A Roman well in Waldgirmes (Hesse, Germany): palynological analyses supported by plant macro-remains and micromorphological studies

Stobbe, Astrid; Rasbach, Gabriele; Röpke, Astrid; Rühl, Lisa

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“…The large-volume bulk samples are best suited to delve into palaeoeconomic issues as at least three litres of sediment is necessary to obtain representative records of all the key economic taxa ([ 24 , 25 ]). Small-volume monolith samples, on the contrary, ideally serve to target layer formation processes (e.g., [ 8 , 26 ]). The techniques are not mutually exclusive.…”

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Archaeobotanical and isotopic analyses of waterlogged remains from the Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Switzerland): Resilience strategies of a plant economy in a changing local environment

Steiner

Martínez-Grau²,

Bernasconi³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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The excellent preservation of the waterlogged botanical remains of the multiphase Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Central Switzerland) yielded an ideal dataset to delve into the issue of plant economy of a community spanning several decades. The study identified a major change in crops where oil plants played a key role in the site’s initial phase before being supplanted over the course of a few decades by naked wheat, barley and pea. Wild plants continued to be gathered albeit in different proportions. In the latest settlement phase, the changes in the local vegetation and in the values of the analyses of carbon stable isotopes suggest a less humid environment. The hypothesis is that the changes perceived in the plant economy represent a resilience strategy adopted by the inhabitants in reaction to short term local climatic alterations. The two types of soil sampling techniques (monolith and bulk) allowed comparing these results. While the density of plant remains appears to be underestimated among the samples collected by the monolith technique, the proportions of economic taxa remain unaffected. The findings thus reveal that when the bulk samplings are distributed carefully throughout multiphase sites and avoid mixing stratigraphical units, and if the samplings are representative of all archaeological features from a whole area, then each of the two techniques offer analogous results.

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Archaeobotanical and isotopic analyses of waterlogged remains from the Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Switzerland): Resilience strategies of a plant economy in a changing local environment

Steiner

Martínez-Grau²,

Bernasconi³

et al. 2022

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Lancelotti¹,

Madella²

2023

Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

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The German Landscape and Julio-Claudian Imperialism

Harris¹

2021

Klio

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Summary New scientific work on the ancient landscapes of Germany and Britain makes it very likely that the Roman decision to abandon attempts to conquer Germany as far as the Elbe, most clearly expressed by Tiberius in 16 AD, was strongly influenced by perceptions of the heavily wooded landscape of that region. There were other reasons too: the concern of emperors to hinder potential rivals; the sheer difficulty of advancing to the Elbe; and the increasing concern of the emperor and his advisers for the fiscal effects of this and other potential conquests. But what is new is that the evidence of arboreal and non-arboreal pollen shows that Germany was a less attractive target than agrarian England.

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A Roman well in Waldgirmes (Hesse, Germany): palynological analyses supported by plant macro-remains and micromorphological studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Archaeobotanical and isotopic analyses of waterlogged remains from the Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Switzerland): Resilience strategies of a plant economy in a changing local environment

Archaeobotanical and isotopic analyses of waterlogged remains from the Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Switzerland): Resilience strategies of a plant economy in a changing local environment

Archaeobotany

The German Landscape and Julio-Claudian Imperialism

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