archaeobotany (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Privies were a necessary part of daily life for the inhabitants of nineteenth century Philadelphia. Home to everything from human excrement to trash, the contents within privies unveil the history of the people who lived there. Archaeobotanical assemblages discovered in privy samples...
What plants existed in the Lesser Antilles just prior to 1492 and could they have been exploited by the island inhabitants? - new data from archaeological excavations at Anse Trabaud, Martinique (2016)
The exploitation of plants in the tropical belt by Europeans had a major influence on the distributions of many species. The Lesser Antillean islands received their fair share of new arrivals. But what plant species inhabited the Lesser Antillean islands just prior to 1492? Establishing which plant species occurred immediately before colonial times would increase our understanding of the impact of alien introductions, provide information about biogeographical range changes, and, in addition,...
Wheat and Cotton Macrobotanical Remains from Ile Ife, Nigeria (2024)
Cotton and wheat finds from Ile-Ife, Nigeria, including measurements. Reported in Logan et al., "Early Archaeological Evidence of Wheat and Cotton in Medieval Ile-Ife, Nigeria." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Where are the lives? Characterising settlements from small artefactual debris (2015)
This paper is inspired by consideration of how charred plant macrofossil assemblages relate to past human lives, as one component of the small artefactual debris on settlements. Cultural decisions regarding activity location, rhythm and ‘waste’ deposition mean there can be wide variation in the archaeological remains of an otherwise identical plant processing activity; this issue is common in archaeology as many classes of material, including plant assemblages, are understood with models from...
The wild side of Cyprus: an integration of archaeobotany and zooarchaeology (2016)
Recent research from both the island and the mainland Near East have changed what we know of the timing and dynamics of the spread of agriculture to Cyprus. The timing of the arrival of the initial explorers and colonists by late Pre-Pottery Neolithic A cultures of the mainland Levant, and the dynamics of cultural developments in subsequent cultural phases is providing further support for the unique Cypriot prehistoric culture. One aspect that has long characterised Cyprus in prehistory is the...