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Vegetation Hist Archaeobotany 13 (1)
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Vegetation Hist Archaeobotany 13 (1)
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Series:
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
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Volume:
13 (1)
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Journal
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Editor:
Felix Bittmann
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Publisher:
Springer
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Year of Publication:
2004
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date:
27 Jul 2005
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The use of historical analogues for interpreting fossil pollen records
Anne Birgitte Nielsen
Bent Vad Odgaard
33 - 43
Modern vegetational analogues of palaeo-landscapes, which could be useful for interpreting fossil pollen assemblages, are often not available, because increased human impact all over the world has altered the vegetation, and the way in which vegetation is recorded by pollen assemblages, including changes in species composition, pollen production, dispersal and sedimentation. Historical maps, survey records and other sources may, however, provide vegetation data for periods prior to this increased human impact, and these may be compared with pollen assemblages from the same period to provide historical analogue data sets. In this paper we review the use of historical analogues in pollen analysis to describe past vegetation patterns in relation to soil properties, climate and fire regimes, and to reconstruct past land use changes, forest composition and species range limits. The methods used include qualitative interpretations, analogue matching, ordination techniques and regression. Because the historical data sources were originally created for other purposes, they may lack the precision or detail needed for quantitative analysis.
Carbonized seeds in a protohistoric house: results of hearth and house experiments
Carmine Guarino
Rosaria Sciarrillo
65 - 70
The results of the hearth and house experiments show that different types of seeds of different cultivated plants char to different extents. Cereal grains show a lower resistance to high temperatures, whereas grape pips and pulses become completely carbonized at higher temperatures. These differences mainly depend upon the structure of the seeds (thickness of the seed coat) even if other factors (moisture content and weather), difficult to control and measure, are also involved. The experiments provide valuable information for the interpretation of archaeobotanical material found in a reconstructed protohistoric house. By comparing the laboratory results and those obtained in the field, it was possible to get much information about the carbonization process of archaeobotanical material.