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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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Mind the Gap: Maize Phytoliths, Macroremains, and Processing Strategies in Southern New England 2500–500 BP
Mind the Gap: Maize Phytoliths, Macroremains, and Processing Strategies in Southern New England 2500–500 BP. This study presents preliminary results...
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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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BRAIN - Holocene archaeo-data for assessing plant-cultural diversity in Italy and other Mediterranean regions
In the field of botany applied to archaeological and palaeoecological studies, the multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of this research produces a...
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Extensive archaeobotanical data estimate carrying capacity, duration, and land use of the Late Bronze Age settlement site Březnice (Czech Republic)
The reconstruction of the settlement´s hinterland and acquisition of plant resources is one of the crucial questions in the field of environmental...
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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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First insights into the age of the giant ice deposits in the Eisriesenwelt cave (Austria)
Frozen water is the most widespread type of ice present in ice caves and forms ice stalagmites and stalactites as well as floor ice, which is often...
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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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Dynamics of the Vegetation of Central Yamal in the Holocene
AbstractThe paper presents new paleobotanical data in combination with the results of radiocarbon dating obtained from organomineral deposits of the...
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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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New Isotopic Analysis of the Los Tres Cerros 1 and Cerro de las Pajas Blancas 1 Archaeological Sites (Paraná River Delta, Argentina)
In the last 15 years, our scientific team has characterized the pre-Hispanic subsistence in the Upper Delta of the Paraná River (Argentina) by...
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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...
