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The first comprehensive macroremains analysis of edible plants from Vichama, Peru (1800–1500 bce)
This study reports the first exhaustive archaeobotanical research of edible plants from public buildings at the Vichama settlement (1800–1500 bce ),...
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Wood charcoal macroremains from the Heraion on Samos: firewood and tree management during the Early-Middle Bronze and Roman periods
This research presents the anthracological results from the recently excavated sectors to the north of the Sacred Road of the Heraion Sanctuary on...
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How animal dung can help to reconstruct past forest use: a late Neolithic case study from the Mooswinkel pile dwelling (Austria)
Animal dung analyses are a useful tool for vegetational studies. Preserved ruminant dung from archaeological layers offers a unique possibility for...
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New crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy
In order to identify new crops in the 1st millennium ce in northern Italy, a complex and diversified territory, archaeobotanical macroremains from...
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Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages
This paper presents a summary of the record of the cultivated plant macroremains from southern Italy during the early Middle Ages, with a focus on...
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Archaeobotanical evidence and ethnobotanical interpretation of plants used as coffin pillow fillings in burials in Poland (17th-18/19th centuries)
The aim of this article is the study of the botanical material in the fillings of 54 coffin pillows from Catholic and Protestant burials dated to the...
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Botanical composition of meadows and pastures and their role in the functioning of early medieval semi-artificial lake islands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land), western Poland
Continuation of archaeobotanical and palaeoecological research on three semi-artificial lake islands, Nowy Dworek, Chycina and Lubniewice, has...
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An Overview of Upper Gondwana Rajmahal Flora and Its Significance
The flora of the Rajmahal Formation is typically known as ‘Rajmahal Flora’. It is Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian) in age and is one of the...
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The persistent place at Lubrza: a small paradise for hunter-gatherers? Multi-disciplinary studies of Late Palaeolithic environment and human activity in the Łagów lake district (western Poland)
This paper summarises the results of multidisciplinary research, including pollen, plant macroremains, diatoms, Cladocera, molluscs and geochemistry...
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Food and farming beyond the Alpine lake zone: the archaeobotany of the Copper Age settlements of Lenzing-Burgstall and Ansfelden-Burgwiese in Upper Austria, and an early occurrence of Triticum spelta (spelt)
An international research project (FWF I-1693) recently finished investigating archaeological sites in the hinterland of the lake pile dwelling sites...
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Pre-Hispanic use of edible Geoffroea decorticans fruits in central Argentina - first approximations based on an integrated morphoanatomical and archaeobotanical approach
The edible drupe of Geoffroea decorticans (Fabaceae) has been used in South America since ancient times. However, and despite its great current...
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On the Timing of the Epoch of Abundant River Flow in the Volga Basin
AbstractLarge paleochannels with sizes far greater than the modern ones are widespread on the floodplains and low terraces of rivers in the Volga...
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Iron Age plant subsistence in the Inner Congo Basin (DR Congo)
Around 400 bc , pottery- and iron-producing populations immigrated into the Inner Congo Basin (ICB) and subsequently spread upstream some major...
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Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)
The Canary Islands were settled ca. 1,800 years ago by Amazigh/Berber farming populations originating in North Africa. This historical event...
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Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant
The paper discusses a multi-proxy archaeobotanical dataset from the published macrobotanical and microbotanical research of 19 Epipalaeolithic sites...
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Vegetation changes in the Grote Nete valley (Campine region, Belgium) during the Boreal: a response to the 9.3 ka event?
Environmental changes have had an enormous impact on prehistoric hunter-gatherers as they affect the biotic landscape and availability of resources...
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Morphometric distinction between Acute bulbosus phytoliths (silicified epidermal hair cells) from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves
The taxonomic differentiation of Panicum miliaceu (broomcorn millet) and Setaria italica (foxtail millet) is of high relevance for archaeology and...
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Plant remains preserved in products of metal corrosion: source of evidence on ancient plant materials and environment from burial contexts
By-products of metal corrosion, when coming into contact with organic matter, have the capacity to preserve it from decay. A pilot study was...
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Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan
This paper presents the first archaeobotanical results on plant macroremains other than charcoal from the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site of...
