtained results were confronted with each other, a series of different types of analyses were also applied to the researched material, especially to clarify the issue of the relationship of lower settlements...

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Farming and stock-breeding in the La Tène culture communities in Poland

Przemysław Dulęba, Renata Abłamowicz, Agata Sady-Bugajska, Jacek Soida

Acta Archaeologica Carpathica > 2021 > LVI > 257-308

In this article, the basic information on the research on the economy of the La Tène culture communities living in the southern part of Poland in the early and middle La Tène period is presented. The analysis of natural data shows that the local economy of the Celtic settlers from Silesia and Lesser Poland did not differ in quality from that of their countrymen from the area south of the Carpathians...

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ARCHEOBOTANICKÉ NÁLEZY Z POHREBISKA LUŽICKEJ KULTÚRY V TRENČIANSKYCH TEPLICIACH-KAŇOVEJ

Michaela Látková, Roman Kos

Študijné zvesti > 2021 > 68 > 2 > 261 - 281

The aim of this study is present primarily the results of archaeobotanical analysis from a late bronze urn burial cemetery site Trenčianske Teplice-Kaňová. Despite the extensive finds of the urns from urn-field burials in the whole Carpathian Basin region, the application of the archeobotanical methods and research is still marginalized. In the light of this situation, we would like to point out the...

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Building a high‐resolution chronology at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico

K. Tsukamoto, F. Tokanai, T. Moriya, H. Nasu

Archaeometry > 62 > 6 > 1235 - 1266

This paper discusses how detailed analyses of archaeological contexts and macrobotanical remains are critical for building a high‐resolution chronology in archaeological research. While the application of Bayesian modelling has improved chronology‐building significantly, archaeologists have sometimes neglected different dates recovered from the same depositional layer without further scrutiny. Based...

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Last meals inferred from the possible gut contents of a mummy: A case study from Astana Cemetery, Xinjiang, China*

T. Chen, B. Wang, H. Mai, H. Jiang

Archaeometry > 62 > 4 > 847 - 862

The gut contents of ancient humans have been proven to be the most direct evidence for palaeodietary study. In the Xinjiang region of north‐west China, large numbers of mummies are well preserved owing to the extremely dry environment to be found there. Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) combined with multi‐archaeobotanical methods, including macrofossil examination, starch grain analysis,...

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Starchy shells: Residue analysis of precolonial northern Caribbean culinary practices

A. J. Ciofalo, P. T. Sinelli, C. L. Hofman

Archaeometry > 62 > 2 > 362 - 380

Determining culinary practices is critical for understanding phytocultural complexes, transported landscapes and human niche constructions. Starch analysis is an exemplary method for reconstructing human–plant dependencies. However, certain types of artefacts from the Greater Caribbean region, such as flaked lithics, lithic griddles, coral artefacts and shells, have not been extensively analysed for...

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Badania archeologiczne w kościele pw. Imienia Najświętszej Marii Panny w Szczuczynie – sezon 2020

Jakub Michalik

Raport > 2020 > 15 > 219-227

The article describes the archaeological works carried out in February 2020 in the crypts of the church of the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Szczuczyn (Podlaskie Voivodeship). Works in the crypts in Szczuczyn had been carried out since 2013, however in this case the main aim of the work was to collect botanical samples to analyse the vegetation that was used in the early modern funeral rite....

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Archaeobotanical investigations at the earliest horse herder site of Botai in Kazakhstan

Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, E. Lightfoot, X. Liu, J. Jacob, more

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences > 2019 > 11 > 11 > 6243-6258

This paper presents new radiocarbon dates and the results of the first archaeobotanical investigations at Eneolithic Botai site, for the first time aiming to explore the plant food component in the diet of Botai population and if the inhabitants of the Botai were a part of an early crop food exchange network. Our excavation of a hut circle and associated radiocarbon dating placed its occupation within...

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Archaeobotany in Italian ancient Roman harbours

Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement continuity and cereal cultivation in coastal Finland as shown by multiproxy evidence at Bäljars 2 site in SW Finland

Novelties and legacies in crops of the Islamic period in the northeast Iberian Peninsula: The archaeobotanical evidence in Madîna Balagî, Madîna Lârida, and Madîna Turṭûša

Desert agriculture at Bir Madhkur: The first archaeobotanical evidence to support the timing and scale of agriculture during the Late Roman/Byzantine period in the hinterland of Petra

Chapter 7. Mapping land use with integrated environmental archaeological datasets

Chapter 1. The state of the field: Emerging approaches to the archaeology of agricultural landscapes

The medieval croft plužina field system in a mountain region of central Europe: The interdisciplinary record of the earthen field boundaries in Debrné, Czechia

Early copper age settlement with evidence of copper smelting metallurgy from Horná Mičiná (Central Slovakia)

VÝŠINNÉ SÍDLISKÁ ŽIAR A VEĽKÝ BYSTEREC V KONTEXTE OSÍDLENIA SEVEROKARPATSKEJ SKUPINY NA LIPTOVE A NA ORAVE

Insularity and early domestication: anthropogenic ecosystems as habitat islands

Studies of plant impressions preserved on daub excavated at the archaeological sites of the Western Desert in the area of Nabta Playa and Bargat El-Shab

VÝSLEDKY ARCHEOBOTANICKÝCH ANALÝZ Z LOKALITY KOMJATICE-KŇAZOVA JAMA V KONTEXTE LATÉNSKYCH SÍDLISK ZO SLOVENSKA

Farming and stock-breeding in the La Tène culture communities in Poland

ARCHEOBOTANICKÉ NÁLEZY Z POHREBISKA LUŽICKEJ KULTÚRY V TRENČIANSKYCH TEPLICIACH-KAŇOVEJ

Building a high‐resolution chronology at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico

Last meals inferred from the possible gut contents of a mummy: A case study from Astana Cemetery, Xinjiang, China*

Starchy shells: Residue analysis of precolonial northern Caribbean culinary practices

Badania archeologiczne w kościele pw. Imienia Najświętszej Marii Panny w Szczuczynie – sezon 2020

Archaeobotanical investigations at the earliest horse herder site of Botai in Kazakhstan

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