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Dating and Characterising the Transformation of a Monastic Landscape. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Agrarian Spaces of Samos Abbey (NW Spain) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo, Noemí Silva-Sánchez, Timothy Kinnaird, Sam Turner, Filippo Brandolini, Francesco Carrer, Aayush Srivastava, Estefanía López-Salas, Carlos Otero-Vilariño
This paper explores the potential of a multidisciplinary approach to understand landscape evolution over the last 1200 years around an important monastic centre, Samos Abbey, in northwest Iberia. O...
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Meat Supply of Alakul Miners at the Bronze Age Vorovskaya Yama Copper Mine (Southern Trans-Urals) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Polina S. Ankusheva, Alexey Yu. Rassadnikov, Maksim N. Ankushev, Olga P. Bachura, Igor V. Chechushkov, Daria V. Kiseleva, Elya P. Zazovskaya, Andrey V. Epimakhov
In this paper, we analyze what can be learned about the meat supply of the Alakul miners of the Late Bronze Age using archaeozoology, Sr-isotope analysis, and radiocarbon dating techniques. The stu...
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Plant Remains and What Else? Environmental Archaeology of the Late Hellenistic Pit Fills of Sexaginta Prista, Northern Bulgaria Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Mila Andonova-Katsarski, Varbin Varbanov, Stefan Kazakov, Ivailo Dedov, Diana Vladova
This study combines several categories of environmental remains retrieved from machine-assisted water flotation samples, originating from the pit field of the Late Hellenistic archaeological site o...
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Water Table Fluctuations and Degradation Risk Assessment at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel Rábago, Vasiliki Andreaki, Xavier Terradas, Antoni Palomo, Raquel Piqué
Pile dwelling sites in Mediterranean lakes face increasing threats to their conservation and safeguarding from climate change and its associated impacts. The primary objective of this study is to i...
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Shifting the Sands – Early Islamic Modification of the Caesarea Sandy Lowlands into Plot-and-Berm Water-Harvesting Agroecosystem Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 L. Robins, J. Roskin, E. Grono, N. Porat, R. Bookman, A. Ostrowski, I. Taxel
During the Early Islamic period, several emerging agricultural innovations enabled the cultivation of summer crops in unproductive Mediterranean lands. This necessitated the development of water ha...
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Agricultural Development in the Context of the 6th Century Crisis – A Synthesis of Plant-Macrofossil Data from Southwestern Norway Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Sara Westling
The transition between the Early and Late Iron Age in Southwestern Norway, around AD 550, is a transformative time when the archaeological material displays major changes and the number of finds an...
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Vegetation History and Diversity of Archaeological Contexts at the Roztoky Site from the Anthracological Perspective Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jan Novák, Martin Prach
Our study compares different groups of anthracological records (archaeo-anthracological; pedoanthracological) for a more complex reconstruction of woodland history in the surroundings of the archae...
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Hearth Residue Analysis Reveals Human Adaptation to the Younger Dryas on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Bin Han, Nanning Lyu, Xiaoliang Chen, Junchi Liu, Sunmei Jin, Lyuting Wang, Huiyun Rao, Guangliang Hou, Yimin Yang
Human adaptation to the extreme environment of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has drawn widespread attention as a case study on how to successfully deal with environmental changes. However, litt...
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Late and Final Neolithic Land Use Reconstructions Based on Floodplain Deposits from the ‘Nachtweide’ Site in Hesse, Central Germany – a Challenge for Palynology Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Magda Wieckowska-Lüth, Christoph Rinne
This study reconstructs land use history with a focus on the Late and Final Neolithic using palynological data from floodplain deposits in the state of Hesse, central Germany. Our results demonstra...
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Wood-Use Strategies at a Han Dynasty Military Outpost: New Archaeological Evidence from Shichengzi, Xinjiang Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Pengfei Sheng, Kuangyuan Nong, Xiaohong Tian, Yong Wu, Edward Allen
The study analyses wood samples recovered from diverse archaeological contexts (a gate, tomb and kiln) at the Shichengzi site, an Eastern Han Dynasty garrison in modern-day Xinjiang dating from the...
