Past plant food consumption has been studied diachronically and spatially for many Dutch settlements. However, research into the plant food consumption of Early Modern Dutch inhabitants of urban settlements is somewhat underrepresented in the scientific archaeobotanical literature. To fill this knowledge gap, archaeobotanical data from cesspits dating to the period ad 1500–1850 contained in the Dutch Relational Archaeobotanical Database were analysed. First, edible plant taxa were distinguished from medicinal plants and potentially edible weeds. Then, seeds and fruits were distinguished from pollen. Finally, the remains were quantified to form an overview of the plant taxa consumed per urban settlement and, from there, to provide insight into regional and temporal changes in plant food availability and preferences. The combined archaeobotanical dataset, consisting of cesspit material from 51 cities, comprised 97 edible plant taxa. Surprisingly, 20 of these taxa are consistently present in 50–100% of all settlements in the 350 years under study. Based on the archaeobotanical finds from the cesspits, we conclude that the overall plant food consumption of Early Modern Dutch urban inhabitants does not seem to have changed very much over time.

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共同点和稀有点：基于古植物学的城市污水处理池数据回顾的近代荷兰早期植物食品消费

对荷兰许多定居点的过去植物食物消费进行了历时和空间研究。但是，对早期荷兰现代城市居民的植物性食物消费的研究在科学的考古植物学文献中却很少被提及。为了填补这一知识空白，从污水坑到时代广告的古植物数据对荷兰关系考古植物数据库中包含的1500–1850年进行了分析。首先，食用植物类群不同于药用植物和潜在的食用杂草。然后，将种子和果实与花粉区分开。最后，对残留物进行量化，以形成每个城市居民点消耗的植物分类单元的概述，并从那里深入了解植物食物供应和偏好的区域和时间变化。组合的古植物学数据集由来自51个城市的粪便组成，其中包括97种可食用植物类群。令人惊讶的是，在研究的350年中，其中20个分类单元始终存在于所有定居点的50-100％中。根据出入处的考古植物学发现，