{"title":"Identifying the “unidentifiable”: The basketry plants of the Late Cycladic Akrotiri","authors":"Mila Andonova-Katsarski","doi":"10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105168","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The general purpose of this study is the first identification of vegetal basketry remains from the Late Cycladic Akrotiri (island of Thera, Greece) where after the eruption of the Theran volcano (c.1600 BC) products of the basket-making craft have been preserved in an excellent stage. The application of archaeobotanical analysis in combination with Scanning Electron Microscopy made possible the taxonomic identification of very challenging basketry remains below the traditional sample size. This contributed to the methodology for the analysis of perishable archaeological plant remains and illustrated the potential that such perishable plant remains have for the study craft practices in the past.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54488,"journal":{"name":"Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology","volume":"329 ","pages":"Article 105168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666724001192","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PALEONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The general purpose of this study is the first identification of vegetal basketry remains from the Late Cycladic Akrotiri (island of Thera, Greece) where after the eruption of the Theran volcano (c.1600 BC) products of the basket-making craft have been preserved in an excellent stage. The application of archaeobotanical analysis in combination with Scanning Electron Microscopy made possible the taxonomic identification of very challenging basketry remains below the traditional sample size. This contributed to the methodology for the analysis of perishable archaeological plant remains and illustrated the potential that such perishable plant remains have for the study craft practices in the past.
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The Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology is an international journal for articles in all fields of palaeobotany and palynology dealing with all groups, ranging from marine palynomorphs to higher land plants. Original contributions and comprehensive review papers should appeal to an international audience. Typical topics include but are not restricted to systematics, evolution, palaeobiology, palaeoecology, biostratigraphy, biochronology, palaeoclimatology, paleogeography, taphonomy, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, vegetation history, and practical applications of palaeobotany and palynology, e.g. in coal and petroleum geology and archaeology. The journal especially encourages the publication of articles in which palaeobotany and palynology are applied for solving fundamental geological and biological problems as well as innovative and interdisciplinary approaches.