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Isotopic Insights into Livestock Production in Roman Italy: Diet, Seasonality, and Mobility on an Imperial Estate Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Angela Trentacoste, Michael MacKinnon, Christopher Day, Petrus Le Roux, Michael Buckley, Myles McCallum, Maureen Carroll
Agriculture is the most important intersection between farming communities and the natural world, with major implications for land exploitation and labour organisation. In Italy, at the heart of th...
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Correction Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-23
Published in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Ros Jérôme, Angèle Jeanty, Bouby Laurent, Flora Garcia, Kotarba Jérôme, Passarrius Olivier, Puig Carole, Bénézet Jérôme, Guinaudeau Nicolas, Evin Allowen
The north-western Mediterranean rural world underwent major socioeconomic and cultural changes between the Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, with a decisive impact on the evolutio...
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Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, Fernando Muñiz Guinea, Francisco Ruiz Muñoz, Maria Luz González-Regalado, Juan Manuel Vargas Jímenez, Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Teodosio Donaire Romero, Joaquin Rodríguez-Vidal, Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro
In the Mio-Pliocene calcareous sandstone slabs used as capstones at La Pastora tholos in the Copper Age megasite of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (SW Spain), marine bioerosion str...
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Evaluating Non-destructive Analysis and Sampling Methods for Identifying Plant and Animal Imprints in Late Pre-contact Wattle and Daub Rubble from the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 William D. Harris
Past analyses of burned wattle and daub rubble from Native American house excavations have shown that plant and animal-related imprints sometimes occur in daub fragments. This paper evaluates the u...
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Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Céline Zaugg, Martin A. Guggisberg, Werner Vach, Matthew J. Cooper, Claudia Gerling
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of ne...
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What Bit the Ancient Egyptians? Niche Modelling to Identify the Snakes Described in the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Elysha McBride, Isabelle C. Winder, Wolfgang Wüster
The Brooklyn Papyrus is a medical treatise from Ancient Egypt (∼660–330 BCE) focusing on snakebite. Herpetologists have proposed identifications for many of the animals it describes, but some remai...
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Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Marta Portillo, Joaquim Sisa-López de Pablo, Joan Oller, Jordi Morera, Oriol Olesti
Over the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human lifeways, primarily within cave...
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Exploring Dietary Differentiation in the Roman Province of Macedonia: Isotopic Evidence from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Nea Kerdylia-Strovolos Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Chryssa Vergidou, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Penelope Malama, Konstantinos Darakis, Michael W. Dee, Sofia Voutsaki, Efthymia Nikita, Petra Vaiglova
ABSTRACT This paper used stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) to examine whether intra- and inter-site sex and age differences existed within two distinct communities of Roman Macedonia in relation to the dietary preferences of their inhabitants. It also explored the degree of influence that the micro-ecology characterising the sub-region each community used to reside and the social status of these
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Using Phytolith, Geochemical and Ethnographic Analysis to Inform on Site Construction and Activities in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia: Case Studies from Wadi Faynan 16 and ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 S. L. Allcock, S. Elliott, E. L. Jenkins, C. Palmer, G. Rollefson, J. Grattan, B. Finlayson
ABSTRACT This paper explores what can be learned about settlement construction and use in the southwest Asian Neolithic from phytolith, geochemical and ethnographic analysis. This period was targeted because, despite its importance, our understanding of building practices and use of space within settlements is sometimes limited. We chose the sites of WF16 and ‘Ain Ghazal as case studies and compared
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Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs
ABSTRACT Traditionally, phytolith research focusses on the study of bulk samples collected during archaeological field campaigns. However, phytoliths are frequently reported by soil micromorphologists studying their archaeological soil and sediment thin sections. Within these thin sections all components, including the phytoliths, are captured in the position they had in the original soil and sediment
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The Economic Role of Animals Amid the Chaos of the Crumbling Roman Empire. A Look at the South-eastern Alpine Region in Late Antiquity Based on Archaeozoology and Ancient Literary Sources Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Borut Toškan, Anja Ragolič
ABSTRACT In recent decades, several Roman Period sites, from villas to urban centres, have been studied archaeozoologically in present-day Slovenia, providing a solid understanding of the characteristics of animal husbandry in the first three centuries AD. Much less is known about the production, supply, and use of animal resources in Late Antiquity, mainly due to the meagre amount of (published) data
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Pests of Society: Introduction to the Special Issue Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Zoë Hazell, Ruth Pelling, David Smith
In 2018, the University of Birmingham, UK, hosted a weekend of events for the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA)’s spring conference ‘Pests of Society’. The event was organised in coll...
