2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.05.010
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Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

Abstract: Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For the first time, this paper reports on the census of the Holocene archaeological sites that have been studied as part of archaeobotany in Italy (continental Italy, the Italian peninsula and islands) over the last quarter in a century. Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, seeds and fruits, woods/charcoals and other plant remains have a… Show more

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“…The absence of diagnostic macroremains in this deposit prevents the possibility of distinguishing among the subspecies. At the beginning of Middle Bronze Age, pips with intermediate characteristics between the two subspecies sylvestris and vinifera were reported by several authors (Castello di Annone -Asti, Piedmont: Castelletti and Motella De Carlo, 1998; San Lorenzo a Greve e Florence, Tuscany: Aranguren et al, 2007; Portella, Salina e Sicily: Fiorentino et al, 2011;Marvelli et al, 2013;Mercuri et al, 2015b).…”
Section: Vitis: Wild or Domesticated Grapevine?mentioning
confidence: 82%
“…The absence of diagnostic macroremains in this deposit prevents the possibility of distinguishing among the subspecies. At the beginning of Middle Bronze Age, pips with intermediate characteristics between the two subspecies sylvestris and vinifera were reported by several authors (Castello di Annone -Asti, Piedmont: Castelletti and Motella De Carlo, 1998; San Lorenzo a Greve e Florence, Tuscany: Aranguren et al, 2007; Portella, Salina e Sicily: Fiorentino et al, 2011;Marvelli et al, 2013;Mercuri et al, 2015b).…”
Section: Vitis: Wild or Domesticated Grapevine?mentioning
confidence: 82%
“…This increasing human pressure on the landscape during the Bronze Age is not isolated to the Maltese archipelago or the central Mediterranean area (Mercuri, 2014) it has also been recorded throughout the whole region, between 5000 and 3000 cal BP, as societies and their associated ecological disturbances become more apparent (Sadori and Giardini, 2007;Mercuri et al, 2015). Sadori et al (2011) note two signals within the Mediterranean; the first corresponds to a climate event of 4300-3800 BP , that of a sudden and brief episode between 4400 and 4100 cal BP which initially affects the arboreal pollen concentration followed by the percentages (generally being accompanied by human presence indicators), then a second between 3900 and 3400 BP, which they suggest is slightly longer and involved intensive land exploitation.…”
Section: Bronze Agementioning
confidence: 94%
“…This result shows that pollen and seeds/fruits from archaeological sites are basically a result of human transport but a variable component from natural plant cover may be included in layers depending on the context (Sadori et al, 2010b;Swię ta-Musznicka et al, 2013;Mercuri et al, 2014a). The sediments of Trench Campi-S2 were accumulated out of an archaeological site, and therefore the contribution of natural plant cover to the deposit is expected to be higher than that in the archaeological layers.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…The plant taxa that were recurrent, sometimes dominant, in these on-site/off-site records represent both the plant cover and the species with cultural significance in the study area (Mercuri et al, 2014a).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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