A new archaeobotanical database program

Changing growing conditions for crops during the Near Eastern Bronze Age (3000–1200 BC): the stable carbon isotope evidence

“…During recent decades, our knowledge of agricultural decision-making in the past substantially increased through the acquisition and evaluation of bioarchaeological data, collected in numerous databases (Kreuz and Schaefer, 2002;Kroll, 2005;Riehl and Kümmel, 2005). Although we have a clear understanding of agricultural development for many areas and periods in the Near East and a considerable number of clarifying palaeoclimate proxies, the interrelationship between agricultural decision-making and climate change is still fragmentary (Riehl and Bryson, in press, and references therein).…”

The oldest Czech fishpond discovered? An interdisciplinary approach to reconstruction of local vegetation in mediaeval Prague suburbs

“…The wet-sieved and dried material was sorted under a binocular microscope and the plant seed/fruit remains were identified in the whole volume, using both a reference collection (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague) and determination literature (Katz et al, 1965;Cappers et al, 2006). The results of the carpological analysis were processed using the ArboDatMulti database programme (Kreuz & Schäfer, 2002) and became a part of the Czech archaeobotanical database CZAD (Pokorná et al, 2011). The nomenclature used in the following text was based on Kubát et al (2002) (vascular plants) and Chytrý & Tichý (2003) (vegetation units).…”

PLANT MACROFOSSIL METHODS AND STUDIES | Use in Environmental Archaeology

“…The best way to store data is a relational database, which forms also the basis for evaluations (e.g., see Kreuz and Schäfer, 2002). After identification, the grains, seeds, chaff, nutshell fragments, tubers, etc., are quantified for each sample that was investigated.…”