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New Microfossil Approaches and Multi-Proxy Analysis Reveal Precontact Polynesian Translocations and Plant Use, Marquesas Islands Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Mark Horrocks, Melinda S. Allen, Ashleigh Fox
ABSTRACT This analysis of microfossils (pollen, phytoliths, starch) from sites on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands builds on previous paleoethnobotanical studies and reports new technical approaches to Araceae (aroid) identification. Results show direct evidence of plant translocations, crop production, and wild plant gathering consistent with ethnographic accounts, with samples dating from the settlement
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Diversity of Free-Threshing Wheat in Early Medieval England Supported by Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Grains Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Tina Roushannafas, Mark McKerracher
ABSTRACT Observations of atypical grains and relatively small quantities of diagnostic rachis fragments have led to suggestions that a new type of wheat was introduced into Late Anglo-Saxon agriculture (c. AD 850–1066). This crop was a tetraploid free-threshing wheat (FTW), potentially unknown in Britain since the Neolithic. Based on growing requirements, this wheat is considered to have most likely
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Evaluation of the Rapid Phytolith Extraction Protocol to Identify the Fuel-mix Used at the Nineteenth-century Sugar Mill of El Progreso Plantation, Galápagos Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Fernando J. Astudillo
ABSTRACT Phytoliths analysis was applied to identify the fuel compound used at the steam-powered sugar mill of El Progreso plantation during the late nineteenth century. The microfossil record shows that the fuel compound used was a combination of native wood taxa and introduced grasses to San Cristóbal Island in the 1870s. The rapid extraction protocol was applied and appears as an alternative for
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Molluscs as Personal Adornment in a Gravettian Context from Cueva de Ardales (Málaga, Spain) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 J. J. Cantillo-Duarte, G.-C. Weniger, P. Cantalejo, S. Domínguez-Bella, E. Molina-Piernas, T. Otto, M. Rotgänger, M. Kehl, M. M. Espejo, D. Fernández-Sánchez, Y. Tafelmaier, E. Vijande-Vila, S. Becerra-Martín, L. Gómez-Sánchez, J. Ramos-Muñoz
ABSTRACT Molluscs used as personal adornment in Gravettian context are scarce in the Iberian Peninsula. Less than 200 pieces have been barely found along the Mediterranean, and most of them in coastal sites. This article presents thirteen new items – in the majority of marine origin – found by a Spanish-German team during a joint research project in Cueva de Ardales (Ardales, Malaga, Spain). The cave
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Corded Ware Culture Plant Gathering at the Narva-Jõesuu IIB Settlement and Burial Site in Estonia Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Santeri Vanhanen, Aivar Kriiska, Kerkko Nordqvist
ABSTRACT Plant use of the Corded Ware Culture (2800–2000 cal BC) communities in Estonia and more broadly in the eastern Baltic area has not been systematically studied using archaeobotanical methods. This article presents the first archaeobotanical study from a Stone Age context in Estonia, and discusses plant use at the Corded Ware Culture settlement and burial site of Narva-Jõesuu IIB in the north-eastern
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Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 V. Pescini, G. Certini, G. Mastrolonardo
ABSTRACT This contribution presents interdisciplinary research on charcoal hearth remains carried out at Poggio di Montieri, Central Italy, a hill heavily exploited in the Middle Ages for the extraction of silver-bearing ore, and then managed until the nineteenth century with a multiple land use system based on pasture. Linking together pedological and archaeological surveys with anthracological,
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Water as a Strategic Resource in the Western Samaria Region – The Unique Case of Deir Sam’an: The Water System that Has Been Operating for 1,500 Years Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Yair Elmakayes, David Ben-Shlomo, Yaakov Anker, Amos Frumkin
ABSTRACT Maintaining a proper water supply is a subject of constant concern in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, including the Mediterranean Basin and, more specifically, Western Samaria. Solutions such as cisterns, reservoirs, water tunnels, and springs were developed and perfected throughout history to enable a regular supply of water to the local population. The case of Deir Sam’an is particularly
