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Taming Trees, Shaping Forests, and Managing Woodlands as Resources for Understanding Past Societies. Contributions and Current Limits of Dendro-Anthracology and Anthraco-Isotopy

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In many societies, livelihood strategies are based on a combination of economic strategies, including natural resources such as trees for wood, leaves, and fruits. Archeological wood charcoals are residues of human activity related to fire.
Alexa Dufraisse   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Enhancing data collection for palaeoenvironmental approaches in anthracology: X-ray microCT and ecological anatomy

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology
X-ray microtomography has emerged as a valuable technique in archaeology for over a decade, aiding in the recording, preservation, and analysis of artifacts.
Cristina Marilin Calo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Collaborative anthracology and cultural understandings of wood charcoal in Marra Country (northern Australia)

open access: yesArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences
AbstractThis paper presents results from the first collaborative anthracological (archaeological wood charcoal analysis) study in northern Australia’s southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region. The analysis focused on charcoal from a Late Holocene combustion feature and surrounding dispersed charcoal on a buried floor surface.
Matthew Walsh   +7 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2015
This article considers the study of wood and dung fuel use in antiquity across Southwest Asia by anthracologists and archaeobotanists. In recent years, the socially conditioned nature of fuel use has been highlighted and many scholars are stressing the ...
Alexia Smith   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Les données paléoenvironnementales sur les sites archéologiques. Constats et retours d’expérience

open access: yesArchéopages, 2022
In the framework of archaeological operations, palaeo-environmental data have always had particular status. Taking them into account is not a new phenomenon, but this was formalized only in the last decades, and their use was once more highlighted by the
Élise Nectoux   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The cremation structures of the Roman Empire: anthracological data versus historical sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
ISSN: : 0210-3729International audienceDuring the excavation of the Roman necropolis site Richeaume (Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France), cremation primary structures have been identified.
Cenzon-Salvayre, Carine, Durand, Aline
core   +4 more sources

Medieval rural landscapes and social change in Northern Spain: the archaeobotanical record for Zaballa (Alava, Basque Country) [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2019
In this paper, anthracological and palynological records of the Medieval deserted village of Zaballa in Alava (Basque Country, Northern Spain) are used to examine the transformation of rural landscapes.
Riccardo Santeramo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Los Aljezares archaeological site (Alicante, Spain) and the MIS 6/5 open‐air settlement in the Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 37, Issue 6, Page 1091-1111, August 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT The record of open‐air Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula—specifically in the Mediterranean basin—is scarce, hampering the interpretation of the landscape use strategies developed by Neanderthals in this area. In this work, we present Los Aljezares, a new Middle Palaeolithic site found in Pleistocene fluvio‐lacustrine deposits ...
ALEIX EIXEA   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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