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Botany meets archaeology: people and plants in the past

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Jo Day

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of experimental botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.616

H-Index - 242

eISSN - 1460-2431

pISSN - 0022-0957

DOI - 10.1093/jxb/ert068

Subject(s) - prestige , archaeology , focus (optics) , key (lock) , botany , geography , history , biology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics

This paper explores the close links between botany and archaeology, using case studies from the ancient Mediterranean. It explains the kinds of palaeobotanical remains that archaeologists can recover and the methods used to analyse them. The importance of iconographic and textual evidence is also underlined. Examples of key research areas that focus on ancient plants are discussed: diet and palaeoeconomy; medicines, poisons, and psychotropics; perfumes, cosmetics, and dyes; and prestige.

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