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An Investigation of Ancient Water Collection and Storage Systems Near the Karahantepe Neolithic Site Using UAV and GIS Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Nizar Polat
This study aimed to investigate the ancient water collection and storage systems near the Karahantepe Neolithic Site, located 500 m to the north, utilising unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The util...
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Archaeobotanical and Dendrochronological Studies of a Spanish Colonial Settlement in Nahuel Huapi (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Laura Caruso Fermé, Marcia Bianchi Villelli, Ricardo Villalba, María Eugenia Aciar
ABSTRACT With the aim of providing information based on interethnic relationships in the Patagonian territory after the seventeenth century, we present a study on the archaeological site Cancha de Pelota Llao Llao (Bariloche, Río Negro Province, Argentina), which is associated with the colonial presence in the Nahuel Huapi Lake area. The aim of this work is twofold: to learn about the space and woody
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A First Detailed Study of an Austrian Neolithic Pile Dwelling’s Bryophyte Flora Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Thorsten Jakobitsch, Harald Zechmeister
ABSTRACT The circum-alpine pile dwellings, ranging from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age, offer a vast amount of well-preserved botanical material for archaeobotanical studies. Mosses are a common find in these waterlogged sediments, yet they are rarely analysed in detail. The case study of the recently excavated Mooswinkel pile dwelling at the Austrian lake Mondsee will give an insight into
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Palaeoenvironmental Framing of the O Areal Roman Saltworks and Related Anthropogenic Activities in North-western Iberia Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Lourdes López-Merino, Rebeca Tallón-Armada, Manuela Costa-Casais, Noemí Silva-Sánchez, José Antonio López-Sáez, Antonio Martínez Cortizas
ABSTRACT The NW Iberian city of Vigo contains buried structures of a Roman salinae that follow the ancient coastline. To investigate its environmental legacy, we studied two pedo-sedimentary profiles at the O Areal saltworks to reconstruct human activities during and after the salinae use, as well as framing them within the last two millennia of climate variability. The bottom layer consists of organic-rich
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Correction Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24
Published in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Finding Medieval Medicine Through Archaeobotany: An Ontological Approach Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Rebecca Blakeney, Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Karoline Kjesrud, Anneleen Kool
ABSTRACT An ontological approach to medieval archaeobotany could assist in uncovering otherwise obscure evidence of complex human-plant interactions. In particular, archaeobotanical remains could contribute more toward research on medieval medicine and understandings of human and environmental health. This article considers ways in which current archaeobotanical methods and practices may be limiting
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The Epigravettian Site of Yudinovo, Russia: Mammoth Bone Structures as Ritualised Middens Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Mikhail Sablin, Natasha Reynolds, Karina Iltsevich, Mietje Germonpré
ABSTRACT We present here the results of a study of woolly mammoth remains from Yudinovo (Bryansk oblast, Russia) and argue for a revised interpretation of Late Upper Palaeolithic mammoth bone structures in Eastern Europe. Five distinct mammoth bone accumulations have been identified in the main (lower) archaeological layer of Yudinovo, dated to ca. 14.9–14.5 14C kya BP (ca. 18.2–17.6 kya cal BP). Taphonomic
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Stable Isotope Composition (C and N) of Vegetation in Subtropical Andes: Piedmont ‘Anomaly’ and its Implications for Paleo (Ecology) and Human Diet Reconstruction Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Julieta Aranibar, Julieta Arco Molina, Gustavo Neme, Fidel Roig, Diego Cabral, Gisela Quiroga, Armando Dauverné, Leandro Álvarez, Adolfo Gil
