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AUTHOR
Yolanda Carrión-marco
Mangos y maderas en el mundo ibérico
Uso de la madera, artesanía y comercio de la misma. Wood use, crafts and ancient wood trade.
Disentangling human from natural factors: Taphonomical value of microanatomical features on archaeological wood and charcoal assemblages
International audience; Archaeobotanical charcoal and wood analyses rely on the observation of different macro and microanatomical features affecting wood structure to variable extents. These features may result from a wide range of intrinsic and extrinsic factors alluding to different stages of the wood's taphonomical history: initial growth conditions, human selection, transformation/use and discard, post-depositional processes and archaeological sampling strategies. Papers in this volume address taphonomy in this broad sense, through recent methodological work mainly based on experimentation and case studies from a variety of chrono-cultural and geographical contexts. The authors present…