Palaeoenvironment and land use of Roman peasant farmhouses in southern Tuscany
Autor: | E. Vaccaro, Kim Bowes, Anna Maria Mercuri, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Rossella Rinaldi, Michael MacKinnon, Cam Grey, Eleonora Rattighieri, Mariaelena Ghisleni |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Plant Science
medicine.disease_cause Pasture Roman Fodder Pollen Grazing medicine Archaeology archaeo-botany pasture agrarian landscape Roman Coprophilous fungi Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Land use Agroforestry Ecology business.industry agrarian landscape biology.organism_classification archaeo-botany Peasant pasture Archaeology Agriculture business |
DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.1292892.v2 |
Popis: | Archaeo-environmental data were obtained from five small rural sites excavated as part of the Roman Peasant Project in southern Tuscany. Archaeo-botanical and archaeological data point to a moment of intensive land use in the late Republican/Early Imperial date and to possible use of convertible agriculture strategies. The diversity of pasture-grazing plant species, the presence of coprophilous fungi, parasite eggs and the high values of pasture indicator pollen suggest that lands devoted to browsing animals covered an important part of the territory all around and in the vicinity of sites. The significant presence of cereals, with occasional presence of vines and olives, attests to the importance of grain agriculture in the same spaces. These data may be read as residues of convertible agricultural strategies in which pasture, including cultivated fodder, alternated with legumes and cereals. Read together, the data thus point to a major moment of intensified use and management of the land. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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