ABSTRACT Isotope baselines are fundamental to infer diets, and to evaluate trophic relationships between humans, animals, and plants. In this study, we aim to detect spatial patterns of δ13C and δ15N of different plant types (C3, C4 and CAM) along environmental gradients in the eastern slopes of the southern Andes, in order to use them as a baseline to reconstruct animal diet, mobility, and trophic
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The Oriental Cockroach Blatta orientalis L. Recovered from Early Roman London: Implications for Past Distribution and Roman Trade Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David Smith, Karen Stewart, Emily Goddard
This paper describes the recovery and identification of oothecae of the oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis L.) from deposits associated with an Early Romano-British bakery oven from Roman Londin...
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Investigation of Seasonal Settlement and Clam Harvest Pressure in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia, Canada, Through Sclerochronology and Stable Oxygen Isotope Analyses Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Natasha Leclerc, Sarah Kuehn, Terence Clark, Meghan Burchell, Gary Coupland, Bernd R. Schöne
ABSTRACT The Sechelt inlet system (SIS), situated on the inner Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, lies within the territory of the shíshálh Nation. This study focuses on ∼1000 years of shíshálh shellfish harvesting from 930-0 cal. BP. Specifically, we investigated the seasonal timing of shellfish collection, relative shellfish harvesting pressure and paleo-temperature reconstruction at four archaeological
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q56The Midlands of England: Economic Backwater or an Agricultural Powerhouse? Environmental Evidence from Prehistory to Modern Times Recorded in Sediments from Aqualate Mere, Central England, UK Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 T. M. Mighall, N. J. Pittam, I. D. L. Foster, P. M. Ledger, J. Jordan, A. Martínez Cortizas, M. Bateman
ABSTRACT Archaeological and palaeoecological evidence relating to human activity in the English Midlands is scant compared to elsewhere in Britain. Knowledge of human activity in pre-Roman and Roman times is often fragmentary and disparate in parts of the region where it could be assumed that the resident population was small with little Roman impact. To examine these contentions, a palaeoenvironmental
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Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Joseph Mitchell, Mitchell R. Childress, Thomas W. French
ABSTRACT Zooarchaeological mollusc assemblages can show communities as they existed prior to any extensive modern impacts, representing an ecological baseline against which current populations can be evaluated. Here data are presented from the Pruitt Shelter sites (Late Woodland-Early Mississippian; ca. AD 700–1300), located on the Buffalo National River (Arkansas), where over 1000 freshwater mussels
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Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence: A European Perspective Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Noemí Silva-Sánchez, Xose-Lois Armada
ABSTRACT The imperial expansion of Rome resulted in an unprecedented intensification of industrial activity, including mining and metallurgical operations. Despite this is a well-known phenomenon, establishing the local narratives behind it is still problematic due to the inherent limitations of mining archaeology and palaeoenvironmental approaches. This paper offers a systematic review of metal palaeopollution
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Animals, Crops and Dark Earth: An Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Development from the Late Roman Period to the Early Middle Ages in Cologne (Germany) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Idoia Grau-Sologestoa, Christine Pümpin, Astrid Röpke, Richard Exaltus, Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Philippe Rentzel, Sabine Deschler-Erb
ABSTRACT Cologne constituted one of the political and economic centres of the northernmost frontier (limes) region of the Roman Empire, and was at the core of important socio-political upheavals following its collapse. Here, an interdisciplinary approach (combining zooarchaeology, archaeobotany and soil micromorphology) is applied to examine the late Roman and early medieval periods of the city. This
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A Fluctuating Environment: Micromorphological and Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Early Iron Age Lakeshore Settlement at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Peter Trebsche, Marlies Verena Außerlechner, Susanna Cereda, Helena Seidl da Fonseca, Markus Staudt
