Seeds/fruits, pollen and parasite remains as evidence of site function: piazza Garibaldi – Parma (N Italy) in Roman and Mediaeval times

Food plants in anthropogenic sediments as represented in pollen and macrofossil spectra: a case study on waterlogged Roman sediments from Switzerland and Alsace, France

“…on well deposits Knörzer and Meurers-Balke 1990;Knörzer et al 1995;Kalis and MeurersBalke 1998;Meurers-Balke et al 1999;Zach et al 2010), shipwrecks (Pals andHakbijl 1992;Robinson and Aaby 1994), latrines ( Van den Brink 1988;Brinkkemper and De Man 1996;Kuijper and Turner 1992;Kalis et al 2005) and pits (Mariotti Lippi et al 2009). These very often serve palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (Van Geel et al 2003;Mercuri et al 2006;Sadori et al 2010;Bosi et al 2011;Święta-Musznicka et al 2013; Van den Bos et al 2014) in connection with agricultural practices, e.g. the beginning of viticulture before the arrival of the Romans in Valais (Curdy et al 2009).…”

The evolution of Roman urban environments through the archaeobotanical remains in Modena – Northern Italy

“…Traces of luxury food found in rubbish pits confirmed the high social status of the ruling dukes (Este family; Bosi et al, 2009). In the same region, a significant land transformation occurred in the area which is currently the historical centre of Parma; the vegetal waste and parasite remains found in rubbish pits show that the site was a sacred area during the Roman age and a market during the Medieval ages (Bosi et al, 2011a;. All this research demonstrates that the environmental development of urban areas unquestionably depends on the cultural history of people who have transformed them over time (Bosi et al, 2011b;Rinaldi et al, 2013).…”

Estudio palinológico del yacimiento romano de La Vereda (Burguillos, Sevilla): de la reconstrucción paleoambiental a la funcionalidad de las estructuras

“…Mientras que los macrorrestos vegetales, particularmente semillas y frutos carbonizados, ofrecen una clara evidencia sobre la presencia de graneros y otras instalaciones de almacenamiento, así como letrinas o basureros de una manera generalizada (Bandini Mazzanti et al 2005), existen muy pocos pero en cambio interesantísimos ejemplos que muestran cómo la señal polínica puede arrojar luz sobre el uso particular dado a ciertas estructuras o lugares (Mariotti Lippi et al 2009;Bosi et al 2011).…”