Roman and medieval crops in the Iberian Peninsula: a first overview of seeds and fruits from archaeological sites

L Peña-Chocarro, G Pérez-Jordà, N Alonso… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of the current state of research on Roman, Late Antique
and medieval agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula through the study of archaeobotanical …

Plants from distant places: the 1st millennium ce archaeobotanical record from Iberia

L Peña-Chocarro, G Pérez-Jordà - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2023 - Springer
The 1st millennium ce in the Iberian peninsula was characterized by a continuous exchange
of people, goods, food, technology, etc. which led to the transformation of agriculture and the …

Diet, society, and economy in late medieval S pain: Stable isotope evidence from Muslims and Christians from G andía, V alencia

MM Alexander, CM Gerrard… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the diets of neighboring Christians and Muslims in late medieval
Spain (here 13th–16th centuries) through the analysis of the stable isotopes of carbon …

The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material

R Dal Martello, M von Baeyer, M Hudson, RG Bjorn… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops,
cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species …

Chemical evidence for the persistence of wine production and trade in Early Medieval Islamic Sicily

L Drieu, P Orecchioni, C Capelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Although wine was unquestionably one of the most important commodities traded in the
Mediterranean during the Roman Empire, less is known about wine commerce after its fall …

Archaeobotanical research in classical archaeology

L Lodwick, E Rowan - American Journal of Archaeology, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The recovery, identification, and analysis of archaeobotanical remains can help address a
wide range of archaeological and historical research questions, from foodways, to the …

Roman food refuse: urban archaeobotany in Pompeii, Regio VI, Insula 1

C Murphy, G Thompson, DQ Fuller - Vegetation History and …, 2013 - Springer
Although world-renowned as an archaeological site, there have been few research projects
in Pompeii looking at the spatial and chronological patterning of plant food use from an …

Faecal biomarker and archaeobotanical analyses of sediments from a public latrine shed new light on ruralisation in Sagalassos, Turkey

J Baeten, E Marinova, V De Laet, P Degryse… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
A public latrine in the 'Imperial Baths' of Sagalassos was transformed into a dump site in the
early Byzantine period. Several layers of urban waste, including ceramics, bones, glass and …

Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit

C Moricca, L Nigro, L Masci, S Pasta… - Vegetation History and …, 2021 - Springer
The present study concerns the Phoenician-Punic site of Motya, a small island set in
Western Sicily (Italy), in the Marsala Lagoon (Stagnone di Marsala), between Trapani and …

Pyre wood fuel and food remains in a necropolis of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberian Peninsula): The case of Sant Antoni Market site (1st century CE)

S Bianco, M Tarongi, E Allué, L Picornell-Gelabert… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Funerary cremations in Roman times were important rites of passage that involved the use
of fire to accompany the dead into the afterlife. In the present study, we investigated the …