ABSTRACT Since its discovery in 1981, the site at Traunkirchen has remained among the very few Iron Age lakeshore settlements in the Circum-Alpine region. Micromorphological and archaeobotanical analyses of drilled cores from the lake bottom help to reconstruct the taphonomy of the Early Iron Age cultural layers and past environmental conditions. Our study also reveals that the water level of Lake
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Paleoparasitological and Archaeobotanical Studies of Fecal Remains from the Argentine Puna (Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, province of Jujuy, 11th to 15th centuries) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Darío Alejandro Ramirez, Aldana Melisa Tavarone, Egly Verónica Pérez Pincheira, María de los Milagros Colobig, Diego Martín Basso, María Ornela Beltrame, Rodrigo Nores
ABSTRACT Paleoparasitological and archaeobotanical studies provide useful information to reconstruct past scenarios where humans and animals inhabited. However, multi-proxy studies including these research lines are scarce. Here we applied paleoparasitological and archaeobotanical techniques to study a carnivore coprolite and a dung ball from Pueblo Viejo de Tucute archaeological site, in the Argentine
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War Horses and Equine Herd Feeding Management at the End of the Third Century BC: New Insights from Pech Maho (Southern France) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Antigone Uzunidis, Leïa Mion, Nicolas Boulbes, Audrey Renaud, Eric Gailledrat, Armelle Gardeisen
ABSTRACT The emporion of Pech Maho was destroyed after a warlike event at the end of the third century BC. Shortly after that, around 200 BC, the site was resettled. This reuse is characterised above all by massive deposits of equid carcasses in various locations around the city. The conditions of these deposits are investigated in this paper. We focus on examining several biological parameters (weight
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Bioarchaeological Characteristics of the Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Consumed at Different Parts of the Early Medieval Settlement Agglomeration of Mikulčice-Kopčany (9th–10th Century AD, Czech Republic) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Michaela Látková, Roman Skála, Sylva Drtikolová Kaupová
ABSTRACT Archaeological hypotheses about the functioning of agriculture in the Great Moravian period in Central Europe are based primarily on the evaluation of artefacts or the character of the built structures in the vicinity of the central sites. Thanks to the introduction of new bioarchaeological methods, in particular isotope and archaeobotanical analyses, into archaeological research, it has been
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Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jordan Wilson, David G. Pickel, Timothy Newfield, Sierra Malis
ABSTRACT The late antique (ca. mid. 5th century CE) infant and child cemetery at Poggio Gramignano near Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria, Italy) is well-known for its association with malaria. However, less is known about the community members most closely connected to this cemetery space–in particular, the the infants' mothers. This paper more closely explores the health of the 62 individuals who have
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Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Louise Iles, Catherine Longford, Lenny Salvagno, Michael Wallace
Published in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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Consequences of Lake Expansion and Disappearance for the Complex of Bronze and Iron Age Settlements at Bruszczewo (Western Poland, Central Europe) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Jakub Niebieszczański, Piotr Kołaczek, Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Mariusz Gałka, Jutta Kneisel
ABSTRACT The archaeological microregion in Bruszczewo located along the middle course of the Samica River, was inhabited during the Bronze and Iron Ages by Únětice and Lusatian Urnfields culture people. Earlier literature emphasised that the valley floor was an extensive lake during the Bronze Age. Our research aimed to reconstruct the Bronze and Early Iron Age development of the lake and its transition
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Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Stefka G. Eriksen, Elise Naumann
Published in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2023)
