Agriculture is a vital component of social practice, yet it is often overlooked as a key aspect in the social organisation of the communities resident at urban settlements. This paper uses the example of late Iron Age oppida, a type of settlement at the intersection of the Iron Age and Roman worlds where research has focussed upon elites rather than community. Drawing upon studies of human–plant relationships, particularly that of ecological temporalities, this paper shows that considering the capacity of plants to affect people through ‘planty agency’ renders annual rhythms of human–plant relationships perceptible. The utilisation of archaeobotanical data in this novel way provides new insights into social practices and the formation of communities at late Iron Age oppida.

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铁器时代晚期的农业实践，生态暂时性和城市社区

农业是社会实践的重要组成部分，但它经常被忽视，因为它是居住在城市居民区的社区的社会组织中的一个关键方面。本文以晚期铁器时代的鸦片为例，这是在铁器时代和罗马世界交汇处的一种定居点，研究重点是精英而不是社区。借助对人与植物之间关系的研究，特别是对生态暂时性的研究，本文表明，考虑植物通过“植物代理”影响人们的能力，可以使人与植物之间的关系的年度节奏变得可感知。以这种新颖的方式利用考古植物学数据为铁器时代晚期的社会实践和社区形成提供了新见解。