The missing woodland resources: Archaeobotanical studies of the use of plant raw materialsMarian Berihuete-Azorín, María Martín Seijo, Oriol López-Bultó, Raquel Piqué Barkhuis, 5 feb 2022 - 189 pagina's Woodlands are a key source of raw materials for many purposes since early Prehistory. Wood, bark, resin, leaves, fibers, fungi, moss, or tubers have been gathered to fulfill almost every human need. That led societies to develop specific technologies to acquire, manage, transform, elaborate, use, and consume these resources. The materials provided by woodlands covered a wide range of necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, or tool production, but they also provided resources employed for waterproofing, dying, medicine, and adhesives, among many others. All these technological processes and uses are commonly difficult to identify through the archaeological record. Some materials are exclusively preserved by charring or in anaerobic conditions at very exceptional sites or leave only a very slight trace behind them (e.g., containers). Consequently, they have received far less attention in archaeobotanical studies compared to other kind of plant materials consumed as food or firewood. This book provides an overview of technological uses of plants from the Palaeolithic to the Post-Medieval period. This collection of papers presents different archaeobotanical and archaeological studies dealing with the use of a wide range of woodland resources, most of them among the less visible for archaeology, such as bast, fibers, and fungi. These papers present different approaches for their study combining archaeology, archaeobotany, and ethnoarchaeology. |
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Evidence of the presence and use of Neolithic oil plants in the NW of the Mediterranean and the Swiss Plateau | 23 |
Woody and nonwoody forest raw material at the early Neolithic site of La Draga Banyoles Spain | 41 |
Matimpressions on pottery from Neolithic and Chalcolithic Bulgaria | 59 |
An anthracological synthesis for El Argar 22001550 cal BC | 69 |
Technological knowhow and materiality | 97 |
Usage of tree bast in the Baltic Sea region based on 14th century cog finds | 111 |
Case studies from Lanyu southern Taiwan and the Batanes northern Philippine islands | 123 |
A palaeoethnobotanical assessment of plant use by hunterfisherherders in the Siberian taiga | 153 |
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