Plant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environment in which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a wide range of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown? What was used for fuel? Do any of the plants come from distant lands? Examples from fourth and...

North Macedonia is a crucial region for understanding the spread of agriculture into Mediterranean and Central Europe. To date, however, area has been subject to relatively limited archaeological research. Here, authors present use-wear archaeobotanical analyses on material from two Neolithic sites, Govrelevo Vrbjanska Čuka, investigate practices that were previously unstudied in this part Balk...

Abstract This paper presents the results from archaeobotanical remains collected ten medieval settlements and fort sites in region of present-day Slavonia, Croatia. From 12th century ad , Slavonia was part Kingdom Hungary, although benefited a certain amount autonomy. Examining data this period shows diverse agricultural system, where crop fields, gardens, orchards, pastures woodlands were all ...

Palynological and archaeobotanical analyses have been carried out as part of the interdisciplinary project Colombare di Negrar, a prehistoric site in Lessini Mountains (northern Italy). The palaeoenvironmental economic reconstruction from Late Neolithic to beginning Early Bronze Age was based on 16 pollen samples three macroremains taken two contiguous trenches. landscape shows presence natural...