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 …

New trajectories or accelerating change? Zooarchaeological evidence for Roman transformation of animal husbandry in Northern Italy

A Trentacoste, A Nieto-Espinet, S Guimarães… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
Throughout the Western provinces of the Roman Empire, greater economic and political
connectivity had a major impact on agricultural production, which grew in scale and …

The role of emerging elites in the formation and development of communities after the fall of the Roman Empire

Y Tian, I Koncz, S Defant, C Giostra, DN Vyas… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Elites played a pivotal role in the formation of post-Roman Europe on both macro-and
microlevels during the Early Medieval period. History and archaeology have long focused …

Multiproxy approach to the study of Medieval food habits in Tuscany (central Italy)

MP Buonincontri, A Pecci, G Di Pasquale… - Archaeological and …, 2017 - Springer
A multiproxy approach based on archaeobotanical, organic residue and isotopic analyses
was carried out on materials from 12 Medieval archaeological sites in Tuscany (central Italy) …

Direct evidence from lipid residue analysis for the routine consumption of millet in Early Medieval Italy

G Ganzarolli, M Alexander, AC Arnau… - Journal of archaeological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Millets have been cultivated in Europe since the Late Neolithic but, beyond recording their
presence, little is known about their use and context of consumption. As a C 4 plant, the …

Introduction, spread and selective breeding of crops: new archaeobotanical data from southern Italy in the early Middle Ages

G Fiorentino, AM Grasso, M Primavera - Vegetation History and …, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a summary of the record of the cultivated plant macroremains from
southern Italy during the early Middle Ages, with a focus on the recent discoveries of crop …

Los estudios carpológicos en la Península Ibérica: un estado de la cuestión

L Peña-Chocarro, G Pérez-Jordà - Pyrenae, 2018 - raco.cat
En este trabajo se analiza el desarrollo de los estudios arqueobotánicos (semillas y frutos)
en laPenínsula Ibérica desde los inicios de la disciplina en los años sesenta hasta el …

Agrarian archaeology in early medieval Europe

JAQ Castillo - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades, the archaeological study of agrarian and animal husbandry
activities of historical societies has seen an impressive development as a result of the …

The transition of chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) from timber to fruit tree: Cultural and economic inferences in the Italian peninsula

MP Buonincontri, A Saracino… - The Holocene, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthracological analysis has been carried out in the Medieval site of Miranduolo, a rural
settlement in southern Tuscany with a sequence of occupation between the 7th and 14th …