Butser Ancient Farm (Geographic Keyword)
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This article reports on agricultural experiments on the Butser Ancient Farm, testing emmer and spelt. The article introduces Butser Ancient Farm, including the four locations, which are in four different climatic zones. Some of these agricultural lands seem inhospitable. The soil is described in detail in order to understand agricultural changes and how tools affected the soil. Another debate in the articles focuses on the treatment of weeds. Two constant factors were maintained throughout...
The Fragmentation of Pottery in the Ploughsoil (1987)
Field walking has been traditional activity in Britain since the turn of the century. Given the large numbers of amateur archaeological societies spread countrywide, aside from the annual summer excavation, the major activity of these societies usually in the winter has been to walk areas within their regions fairly regularly if not systematically. It is normal, for example, to have special areas where sites are known and rewards will be commensurately high. Such sites therefore become...
L'agriculture de l'age du fer (1982)
The Agriculture of the Iron Age Experimental archaeology endeavors to improve the techniques of excavation and analysis by trying to find the conditions in which archaeological structures have been formed. Rather than simulating the lives of men at the Iron Age, Peter Reynolds' team preferred to develop an experimental farm to take into account and study all the farm activities of that period. The temporal dimension of this project makes it possible to study the evolution of a plant or animal...
Sherd movement in the ploughzone - physical data base into computer simulation (1989)
During the last decade a major research program has been carried out at the Butser Ancient Farm to explore the annual movement of simulated potsherds in the plough soil under a continuous arable regime (Reynolds 1986).The reasons for this program lie in the fundamental question of whether the topsoil overlaying an archaeological site should be regarded as worthy of excavation in that the artefacts it may contain still bear a relationship to underlying features and therefore will have some...
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1980)
First Bohunt Lecture, given at Bohunt School 23rd April, 1980.
Zur Herkunft verkohltes Getreidekörner in urgeschichtlich Siedlungen: eine alternative Erklärung (1993)
"On the origin of carbonised cereal grain in prehistoric settlements: an alternative interpretation" This is an English translation of a German article focusing on prehistoric carbonized cereal grain. ln the analysis of samples of carbonized seeds from prehistoric sites, the regular presumption is that these are the productof cereal or food processing. This paper presents the results of an extended series of trials which explore an alternative source of this type of evidence.