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Waste Management and Waste Disposal Detected by Combination of Analytical Methods: Late Bronze Age Březnice Settlement Site (South Bohemia)

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 525-548, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT Waste disposal processes and landfill management are crucial subjects in the field of settlement archaeology. Our study is focused on understanding the processes that are connected to the formation of the infills of settlement features and the recycling of the building materials (daub and wood) and waste management.
Tereza Šálková, Kristýna Budilová, Jaromír Kovárník, Antonín Majer, Jan Novák, Jaroslav Pavelka, Barbora Strouhalová, Libor Vobejda, Ondřej Šťastný, Martin Kuna, Ondřej Chvojka   +10 more
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Exploring the past through lynchet landscapes in the Vosges Mountains and the Lorraine Plateau (France)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 300-319, May/June 2024.
Abstract Lynchets are ridges formed by erosion and sediment accumulation downstream of agricultural plots and offer valuable insights into past agricultural activity. These microtopographies cover vast areas and serve as indicators of historical changes in land use. As a result, their ubiquity across Europe makes them particularly interesting.
Benjamin Keller, Robin Vincent, Dominique Schwartz, Damien Ertlen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE VEGETATION HISTORY OF THE SHEPHELAH, SOUTHERN LEVANT: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE–HELLENISTIC PERIOD (c.2000–100 BC)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 23-42, February 2024.
Summary Although the Shephelah region (Israel) is of a great archaeological significance and has been intensively excavated, very little is known about its landscape history. This study presents two large‐scale charred wood assemblages (>2300 items) that were recovered from Tel Azekah and Tel Lachish in order to reconstruct the ancient vegetation of ...
Minji Jin, Oded Lipschits, Dafna Langgut
wiley   +1 more source

El ser humano y la leña en la cordillera de Mendoza (Argentina) a lo largo del Holoceno: sitio arqueológico Arrollo Malo 3 Humans and firewood in the andean Mendoza (Argentina) along the Holocene: the archaeological site Arroyo Malo 3

Magallania, 2012
El objetivo del presente trabajo es caracterizar cuali-cuantitativamente el registro antracológico del sitio arqueológico Arroyo Malo 3, que se emplaza en el valle del río Atuel, Mendoza, y cuya secuencia temporal comprende desde el Holoceno Temprano ...
DIEGO ANDREONI F, AYLEN CAPPARELLI
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The Forest Refugium of the Bükk Mountains, Hungary—Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Late Pleistocene

Diversity
The Rejtek I. Rock Shelter in the Bükk Mountains of the inner Western Carpathian region plays an important role in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental historical analyses.
Katalin Náfrádi, Pál Sümegi
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Fuel Resources for Ferrous Metallurgy in the Perm Cis-Urals in the Medieval Period (experience in determining charcoal by scanning electron microscopy)

Археология евразийских степей
The paper presents the results of an instrumental anatomical study of charcoal. The aim of this work is to characterize the metallurgical process. There are several examples of charcoal as an object of study in the literature.
Andrey R. Smertin, Ekaterina A. Kurunova
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Anthracology: past disturbances and vegetation evolution

, 2012
One of CoForChange aims is to highlight the relationship between human settlement and plant distribution. Recent studies show that anthropogenic disturbances have had an impact on vegetation, including enabling the expansion of light-demanding species (see Newsl. No 4).
openaire   +3 more sources

Contributions of anthracology to the knowledge of the palaeoecological and palaeoeconomical framework of Juslibol (Zaragoza) castle in Medieval Age

Zephyrus, 2016
The results of the wood charcoal analysis of plant macroremains contained in the walls of the Juslibol (Zaragoza) medieval castle built in Islamic period (tenth century) are presented. Analyzed samples have been recovered in fallen walls. The approach to
Marta ALCOLEA GRACIA, Luis Alberto LONGARES ALADREN, Raquel CUNILL ARTIGAS, María ROYO NAVASCUÉS   +3 more
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L’exploitation forestière autour de Die durant l’Antiquité d’après l’étude des charbons de bois : dynamiques de l’économie et des paysages végétaux

Pallas
The preventive excavation of two ancient sites on the Die plain sheds light on the timber economy and plant exploitation during Antiquity by combining anthracology and various palaeoenvironmental approaches.
Christophe Vaschalde, Benoît Brossier, Carine Cenzon-Salvayre, Thibaud Canillos, André Rivalan, Margaux Tillier, Clément Flaux   +6 more
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Gestion du combustible et dynamique des boisements à l’époque romaine. L’exemple des ateliers potiers d’Embournière (Neffiès, Hérault) et de Las Cravieros (Fanjeaux, Aude)

Pallas
The question of afforestation and its management is essential to understand the ancient economy. The forests provided the Roman Empire with timber, fuel, and fed some of the livestock. However, this economy of wood during Antiquity remains unknown.
Julien Chardonneau-Henneuse, Christophe Vaschalde, Nuria Rovira, Benoît Favennec, Benoît Brossier, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Stéphane Mauné   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source