Search results for "Archaeobotany"
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Ressources et économie agricole en France à l’âge du Bronze et au premier âge du Fer: les données carpologiques
2017
International audience; Les graines et les fruits conservés en contexte archéologique constituent un moyen direct de percevoir les ressources végétales des sociétés passées, les pratiques que celles-ci mettaient en oeuvre pour les exploiter, et donc plus particulièrement l’économie agricole. Aborder ces questions sur de grandes échelles d’espace ou de temps demande de compiler les données provenant de nombreux sites archéologiques. L’enquête nationale conduite sur « L’habitat et l’occupation des sols à l’âge du Bronze et au début de l’âge du Fer » a procuré l’occasion et les moyens de réunir la communauté des archéobotanistes (carpologues) à l’échelle nationale afin de mettre en commun nos …
Une occupation du Bronze final et sa nécropole à Metz – ZAC du Sansonnet (Moselle). Un cas particulier de stabilisation d’un habitat.
2020
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Archaeobotanical analysis from the long-term rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo): preliminary data
2019
The project ¿Harvesting Memories: Ecology and Archaeology of Monti Sicani landscapes¿ aims to analyse the long-term relationship of landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in a Mediterranean inland of Central-Western Sicily. The project combined different interdisciplinary approaches of vegetation science, landscape ecology, history and archaeology in order to diachronically understand and reconstruct the human- society-environment interactions. From 2017 to 2019 a new rural settlement has been investigated in Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). The excavation in Contrada Castro showed a clear case of long-term occupation of an hill-top site during Late Archaic/Classical age (6 th -5 th…
I livelli neolitici della Grotta San Michele di Saracena (CS)
2021
The cave of San Michele lies on the right side of the narrow Garga valley, facing the modern settlement of Saracena (Cosenza) at an altitude of 750 m.a.s.l. Research conducted from 1998 to 2009 revealed an uninterrupted stratigraphic sequence from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Studies of material from the Neolithic levels and the availability of radiocarbon dating allow for a reconstruction of the history of the Calabrian Sibaritide-Pollino populations in this period, highlighting the area as a meeting point of different cultural influences coming from south-east and south-west of Southern Italy.
Fruits arriving to the west. Introduction of cultivated fruits in the Iberian Peninsula
2021
Agricultural activities, including practices, crops and techniques have evolved throughout history undergoing tremendous changes. From the early Neolithic farmers in the Mediterranean focused on cereal agriculture and only later, during the 4th/3rd millennium cal. BC in the Eastern basin, other species such as fruit trees were introduced into the agrarian system transforming the model that had been in use for millennia. Fruit tree management required innovation and investment and more importantly multi-year foresight as the new crops entailed a new pace of work with delayed returns and, thus, a greater entanglement with the land. Processes of social complexity and urbanization accompanied t…
The dry stone wall of 'Paretone dei Greci': an anthracological approach
2011
International audience; Dry stone constructions are a common occurrence in many Mediterranean landscapes. One of these structures known as "Paretone dei Greci" (Taranto, Southern Italy), was subject to an archaeological investigation. Soil and sediment material within this wall, as well as those above and below it, were sampled and processed for archaeobotanical studies. In this manner it was possible to understand its building technique as well as giving it a chronological context. Through an anthracological analysis it was possible to insert the "Paretone" within the surrounding agricultural landscape, thus better highlighting its function in relation to the history of the territory
Un établissement rural à vocation agropastorale des IXe – XIIe siècles à Hatrize en Meurthe-et-Moselle
2017
Hatrize ist ein Dorf, das im Norden des Departments Meurthe-et-Moselle im Tal der Orne liegt, eines linksseitigen Zuflusses zur Mosel. Ausgelöst durch ein geplantes Neubaugebiet wurde im Bereich der Flurbezeichnung « Poirier le Loup » im Jahr 2009 vom Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap) auf einer Fläche von 3140 m2 eine Rettungsgrabung durchgeführt. Die Grabungsfläche liegt etwa 150 m von der Pfarrkirche entfernt am nördlichen Ortsrand.Die Grabung hat es gestattet, Siedlungsbefunde freizulegen, die zwei größeren chronologischen Perioden angehören. Die erste, nur durch einige Befunde belegte Siedlungsphase, kann in die Merowingerzeit datiert werden (Ende 5. und…
Microscopic findings and soil genetic “indicators” in support of pedoarchaeological studies
2015
Archaeologists use historical artefacts and archaeological records to reconstruct the communities that produced them and the environment in which they lived. Soil protects our buried or damaged heritage of archaeological and historic remains from depletion, damage, and any disturbance. Here are presented some preliminary results obtained in the framework of the FP7 Project "MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes: an historical approach to cultural Heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA)" where ancient soils horizons are themselves archaeological records. In order to implement the MEMOLA archaeological study and to identify soil genetic "indicators", two integrated approaches were us…
The Harvesting Memories Project: Historical ecology and landscape changes of the Sicani Mountains in Sicily
2022
The Harvesting Memories project aims to investigate the historical landscape dynamics in an inner area of the Sicani Mountains district in Western Sicily (Contrada Castro, Corleone-Palermo). The interdisciplinary approach of the project allowed us to combine and integrate methods from different disciplines such as historical ecology, landscape archaeology, archaeobotany and GIS-based spatial analysis. In this paper some results have been summarized. The comparison between land mosaic change during the last 60 years, the relationship between site catchment area and land suitability and the correlation between archaeobotanical and phytosociological data. This approach underlined the relevance…
Zur Geschichte der nacheiszeitlichen Umwelt und der Kulturpflanzen im Land Brandenburg
2018
International audience; The results of pollenanalytical and archaeobotanical studies presented here show the development of veg-etation in the state of Brandenburg, which was characterized by the climate and the associated natural spread of plants as well as the use of the resource forest by man.The plant food of humans was first obtained by gathering and, since the beginning of permanent settle-ment in the Neolithic period, mainly by means of agriculture. The cultivation of plants continued over the millennia, with most archaeological cultures showing their typical inventory of crops. The dynamics of these developments require further research, as there are still many spatial and temporal …