Jones, G. and Halstead, P. (1995). Maslins, mixtures and monocrops: on the interpretation of archaeobotanical crop samples of heterogeneous composition. J Archaeol Sci 22 (1). Vol 22(1), pp. 103-114.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Maslins, mixtures and monocrops: on the interpretation of archaeobotanical crop samples of heterogeneous composition | ||
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
J Archaeol Sci 22 (1) | ||
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Journal of Archaeological Science | ||
Volume Volume number and part |
22 (1) | ||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
103 - 114 | ||
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
Botanical data from an ethnoarchaeological study of cereal and pulse crops (Greece) are used to explore alternative sources of mixed crop samples. In addition to more or less pure `monocrops', deliberately mixed `maslins' were grown to exploit the tendency of individual maslin components to perform more or less well under different growing conditions. The composition of these maslins was highly variable. Crop processing may introduce systematic bias into the composition of crop samples and is also deliberately used to manipulate the relative proportions of maslin components in a highly flexible manner. Both monocrops and maslins contain low-level contamination by other cultigens, and it is shown that these were mainly introduced with the seed corn and not through crop rotation or mixing on the threshing floor. Minor contaminants resembling the dominant cultigens in growth habit, seed size, etc, are not only hard to remove but also tend to be tolerated. The implications of these observations are discussed for the interpretation of mixed archaeobotanical crop samples. | ||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1995 | ||
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BIAB
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20 Jan 2002 |
