Miguel Tarongi, Laurent Bouby, Vincent Bonhomme, Natàlia Alonso
{"title":"Which pulse is it? Identifying archaeological legumes seeds by means of biometric measurements and geometric morphometrics","authors":"Miguel Tarongi, Laurent Bouby, Vincent Bonhomme, Natàlia Alonso","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00953-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00953-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The taxonomic identification of archaeological seeds of certain cultivated pulses is challenging due to a combination of low interspecific morphological differences and large intraspecific variability. This study develops biometric and morphogeometric models that establish which species have more similarities with the doubtful archaeological pulse seeds. The species under study are: Lathyrus cicera/sativus (grass pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia ervilia (bitter vetch), V. faba (broad bean), and V. sativa (vetch). The two models were trained on data from three different types of samples: contemporary uncharred seeds, contemporary charred seeds, and archaeological seeds. The last one consists of finds unearthed on Bronze and Iron Age sites throughout the Western Mediterranean and can be subdivided into two groups: clearly identified taxa and uncertain taxa. The biometric model resorts to the measurements of length, width and thickness of the three types of seeds so as to establish a discriminant linear model applicable to the uncertain archaeological seeds. The morphogeometric model is based on the shape of the three types of seeds gleaned from geometric morphometry. The uncertain archaeological seeds were then classified by means of a Linear Discriminant model based on shape descriptors. This study first assessed the accuracy of the two models stemming from observations of clearly defined contemporary and archaeological taxa. The results indicate that the models, in particular the morphogeometric, yield high predictive rates. These models therefore offer the possibility of re-identifying the taxa of doubtful archaeological seeds with a high degree of confidence and a minimal margin of error. The positive outcome of these models thus paves the way to more accurate determinations of archaeological legume seeds that heretofore have remained unidentified by traditional methods.","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136154822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hans-Peter Stika, Aleta Neugebauer, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch, Rafael Micó, Jordi Voltas, Paula Amengual, Lara Gelabert, Vicente Lull
{"title":"Crop cultivation in the Talayotic settlement of Son Fornés (Mallorca, Spain): agricultural practices on the western Mediterranean islands in the first millennium bce","authors":"Hans-Peter Stika, Aleta Neugebauer, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch, Rafael Micó, Jordi Voltas, Paula Amengual, Lara Gelabert, Vicente Lull","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00957-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00957-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Balearic Islands were colonised around the transition from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age, not earlier than 2300 cal bce and certainly much later than any central or eastern Mediterranean islands. The number of archaeobotanical records is low and consists mainly of cereals and a few pulses. We present here new results of our long-term study of Son Fornés, an archaeological site on Mallorca which was occupied since the beginning of the Iron Age Talayotic period (~ 850 cal bce ) and until Roman times (123 bce onwards), in the Balearic Islands. In the Talayotic period of Son Fornés Hordeum vulgare var. vulgare (hulled barley) and Triticum aestivum/durum/turgidum (free-threshing wheat) were the main cereals grown and Vicia faba (broad bean) was the main pulse, while Avena sp. (oats) is considered to have been a weed but was nonetheless consumed and was probably in an early phase of being domesticated. For the subsequent post-Talayotic (ca. 550 − 250 bce ), Classic I and Classic II, the Republican Roman occupation period (from 123 bce onwards) the databases are weak, displaying hulled barley as the main crop and broad bean as the main pulse. The archaeobotanical records of Ficus carica (fig), Olea europaea (olive) and Vitis vinifera (grapevine) represent wild or cultivated and domesticated forms. Prunus dulcis (almond) and Pinus pinea (stone pine) were found on Eivissa (Ibiza), pointing to a Phoenician introduction to the islands, while Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) and Castanea sativa (chestnut), found on Menorca, might have been brought in by the Romans. The number of crops being used on the Balearic Islands was limited when compared to sites of similar periods on the European mainland or the central and eastern Mediterranean islands. According to carbon isotope results of Δ 13 C, hulled barley grew under damper conditions than free-threshing wheat. The high δ 15 N values indicated that both crops were well-manured with animal dung during the entire occupation period.","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":"712 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135061117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shidong Chen, Kristiina Johanson, John Alphonsus Matthews, Sandra Sammler, Marie Anna Blehner, Siim Salmar, Ivo Leito, Ester Oras
{"title":"Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption: a case study of pottery food crusts from a Late Iron Age settlement at Pada, northeast Estonia","authors":"Shidong Chen, Kristiina Johanson, John Alphonsus Matthews, Sandra Sammler, Marie Anna Blehner, Siim Salmar, Ivo Leito, Ester Oras","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00950-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00950-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135308613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casper Sørensen, Peter Mose Jensen, Simone Nørgaard Mehlsen, Marie Kanstrup
{"title":"Late Bronze Age millet farmers at Arnbjerg N: an archaeobotanical analysis and a review of Late Bronze Age millet in Denmark","authors":"Casper Sørensen, Peter Mose Jensen, Simone Nørgaard Mehlsen, Marie Kanstrup","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00947-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00947-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iris K. de Wolf, T. Donders, Wim Z. Hoek, Marjolein Tij Gouw-Bouman, Thomas Giesecke
{"title":"Unlocking the wealth of Dutch pollen data for future research and education","authors":"Iris K. de Wolf, T. Donders, Wim Z. Hoek, Marjolein Tij Gouw-Bouman, Thomas Giesecke","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00951-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00951-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43196438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancient crop movements from South Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean","authors":"S. Muthukumaran","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00948-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00948-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47443821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph W. Handley, N. Branch, F. Meddens, M. Simmonds, José Iriarte
{"title":"Pre-Hispanic terrace agricultural practices and long-distance transfer of plant taxa in the southern-central Peruvian Andes revealed by phytolith and pollen analysis","authors":"Joseph W. Handley, N. Branch, F. Meddens, M. Simmonds, José Iriarte","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00946-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00946-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42785689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Magda Kapcia, Aurélie Salavert, W. Alexandrowicz, Thomas Saile, Dmytro Kiosak, M. Dębiec
{"title":"Archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental analyses from the easternmost Early Neolithic sites at Kamyane-Zavallia (Ukraine) and Nicolaevca V (Moldova)","authors":"Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Magda Kapcia, Aurélie Salavert, W. Alexandrowicz, Thomas Saile, Dmytro Kiosak, M. Dębiec","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00944-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00944-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45642081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Tsirtsi, Clémence Pagnoux, V. Bonhomme, S. Ivorra, J. Terral, Evi Margaritis
{"title":"Development of olive cultivation at the site of Sikyon, Greece: evidence from the charred olive remains from the late Classical/early Hellenistic to the Roman period","authors":"K. Tsirtsi, Clémence Pagnoux, V. Bonhomme, S. Ivorra, J. Terral, Evi Margaritis","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00943-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00943-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46987482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Pérez‐Díaz, M. Ruiz-Alonso, J. A. López-Sáez, A. Alday, Ana Cava-Almuzara
{"title":"Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition","authors":"S. Pérez‐Díaz, M. Ruiz-Alonso, J. A. López-Sáez, A. Alday, Ana Cava-Almuzara","doi":"10.1007/s00334-023-00942-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00942-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23527,"journal":{"name":"Vegetation History and Archaeobotany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47375088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}