Search results for "anthracology"
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Fungi in archaeological areas
2018
This review include the data concerning the presence of representations of fungi since prehistoric times. Particular attention is paid to their use in magical rituals, in nutrition and as a remedy for certain diseases. The work also examines some examples of megaliths whose shape recalls that of a mushroom, and the role of mushrooms in anthracological studies. Finally, data on the presence of mushrooms, some of them rare, of reforested areas and residual dune systems within the Archaeological Park of Selinunte are reported.
Neolithic Human Societies and Woodlands in the North-Western Mediterranean Region: Wood and Charcoal Analysis
2017
An overview of woodland history in the north-western Mediterranean region, based on charcoal analysis (Anthracology) from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites, is proposed for the Mediterranean areas of France, Spain and Portugal. The taxonomic identification of charcoal fragments and the diachronic variations of taxa frequencies provide, for each settlement, an accurate image of the local vegetal cover. During the end of the last glaciation, beginning of the Holocene, vegetation dynamics reflects the evolution of climatic and geographic conditions. Any potential ecological impact by hunter-fisher-gatherer communities (Mesolithic) remains invisible; the same comment applies to the farming-herding…
Uses of wood and tree management in the Bronze Age Aegean (Greece). The cases of Akrotiri on Thera and Heraion on Samos
2019
1. Marco arqueológico.La Edad de Bronce en el Egeo se caracteriza tanto por el crecimiento y la especialización de la producción agrícola y el aumento del excedente como por la intensificación de los contactos comerciales e intercambios de productos. Ello condujo a una gradual estratificación de la sociedad y al surgimiento de élites sociales. Sin embargo, aquella gradación no se produjo de manera simultánea en todo ese ámbito. En el Egeo, en su sentido más amplio, aquel períodose caracterizó por la presencia de diferentes grupos sociopolíticos con identidades culturales propias. Principalmente, esa división quedó dictaminada por la geografía ya que el mar separa la Grecia continental de la…
Mid-Holocene forests from Eastern Hungary: New anthracological data
2013
Charcoal remains found in five archaeological sites provided an important source of information about the woody vegetation that developed during the Atlantic period in eastern Hungary. The results are presented jointly since all sites are located in very similar habitats, they reflect Neolithic cultures and present comparable floral compositions. The reconstruction of past forest communities from the Great Hungarian Plain in the Atlantic period is based on pollen analysis and new anthracological data offer significant complementary information to the established pollen sequences. These data were obtained from more than 5000 charcoal fragments in which 28 taxa were identified. The main contr…
An anthracological approach to understanding Late Classic period cultural collapse in Mesoamerica’s northwestern frontier
2012
International audience; For over 50 years, researchers have suggested that increased regional rainfall over the highland deserts of Mesoamerica's northwestern frontier zone during the Classic period (AD 200-900) allowed for the colonization of the zone by farming groups who originated from Central and/or West Mexico. A severe and prolonged drought is hypothesized to have later provoked the abandonment of the region by these sedentary populations by AD 900. However, very little research has been carried out in the zone to detect evidence of this proposed climate change. I present results from the first systematic study of wood charcoal from the northwestern frontier, comparing the data from …