Britain (Geographic Keyword)
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The conventional view of the lron Age is that it was a subsistence society, eking out a basic existence until the arrival of civilising Romans. As Dr Peter Reynolds of the Butser Ancient Farm reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. Britain was the bread basket of Western Europe and a major supplier of grain to the Roman Empire.
Crop yields of the Prehistoric cereal types Emmer and Spelt: The Worst Option (1992)
The article describes the empirical experiment in agriculture at the Butser Ancient Farm Project at the location of Little Butser, where crop fields were sown, observed, and analysed. Emmer, spelt, but also bean were sown. The project came across several issues, such as bad soil structure, weather interruptions, and questions of tools. The soil made it difficult to judge whether the crops will grow, as well as how the outcome will be. The weather majorly influenced the crop, grow and the...
From Reuse of Space to Claim for Permanence in British Burial Grounds: the Long-term Landscape Implications of Permanent Commemoration. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period, graves were rarely marked with a permanent stone monument and as descendants themselves died and memory of earlier generations and their burial locations were forgotten, plots could be reused. A combination of...
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany (2014)
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past...