A re-analysis of agricultural production and consumption: implications for understanding the British Iron Age

Veen, Marijke van der; Jones, Glynis

doi:10.1007/s00334-006-0040-3

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“…Harvesting is addressed again below, but it is worth noting here that an important recent agenda in archaeobotany has been the need to improve our understanding of the different strategies involved in crop-processing (e.g. Van der Veen and Jones 2006;Fuller ans Stevens 2009). Increasing attention has also been paid by Chinese archaeologists to this issue over the last few years, both in the discussion of carbonized plant remains (Fuller and Zhang 2007) and phytolith assemblages (Jin et al 2007).…”

Section: Research Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeobotanical and GIS-based approaches to prehistoric agriculture in the upper Ying valley, Henan, China

Hai

Bevan

Fuller

et al. 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Archaeobotanical survey has sampled a series of late Neolithic to early Bronze Age settlements in the upper Ying valley (part of the central plain of China) and provided useful data for understanding prehistoric arable ecology and farming during a period of increasing local social complexity. A combination of the modelling functions offered by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data reduction possibilities offered by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) allow us to explore the relationships between local arable ecology, crop-processing strategies and the natural environment. The results suggest that differences in the natural environment around each site are a good explanation for varying patterns of wild food collection, but in contrast, social and cultural factors seem to be much better at explaining variation in farming practice and crop-processing at different sites.

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Section: Research Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeobotanical and GIS-based approaches to prehistoric agriculture in the upper Ying valley, Henan, China

Hai

Bevan

Fuller

et al. 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Bog bodies such as Lindow Man, Tollund Man, and Grauballe Man (Briggs 1995;Turner 1996;Turner and Scaife 1995;Van der Sanden 1996) in Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Britain-both Celtic and Germanic regionsdisplay signs of ritual dispatch similar to what classical authors relate. Examples of decapitated or dismembered bodies are found across Europe (Wait 1995, pp.…”

Section: Offerings and Sacrificesmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…These clearly had no defensive purposes but were incorporated into later Iron Age features. Iron Age components at the extensively excavated site of Danebury lack elite residences in any period, and Iron Age pits of grain, once called storage features, are so small and few that they are now interpreted offerings to chthonic deities (van der Veen and Jones 2006;Williams 2003). Many other small pits containing bones also are far too small to match previous interpretations as food waste buried by garrisons of soldiers.…”

Section: Centralized Versus Decentralized Conceptualizations Of Iron mentioning

confidence: 98%

Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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“…Models for producer and consumer sites have, however, been seen as rather simplistic. Because these models relate to waste from the later stages of processing, new models have developed which pay attention to taphonomic processes involved in the formation of charred assemblages (van der Veen 1992, pp 91-99;van der Veen and Jones 2006).…”

Section: Crop Cleaning and Its Effect On Grain Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barley grain at Uppåkra, Sweden: evidence for selection in the Iron Age

Larsson

2017

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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A re-analysis of agricultural production and consumption: implications for understanding the British Iron Age

Cited by 75 publications

References 19 publications

Archaeobotanical and GIS-based approaches to prehistoric agriculture in the upper Ying valley, Henan, China

Archaeobotanical and GIS-based approaches to prehistoric agriculture in the upper Ying valley, Henan, China

Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Barley grain at Uppåkra, Sweden: evidence for selection in the Iron Age

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