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{"title":"Isotopic Insights into Livestock Production in Roman Italy: Diet, Seasonality, and Mobility on an Imperial Estate","authors":"A. Trentacoste, Michael MacKinnon, Christopher Day, Petrus Le Roux, Michael Buckley, Myles McCallum, Maureen Carroll","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2282866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2282866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"48 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138594010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agricultural Dynamics in Southwestern Mediterranean France from the End of the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages","authors":"Ros Jérôme, Angèle Jeanty, Bouby Laurent, Flora Garcia, Kotarba Jérôme, Passarrius Olivier, Puig Carole, Bénézet Jérôme, Guinaudeau Nicolas, Evin Allowen","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2271257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2271257","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe north-western Mediterranean rural world underwent major socioeconomic and cultural changes between the Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, with a decisive impact on the evolution of agricultural production, practices and landscapes. Roman expansion led to the spread of villae (2nd–1st c. BC), leading to a new structuration of rural areas and the development of a speculative agriculture that favoured wine production. By the end of the Roman period, new changes are observed: while certain Roman villae are still occupied, the appearance of a new network of rural settlements reveals the emergence of a new form of rural economy. Although these changes are increasingly well documented by archaeology, their impact on the agrarian production and practices remains little explored. The multiplication of archaeobotanical investigations in southwestern Mediterranean France allows us to present a first review of farming practices and their evolution during this key period. The study of 30 rural sites provides new data concerning local agriculture between the 2nd c. BC and the 8th c. AD (cultivated plants, prevalence of certain species, farming practices, exploited landscapes) and attempts to detect potential evolutions over time such as changes in staple crops, diversification, exploitation of new ‘terroirs’.KEYWORDS: Archaeobotanycropsfarming practicesfruit cultivationdiachronic approachsouthern France AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 852573). This research could not have been carried out without the work carried out over many years by various institutions, companies and colleagues working in Roussillon, in particular the Departmental Archaeological Service of Pyrénées-Orientales, Inrap, Acter, as well as the many archaeologists whose investment was essential to constitute the archaeobotanical corpus. We would also like to thank I. Figueiral (Inrap) for reviewing the quality of our written English.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Website : https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Home.php2 Late Antique Little Ice Age.3 The status of Vicia lutea is hard to assess; its seeds have been found in great quantities mixed with Vicia sativa seeds. It might have been cultivated for fodder or be present in the sample as a (tolerated/favored?) weed of Vicia sativa.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by European Research Council: [Grant Number 852573].Notes on contributorsRos JérômeRos Jérôme is a CNRS researcher (ISEM), archaeobotanist, and his work aims at documenting the evolution and dynamics of western Mediterranean agriculture and forestry, in relation to the social, economic and climatic changes that took place during historical periods.Angèle JeantyAngèle Jeanty is a PhD Candidate (ISEM), and her work focuses on the evolution of barle","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"13 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135589622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating Non-destructive Analysis and Sampling Methods for Identifying Plant and Animal Imprints in Late Pre-contact Wattle and Daub Rubble from the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi","authors":"William D. Harris","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2271253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2271253","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPast analyses of burned wattle and daub rubble from Native American house excavations have shown that plant and animal-related imprints sometimes occur in daub fragments. This paper evaluates the use of non-destructive analysis and sampling methods from a region-wide assemblage of burned daub recovered from a group of Pre-Contact Mississippian Period village and settlement sites in the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi, U.S.A. The quality and occurrence of imprints from this assemblage will be assessed, and how they may be considered in both future paleoenvironmental research and curation practices.KEYWORDS: Mississippian periodwattle and daubpaleoenvironmental analysissampling methodsSoutheastern archaeologyYazoo Basin AcknowledgementsThis paper was made possible by the suggestions and work of Dr. Evan Peacock, who spearheaded much of the early research into daub. The author also wanted to thank John Connaway for his work excavating the bulk of these artefacts, and for his significant early contributions to this subject. Drs. Andrew Ezell and David Evans, both of Mississippi State University, were instrumental in helping to identify some of the arboreal species observed in the daub, and I am deeply grateful for their assistance. The author wants to also thank the institutions and repositories that allowed him to conduct this research using their collections.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).DedicationThis paper is dedicated to the memory of Mary Evelyn Starr, who was a pioneer of this very subject, a tireless archaeologist and a true scholar of the Mississippi Delta.PermissionsThe author has full ownership of figures and data used in this paper.Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam D. HarrisWilliam D. Harris received a Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology from Mississippi State University in 2020 He specializes in Southeastern U.S. and Great Plains archaeology and studies seriation and artifact analysis methods.","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"21 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain)","authors":"Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, Fernando Muñiz Guinea, Francisco Ruiz Muñoz, Maria Luz González-Regalado, Juan Manuel Vargas Jímenez, Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Teodosio Donaire Romero, Joaquin Rodríguez-Vidal, Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2273102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2273102","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn the Mio-Pliocene calcareous sandstone slabs used as capstones at La Pastora tholos in the Copper Age megasite of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (SW Spain), marine bioerosion structures produced in the 3rd millennium BCE were recognised. In this work, we focus on the perforations made by the lithophage bivalve Petricola lithophaga, called Gastrochaenolites, specifically on its functionality as a ‘trap’ of sediment of the environment where they were produced and of which there are no observable outcrops. The microfaunal content consisting of planktonic and benthic foraminifera as well as ostracods was studied. It was possible to infer the palaeoenvironmental conditions of the place where the slabs were quarried, c. 4700–4600 years ago, which correspond to a wide marine bay. The presence of benthic foraminifera like Astrononium stelligerum, Elphidum crispum, Ammonia beccarii and ostracods like Loxoconcha elliptica and Cytherois fischeri implies that the sector of the bay had a water temperature of no more than 20°C, a bathymetry between 0 and 25 m of depth. Also, episodes of fluvial influence caused a variation in water salinity between 30 and 35‰, attested by the presence of euryhaline species of ostracods from low energy environments and clay substrates, thus confirming estuarine conditions.KEYWORDS: GastrochaenolitespalaeoenvironmentforaminiferaLa Pastora tholosbioerosion AcknowledgementsSpecial mention is made to Dr. Kamal Bradeshany of Durham University for his invaluable help and supervision in the materials laboratory of the Archaeology Department. The authors thank Salvador Ciaurriz and Francisco Sánchez Díaz for the illustrations.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data Availability StatementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSamuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-GalindoSamuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo is a PhD student at the University of Sevilla. His thesis is about Geoarchaeology focusing on prehistoric sites. he try to study archaeological sites from the point of view of geology. he did him Geology degree at the University of Huelva and then my Archaeology masters in the University of Sevilla.Fernando Muñiz GuineaFernando Muñiz Guinea is a lecturer in Geology at the University of Sevilla (Spain). his current research centres in Ichnology, Taphonomy and Invertebrate paleontology.Francisco Ruiz MuñozFrancisco Ruiz Muñoz is a Full Professor in Paleontology at the University of Huelva (Spain). His current research focuses on Tsunami, Environment, Heavy Metal Pollution and Ostracoda.Maria Luz González-RegaladoMaría Luz González-Regalado is a professor in Paleontology at the University of Huelva (Spain). He is currently work at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Huelva. He do research in Paleontology. Their current project ","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"208 5-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135371160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC","authors":"Céline Zaugg, Martin A. Guggisberg, Werner Vach, Matthew J. Cooper, Claudia Gerling","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2260622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2260622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Bit the Ancient Egyptians? Niche Modelling to Identify the Snakes Described in the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus","authors":"Elysha McBride, Isabelle C. Winder, Wolfgang Wüster","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2266631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2266631","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Brooklyn Papyrus is a medical treatise from Ancient Egypt (∼660–330 BCE) focusing on snakebite. Herpetologists have proposed identifications for many of the animals it describes, but some remain uncertain partly because the species no longer live in Egypt. This paper uses niche modelling to predict the palaeodistributions of ten of these snake species, to test some proposed identifications. Occurrence records and environmental variables were used to generate maximum entropy models for each species in the present day and the mid-Holocene (∼4,000 BCE). Our models performed very well, generating AUC scores ≥0.867 and successfully predicting species’ current ranges. Nine species’ predicted palaeodistributions included areas within Ancient Egypt, and four (Bitis arietans, Dolichophis jugularis, Macrovipera lebetina and Daboia mauritanica) were within modern Egypt. Daboia palaestinae was also predicted to occupy a patch of suitable habitat inside modern Egypt, but separate from the species’ core range. The tenth species, Causus rhombeatus, would have been present in kingdoms that were the Ancient Egyptians’ regular trading partners. We therefore conclude that all ten species modelled in this study could have bitten Ancient Egyptian people. Our study demonstrates the usefulness of niche modelling in informing debates about the species ancient cultures may have interacted with.KEYWORDS: Ancient EgyptsnakesBrooklyn PapyrusMaxENTniche modellingpalaeodistributions AcknowledgementsWe thank Gonzalo Sanchez, Nick Casewell, Tomáš Mazuch, Gordon W. Schuett, Stephen Spawls and David A. Warrell for many enlightening discussions about snake distributions and possible candidate species to match the descriptions in the Brooklyn Papyrus. We received no funding for this research.