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Cultivated plants in medieval Kraków (Poland), with special reference to amaranth (Amaranthus lividus L. cf. var lividus) and ruderal communities

Acta Palaeobotanica, 2015
This paper summarises archaeobotanical studies of plant macroremains derived from medieval town deposits of Kraków, focusing on cultivated plants. Correspondence analysis was used in interpreting the botanical data and their archaeological context ...
Mueller-Bieniek Aldona, Walanus Adam, Zaitz Emil   +2 more
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The Archaeobotany of Late Medieval Plant Remains

, 2018
This chapter considers the application of archaeobotany to the later medieval period in Britain with reference to selected sites. The strengths and weaknesses of methods and evidence are explained. The most common plants remains are cereals but fruit and
Lisa Moffett
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Thirty Years of Interdisciplinary Research at the Site of Pistiros [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2017
The Thracian land was a very attractive place for the ancient Greeks and their economic expansion. At the end of the 5th century BC, the Greek inland emporion, known as Pistiros, was founded on the upper Maritsa River in inner Thrace, today south ...
Lenka Parvoničová, Jan Bouzek
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Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: Practice, Potential and Prospects

, 2015
Archaeobotany is the study of plant remains from archaeological contexts. Despite Australasian research being at the forefront of several methodological innovations over the last three decades, archaeobotany is now a relatively peripheral concern to ...
Bestel, Sheahan, Atchison, Jennifer, Barton, Huw, Prebble, Matthew, Specht, Jim Richard, Matthews, Peter, Parr, Jeff, Torrence, Robin, Bowdery, Doreen, Kennedy, Amanda, Denham, Tim, Lewis, Tara, Fullagar, Richard, Haberle, Simon, Field, Judith, Robertson, Gail, Crowther, Alison, Dolby, Nic, Lentfer, Carol, Matheson, Carney, Austin, Jeremy J., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Horrocks, Mark, Nugent, Sue   +23 more
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Cloggs Cave pollen sequences, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (SE Australia): 25,000 years of cultural plant use and changing environments

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
In southeastern Australia, GunaiKurnai caves are known by current Aboriginal Elders and from nineteenth century ethnographic documents as special places used by mulla-mullung (“clever men” and “clever women”) for the practice of magic and medicine ...
Elle Grono, Elle Grono, Bruno David, Bruno David, Janelle Stevenson, Janelle Stevenson, Joanna Fresløv, Russell Mullett, Russell Mullett, Benedict Keaney, Benedict Keaney, Catriona Graham, Catriona Graham, Jeremy Ash, Jeremy Ash, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Matthew C. McDowell, Matthew C. McDowell, Fiona Petchey, Fiona Petchey, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Ashleigh J. Rogers, David M. Kennedy, David M. Kennedy   +26 more
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Reconstructing the past networks of birch tar: archaeobotany and archaeomaterials.

, 2014
International audienceReconstructing the past networks of birch tar: archaeobotany and ...
Henry, Auréade, Davtian, Gourguen, Delhon, Claire, Regert, Martine, Pasqualini, Antoine, Jouvenez, Arnaud, Rageot, Maxime   +6 more
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Archaeobotanical Methodology: Results of an Archaeobotany Questionnaire

, 2011
In preparation for a 2010 Society for American Archaeology Forum organized by Christine Hastorf, “Quantification and Presentation: Effective Means of Presenting Plant Evidence in Archaeology,” I devised a questionnaire about archaeobotany methodology. In
Miller, Naomi F
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Horticultural Systems and Species Diversity of Roses in Classical Antiquity: Integrating Archaeological, Iconographic, and Literary Evidence from Ancient Greece and Rome

Horticulturae
Roses held profound cultural and economic significance in ancient Greece and Rome, yet comprehensive documentation of their species diversity, cultivation practices, and horticultural innovations remains fragmented across archaeological, iconographic ...
Diego Rivera, Julio Navarro, Inmaculada Camarero, Javier Valera, Diego-José Rivera-Obón, Concepción Obón   +5 more
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The Dataset for Tracing Invisible Hearths and Daily Routines through Carbonized Plant Remains and Geochemical Signals in an Early Iron Age Smithy at Pungrt Hillfort, Slovenia

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The dataset presented in this paper comprises results from archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological analyses. It was compiled primarily to reconstruct the location of the archaeologically invisible forge hearth within a late 6th- and early 5th-century BC ...
Luka Gruškovnjak, Tjaša Tolar, Agni Prijatelj, Barbara Šetina Batič, Petra Vojaković, Helena Grčman, Matija Črešnar   +6 more
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Mapping Global Agricultural History: A Map and Gazetteer for Sub-Saharan Africa, c. 1800 AD

, 2018
Recent global historical cropland modelling grossly underestimates the pre-colonial development of agriculture in the Americas and many parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Mats Widgren, Widgren, Mats,
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