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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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First identification of plant remains in earthen architecture of Argentina: constructive and domestic archaeological data from early colonial contexts (16th and 17th centuries)
This paper analyses, from an archaeological and ethnobotanical perspective, the botanical remains recovered from earthen architecture of Ibatín and...
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Aquatic invertebrate mandibles and sclerotized remains in Quaternary lake sediments
Subfossil remains of aquatic invertebrates found in lacustrine sediments are useful paleoenvironmental indicators. Strongly scleroticized chitinous...
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Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia)
Archaeobotanical investigations at the Roman town of Aelia Mursa, located near the Danube frontier in modern day Croatia, have revealed an...
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Palaeoethnobotanical analysis of plant remains discovered in the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis, Nanchang, China
Analysis of plant remains of 73 taxa obtained from the graveyard of the Haihun Marquis (circa 59 bc ) at Nanchang, China, is presented. Chronology was...
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Feeding prehistoric coastal community: A study of marine faunal remains at the **gtoushan site
This article examines the abundant marine mollusc, and fish remains at the **gtoushan shell midden (8,300 to 7,800 cal a BP) in Zhejiang Province,...
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New Fossil Plant from the Late Devonian Strata of Northern Timan (Russia)
AbstractRemains of a new fossil plant Petrosjania salarina gen. et sp. nov. were found in the Upper Devonian deposits of the Northern Timan (eastern...
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Predynastic and Early Dynastic plant economy in the Nile Delta: archaeobotanical evidence from Tell el-Iswid
Thelarge-scale excavation at the prehistoric site of Tell el-Iswid made it possible to undertake a systematic archaeobotanical study of different...
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Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity
Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger...
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New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study
Archaeobotanical remains contribute crucial evidence for shifts in human economy from foraging to farming, understanding early village life and the...
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Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption: a case study of pottery food crusts from a Late Iron Age settlement at Pada, northeast Estonia
The inclusion of starchy plants as a staple in prehistoric diets reveals the intricacies of local economies, evolution of crop cultivation and...
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Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity
Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, and research has shown that plant diversity can help mitigate the impacts of climate change by...
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From bodies in hammock bundles to commingled burnt remains: an archaeothanatological case study of a two-stage burial cycle at Toca do Alto da Serra do Capim (Middle-Late Holocene, Northeastern Brazil)
Two contrasting deposits of human remains, a semi-articulated skeleton in a plant funerary container and numerous burnt commingled human remains,...
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Interdisciplinary analyses of the remains from three gallery graves at Kinnekulle: tracing Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age societies in inland Southwestern Sweden
In this paper, we investigate the Scandinavian Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Kinnekulle in southwestern Sweden. The above-mentioned periods...
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Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa
Palaeoethnobotanical studies completed at the archaeological site of Mezber in Tigrai, Ethiopia, have led to important new insights on plant...
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Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence
The Epipalaeolithic Natufian Culture (latest Pleistocene Levant, ca. 15,000–11,500 cal bp ) represents relatively sedentary and complex foraging...
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Biostimulants in the Soil–Plant Interface: Agro-environmental Implications—A Review
Soil degradation is a global environmental problem that puts at risk food security. Improving soil health is, therefore, a major challenge for...
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Quantification of Approaching Wind Uncertainty in Flow over Realistic Plant Canopies
Numerical simulations and in-situ measurements represent two important and synergistic pillars for the study of flow and transport in plant canopies....
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Modelling velocity distribution for vegetated flows using Entropy theory considering stiffness variation along plant length
Aquatic plants in rivers modify the flow structure by exerting resistance to the flow, which impacts the flood mitigation and river management. The...
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Food production and agricultural systems on the southwestern frontier of the Han Empire: archaeobotanical remains from the 2016 excavation of Hebosuo, Yunnan
Dian Basin in Yunnan province is an important center for both early agricultural production and centralized state formation. Settled agricultural...