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsElysha McBrideElysha McBride is a MZool graduate of Bangor University in Zoology with Animal Behaviour. Her main interests are in animal behaviour and ethnozoology.Isabelle C. WinderIsabelle C. Winder is a Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Bangor University interested in evolutionary anthropology and primatology. Her research explores how human evolution has been shaped by interactions with the environment and other organisms.Wolfgang WüsterWolfgang Wüster is a Professor in Zoology at Bangor University interested in herpetology and toxinology. His main research interests are the selective drivers of snake venom evolution, systematics, biogeography, conservation and addressing the public health issues caused by venomous snakebites.","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135253282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animal Indoor Penning in the Eastern Pyrenees: The Case-study of Late Iron Age Tossal de Baltarga, Cerdanya","authors":"Marta Portillo, Joaquim Sisa-López de Pablo, Joan Oller, Jordi Morera, Oriol Olesti","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2253072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2253072","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTOver the last decades, micro-archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches have demonstrated the importance of animal dung deposits for reconstructing past human lifeways, primarily within caves and rock-shelters. The case study of Tossal de Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees) provides evidence from simultaneous storage and penning, along with the in situ remains in anatomical connection of several ovicaprines and a horse within a building destroyed by fire, dating to the second half of the third century BC. The current study provides new evidence for animal management and organisation of space at the site through examination in micromorphological thin-section and integrated phytolith and dung spherulite analyses. Micromorphological results reveal spatial variations in dung accumulation, possibly related to differences in the use of space. Phytolith records further provide insights into herbivorous regimes, dominated by a range of grass matter suggested to derive from fodder and/or grazing through the penning lifetime. This integrated approach contributes to the understanding of depositional pathways and taphonomy of penning deposits within built environments, critical for the reconstruction of activity areas and practices related to animal management, foddering/grazing patterns, site formation processes, concepts of space within the settlement, health and the complexity of interactions between people and animals in mountain areas.KEYWORDS: Iron ageEastern Pyreneeslivestock penningmicromorphologyphytolithsdung spherulites AcknowledgementsThis research has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-122879OB-I00), and the Generalitat de Catalunya, ARQ001SOL-109-2022 (437 CU00050, PATCA-3).Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Generalitat de Catalunya: [Grant Number ARQ001SOL-109-2022 (437 CU00050, PATCA-3)]; Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR): [Grant Number 2021SGR 501]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: [Grant Number PID2021-122879OB-I00].Notes on contributorsMarta PortilloDr Marta Portillo is a tenured scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (IMF-CSIC) specialised in phytoliths and calcitic microfossils in integration with geoarchaeological methods, as well as with experimental and ethnoarchaeological approaches. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions and cultural, economic and technological innovations in the Western Mediterranean and the Near East. She served on the board of the International Phytolith Society (IPS). She is the coordinator of the Archaeology of Social Dynamics Research Group at the IMF-CSIC (2021SGR 501).Joaquim Sisa-López de PabloDr Joaquim Sisa-López de Pablo received his Ph.D. at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is a geoarchaeologist specialised in soil micromorphology. His research focuses on the study of","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring Dietary Differentiation in the Roman Province of Macedonia: Isotopic Evidence from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Nea Kerdylia-Strovolos","authors":"Chryssa Vergidou, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Penelope Malama, Konstantinos Darakis, Michael W. Dee, Sofia Voutsaki, E. Nikita, Petra Vaiglova","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2248774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2248774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47310485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Phytolith, Geochemical and Ethnographic Analysis to Inform on Site Construction and Activities in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia: Case Studies from Wadi Faynan 16 and ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan","authors":"S. Allcock, S. Elliott, E. Jenkins, C. Palmer, G. Rollefson, J. Grattan, B. Finlayson","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2243114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2243114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43681192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking at Phytoliths in Archaeological Soil and Sediment Thin Sections","authors":"Y. Devos, L. Vrydaghs","doi":"10.1080/14614103.2023.2234155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2234155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48745,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Archaeology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43366098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}