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Paleoecology and dynamics of forest ecosystems in Central Evenkia during the past 2400 years
New data on the composition of surface assemblages of plant macroremains from soil and swamp samples have been obtained in the study of...
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Burnt sacrificial plant offerings in Hellenistic times: an archaeobotanical case study from Messene, Peloponnese, Greece
Messene, situated on the southwest Peloponnese, Greece, was founded in 369 B.C . by Epaminondas, after the liberation of Messenia from Spartan rule....
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Holocene Lake Level Fluctuations Recorded in the Sediment Compositionof Lake Juusa, Southeastern Estonia
The main aim of this study was to reconstruct the history of water level fluctuations of a small dimictic lake during the Holocene based on the...
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A new find of macrofossils of feather grass (Stipa) in an Early Bronze Age storage pit at Vliněves, Czech Republic: local implications and possible interpretation in a Central European context
The abundance of Stipa remains in material dated to the Middle Neolithic (ca. 4400–4000 b.c. ) from Kujawy (central Poland) and their presence in a...
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The spread of agriculture in northern Iberia: new archaeobotanical data from El Mirón cave (Cantabria) and the open-air site of Los Cascajos (Navarra)
This paper presents archaeobotanical results from the Neolithic levels (5,300–4,000 b.c. ) of two recently excavated sites in northern Iberia: El...
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The Late Upper Palaeolithic Occupation of the Moroccan Northwest Maghreb During the Last Glacial Maximum
New work at Kehf el Hammar Cave provides the first well-dated palaeoenvironmental sequence for the Late Upper Palaeolithic in this region of the...
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The spread of Abies throughout Europe since the last glacial period: combined macrofossil and pollen data
In this paper we reconstruct the location of the last glacial refugia and postglacial spread of Abies throughout Europe based on combined pollen and...
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Early Neolithic Agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula
The spread of agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula is documented from at least ca. 5600–5500 BC , although botanical data are absent or very limited...
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Taphonomic features of Arctic pollen
The composition of the primary pollen changes during pollen transfer and redistribution over the Earth’s surface and fossilization. These processes...
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Domestication of plants in Maya Lowlands
The Lowland Mayan culture has been one of the most successful in Mesoamerica. Being an agricultural society, part of their success was based on plant...
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Spatial patterns of past wood exploitation, natural wood supply and growth conditions: indications of natural tree species distribution by anthracological studies of charcoal-burning remains
In close-to-nature silviculture one strives to derive the advantages of the natural adaptations of tree species to different growth conditions....
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The cultivation of Castanea sativa (Mill.) in Europe, from its origin to its diffusion on a continental scale
The history of Castanea sativa (sweet chestnut) cultivation since medieval times has been well described on the basis of the very rich documentation...
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Quaternary refugia of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): an extended palynological approach
Knowledge about the glacial refugia of the thermophilous European Castanea sativa Mill. (sweet chestnut) is still inadequate. Its original range of...
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A Holocene record of Neotropical savanna dynamics from El Salvador
The historical ecology of the Ahuachapan savanna is reconstructed from a 4.83-m sediment core from Laguna Llano del Espino, Ahuachapan, western El...
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Pollen and Plant Macroremain Analyses for the Reconstruction of Environmental Changes in the Early Metal Period
A sharp increase in human population density and the same time fundamental changes in the location of settlement, moving away from earlier inhabited...
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Identifying endocarp remains and exploring their use at Epipalaeolithic Öküzini in southwest Anatolia, Turkey
Excavation of the Epipalaeolithic levels of the cave site Öküzini in southwest Anatolia produced many “nutshell” remains, mainly endocarp fragments...
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Plant tempering of Predynastic pisé at Adaïma in Upper Egypt: building material and taphonomy
Macroscopic plant remains found in pisé material (clay or mud used in building), used as lining in pits at the Upper Egyptian Predynastic site of...
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Vegetation of the Lago de Sanabria area (NW Iberia) since the end of the Pleistocene: a palaeoecological reconstruction on the basis of two new pollen sequences
Various pollen sequences from lacustrine deposits close to Lago de Sanabria (NW Iberia) have for several decades been a key source of information for...
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Palaeoenvironmental changes in the arid and sub arid belt (Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula) from 150 kyr to present
The PEP III Arid to Subarid Belt includes the largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara- Arabian desert and the Sahel zone. The region of interest...
