Archaeobotanical studies are currently being carried out on all the plant remains retrieved from the high alpine site where the Iceman ‘‘Ötzi’’ was found (3,210 m a.s.l.). Preliminary results already show a great diversity of species (121 taxa) mainly originating from lower regions, which must have been transported to the Tisenjoch site by a number of vectors. Spatial modelling has been carried...

This paper describes an ongoing work on the construction of a SKOS thesaurus to support multi-disciplinary studies on the transmission of zoological knowledge throughout historical periods, combining the analysis of ancient literature, iconographic and archaeozoological resources. We first describe the I2AF, a national archaeozoological and archaeobotanical inventory database integrating data f...

Six flotation samples from the cut face of the tell were extracted and examined for this report. The goal of this exploratory analysis is to determine whether there are any observable differences between the Tell Jouweif (SS 8) assemblage and those of nearby Early Bronze Age Tell es-Sweyhat or the other roughly contemporary sites farther downstream (Selenkahiye [T 507, EBA] and Tell Hadidi [T 5...

This paper discusses archaeobotanical remains of naked barley recovered from the Okhotsk cultural layers of the Hamanaka 2 archaeological site on Rebun Island, northern Japan. Calibrated ages (68% confidence interval) of the directly dated barley remains suggest that the crop was used at the site ca. 440-890 cal yr AD. Together with the finds from the Oumu site (north-eastern Hokkaido Island), ...

In preparation for a 2010 Society for American Archaeology Forum organized by Christine Hastorf, “Quantification and Presentation: Effective Means of Presenting Plant Evidence in Archaeology,” I devised a questionnaire about archaeobotany methodology. In the autumn of 2009, I posted a link to the survey on “www.surveymonkey.com.” I alerted archaeobotanists through the Archaeobotany listserv (ww...

Tell Khamîs, an archaeological site of the Syrian region Upper Jazeera, is 3 km east Euphrates and 31 from Yarâblûs (ancient Karkemiš); excavations determined seven different levels (Early Bronze, Middle Aramaic, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Islamic). This study aims to identify plant remains recovered during excavation place them within chronology Khamîs in context archaeobotanical evidence...