Archaeobotany
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Poster presented on the symposium Diet in the Past - Food for Discussion from 31-03-2016 till 01-04-2016. The presentation is about the different roles of wild plants in the Iron Age diet in North-Western Europe.
SUMMARY: Chapter 7, in Renfrew & Bahn's textbook (Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice), covers how to assess past subsistence and diet, including plant food (e.g., macro- and microbotanical remains; plant residues; seasonality;... more
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Analysis of two macroremains samples dating to the Iron Age/Roman period and wood remains (n=6) from the construction of a medieval well from a terp in the Netherlands. The wood working traces are discussed briefly. Botanical... more
In the Jebala region, NW of Morocco, the making of recipients of dung from cows or/and clay (tonna and tabtoba) was common in the past. These recipients were used for stocking cereals and their dry products, for feeding the livestock, or... more
Sylabus přednášky pro studenty botanických, ekologických a dalších přírodovědných oborů. Aktualizace v roce 2015. Kurz běží už od roku 1995 na Biologické, dnes Přírodovědecké fakultě Jihočeské univerzity.
Poster at the Environmental Archaeologies of Neolithisation, Autumn Conference 2012
Communication routes are an important subject in the study of the human past. They allowed interactions between communities and the dispersal of goods and ideas. Their study, therefore, can shed light on the way in which communities... more
Excavations at the Main Square (Grote Markt) of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium) have unearthed the building remains of a tower, arguably identifiable as the former town prison: Het Steen. When this assumption is followed, the contents of the... more
This paper discusses archaeobotanical remains of naked barley recovered from the Okhotsk cultural layers of the Hamanaka 2 archaeological site on Rebun Island, northern Japan. Calibrated ages (68% confidence interval) of the directly... more
Pollen analysis has long been used as a tool to make an assessment of regional vegetation. On-site pollen samples are taken for the same purpose at some excavations, because they are often the only available contexts with good... more
Kniha Počátky zemědělství ve Starém světě nabízí globální pohled na jeden z nevýznamnějších fenoménů vývoje lidstva. Nejstarší prvky zemědělství byly přítomny u lovců a sběračů, jimž je věnována značná pozornost. Na základě soudobých... more
Background Vegetatively propagated crops are globally significant in terms of current agricultural production, as well as for understanding the long-term history of early agriculture and plant domestication. Today, significant field crops... more
The paper presents preliminary results of archaeobotanical studies carried out at the Madīnat Ilbīra site in Spain. The functioning of the town, which was the capital of one of the administrative districts (kūras) of alAndalus, falls in... more
Kurzer Überblick zu Forschungsgeschichte und archäologisch dokumentierten Bauphasen auf dem Veitsberg. Vorstellung der wichtigsten Fundgruppen.
Già nei suoi anni giovanili Ovidio aveva molto viaggiato: Grecia, Egitto, Asia e Sicilia, luoghi nei quali certamente aveva avuto occasione di conoscere direttamente, o quantomeno osservare, le popolazioni locali, più o meno romanizzate,... more
We did this project as part of a survey for a Timber Salvage Project in Sequoia National Forest. Citation: 1991 Archaeobotanical Remains from 05-13-52-88 (CA-TUL-569). In Cultural Resources Inventory of the Proposed Divide Salvage Area,... more
Employing Mauss's notion of the fourth obligation, giving to the gods, this article develops a formulation of ritual exchange to examine the interactive nature of ritual practice. As a modality of interaction, ritual exchange is... more
The aim of this study is to present the anthracological results from three archaeological sites located in the North, North West and South East of Sri Lanka. The study is based on the observation and analysis of 1689 charcoal fragments... more