ABSTRACT

At the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in August to September 2017 in Maastricht, NL, two sessions explored how archaeobotanical analysis can be used to explore plant use beyond arable agriculture. Session 203 (The Archaeobotany of Non-Food Plant Exploitation) focused on the non-food uses of plants, while Session 346 (Within the Woodlands: Exploitation of Wild Plants during the Medieval and Post-Medieval Period) explored the various uses of wild plants. A key aim of both sessions was to encourage archaeologists to consider the many varied uses of plant materials in the past, including food, fuel, construction materials, textiles, cordage, pigments, medicine and ritual, and to consider also that many of these materials will be collected from the wider landscape rather than cultivated. Many of these themes have been taken forward by ARCHWILD, an EAA Community with a focus on research on wild plant resources founded by the organisers of these sessions, amongst others. This editorial introduces a special issue comprising papers stemming from these sessions, which together provide an exploration of the ‘state-of-the-art’ in the investigation of wild and non-food plant exploitation.

摘要

在2017年8月至2017年9月于荷兰马斯特里赫特举行的欧洲考古学家协会（EAA）第23届年会上，两场会议探讨了如何利用考古植物学分析来探索可耕作农业以外的植物用途。第203节（非食用植物开发的考古植物学）关注植物的非食用用途，而第346节（林地内：中世纪和后中世纪时期对野生植物的开发）探讨了野生植物的各种用途。这两届会议的主要目的是鼓励考古学家考虑过去植物材料的多种用途，包括食品，燃料，建筑材料，纺织品，绳索，色素，药物和仪式，并考虑其中的许多材料。将从更广阔的景观中收集，而不是从耕地中收集。这些主题中的许多主题已经由EAWI社区ARCHWILD提出，其重点是由这些会议的组织者创立的野生植物资源研究。这篇社论介绍了一个特刊，其中包括这些会议的论文，共同探讨了野生和非食用植物开发研究中的“最新技术”。