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Killing Cattle –Age Selection of Cattle at Iron Age Central Places in Third–Eleventh Century AD Sweden based on Tooth Wear Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Bettina Stolle, Ola Magnell
ABSTRACT Cattle were the most important livestock in Iron Age Scandinavia and have been utilised in multiple ways. This paper aims to investigate the kill-off patterns of cattle in the first millennium (third–eleventh century) AD at four complex and multifunctional sites in Sweden, namely Helgö, Gamla Uppsala, Uppåkra and Stanstorp. The mortality profiles are derived from data on tooth development
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Life, Death and Teeth of Late Neolithic Sheep and Red Deer Excavated at Ness of Brodgar, Orkney Islands (UK) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Magdalena Blanz, Marie Balasse, Nick Card, Philippa Ascough, Denis Fiorillo, Mark A. Taggart, Jörg Feldmann, Ingrid Mainland
ABSTRACT The faunal remains from the late Neolithic site of Ness of Brodgar on the Orkney Islands (UK) provide a unique opportunity to investigate past adaptations of animal husbandry strategies to the Northern island environment, as well as the potential management of red deer. In this study, sheep and red deer mandibles and loose teeth (dP4 & M3) from the Ness of Brodgar were studied to construct
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Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Weston C. McCool, Kurt M. Wilson, Kenneth B. Vernon
ABSTRACT Prehispanic agricultural populations in the central Andes exhibit some of the highest rates of lethal and sublethal trauma ever recorded. Explanations for high rates of violence focus on what factors drove proactive conflict. While it is true that incentives for proactive violence must exist for high rates of trauma to ensue, it is far less recognized how ecological conditions may promote
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The Roman Legacy on European Chestnut and Walnut Arboriculture Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Patrik Krebs, Fabiano Ulmke, Willy Tinner, Marco Conedera
ABSTRACT The political and administrative unification process under the Roman Empire resulted not only in a progressive linguistic, religious, and cultural homogenisation of the concerned population, but also in the need of trade and exchanges for satisfying new dietary habits and markets. In this paper, we use palaeoecological pollen and macroremain records extracted from Neotoma online database and
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Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement: The Former Ventspils Lagoon Area, Latvia Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Valdis Bērziņš, Edijs Breijers, Edyta Kalińska, Māris Krievāns
ABSTRACT This article considers a newly developed model of Holocene shoreline displacement in the southern part of the former Ventspils Lagoon of the Baltic Sea basin (present-day western Latvia) in relation to data from previous and new archaeological research in the area, assessing the changing pattern of Stone Age settlement and resource utilisation during the Mesolithic and Neolithic. An extensive
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A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Carlos D. García-Moreno, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Olalla López-Costas
ABSTRACT Whether a Roman diet existed is a constant issue in Classical archaeology, as it is also its persistence in late Antiquity. Here, we review the isotopic composition (δ13Ccol and δ15Ncol ) of 15 (n = 384) necropolis dating to the 1st to 8th centuries AD from Hispania. We worked with human and animal raw data and calculated the human enrichment regarding herbivoreś average. Although diet was
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Correction Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-22
Published in Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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The Environment and its Exploitation Along the Lower Scheldt River During the Roman Period (Wichelen, Belgium – Late 1st to 3rd Centuries AD) Environ. Archaeol. (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 E. Meylemans, J. Bastiaens, F. Bogemans, T. Clerbaut, S. Debruyne, K. Deforce, A. Ervynck, A. Lentacker, Y. Perdaen, A. Storme, N. Vanholme, W. Van Neer
ABSTRACT The large number of rural Roman settlements known from the Low Countries is generally characterised by a poor preservation of ecological proxies due to the absence of waterlogged contexts. The riverside site of Wijmeers (Wichelen, Belgium), a small rural settlement located in the Lower Scheldt basin, represents a rare exception to this pattern. Due to the presence of a waterlogged sequence