EAA2021: Session #246

10 Sep 09:00 - 18:00

Title & Content

Title:
IMPR – Phytoliths in Integrated Archaeobotanical and Ethnoarchaeological Studies
Content:
The session “Phytoliths in integrated archaeobotanical and ethnoarchaeological studies” is dedicated to the wide range of applications of phytoliths in archaeology, paleoanthropology and palaeoethnobotany. The identification of plant remains at an archaeological site can be indicative of the resources and environments exploited by peoples, their subsistence strategy and further economic and cultural practices. Research questions that can be addressed concern agronomy, economy and diet in the past, i.e. how phytoliths can be used to reconstruct the cultivation, processing and use of plants for food and animal fodder. In addition, phytoliths can help to disentangle plant uses for non-food purposes as well. In this case, information can be gained about, for instance, architecture, medicinal uses, textiles and other aspects of domestic, economic and ritual spheres.
In this session, studies of modern ethnographic contexts are also welcome, that offer insights into traditional plant uses and that can be used to calibrate the interpretation of the phytolith fossil assemblage from comparable archaeological contexts. Through this comparison, deposition processes, traditions and cultural choices behind human behaviour in the past can be better identified and understood. Presentations can focus on the investigation of phytoliths from specific objects or from different contexts from one or multiple sites. Contributions that show a comparison of the phytolith record with other kinds of archaeobotanical records (macro-remains, wood/charcoal, starch, pollen and NPPs, plant biomarkers), as well as with other proxies (stable isotopes of osteological records or seeds, faunal assemblages, etc.) are particularly welcome. Case studies and reviews may concern different periods and geographical regions.
This session is part of the 12th International Meeting for Phytolith Research, or IMPR, the official scientific conference of the International Phytolith Society.
Keywords:
phytoliths, crop-processing, fodder, non-food plant uses, ethnobotany, ethnoarchaeology
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organisers

Main organisers:
Marta Dal Corso1
Co-organiser:
Welmoed Out2
Affiliations:
1 Kiel University
2 Moesgaard Museum

Abstracts

These abstracts are part of this session:
Traces of Life: Integrating phytolith and ethnoarchaeological analysis in Levantine sites
The use of phytoliths analysis for the interpretation of the content of pottery: an exploratory study of african ethnographic samples
The potter, between specialised production and routine activities? Multidisciplinary study of a Copper Age kiln
Using phytoliths to reconstruct archaeological storage pit function in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia (Turkey)
Plant Ways in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia – An Archaeological Interpretation of Phytoliths and Plant Remains at Zincirli Höyük, Turkey
Identifying the water regime and its association with crop hierarchies during1850-1750 cal BC in the Xinzhai site, China
Phtytoliths, seeds and wooden crafts: the study of Japanese colonialism in northern Taiwan (Heping Dao, Keelung)
Phytoliths, Starch Grains and Andean Crops: the input of their diversity from America to Archaeobotanical research
Sondondo´s agriculture as reflected in phytoliths. Use of soil Analysis to understand social development in prehispanic terraces in Peru
Dark Earths plant management and the regional development of Tapajo culture in the Lower Amazon
4000 years of resilient pastoralism: the phytolith assemblage from a multiperiod habitation site in northwestern Mongolia
Reconstructing Bronze Age agro-pastoral practice in the Mesopotamian-Zagros foothills: phytolith and FTIR analysis of dung-rich sediments from Khani Masi (Iraq)
Bedding layers from Border Cave, South Africa: a phytolith and FTIR investigation
Taphonomy, environment or human plant exploitation strategies? Deciphering changes in Pleistocene-Holocene plant representation at Uhmlatuzana Rock Shelter, South Africa
Towards a model of a mammalian interface with the phytoliths in their natural environment: insights from Taï chimpanzee faecal phytoliths
Investigating dietary changes at Tell Kamid el-Loz, between the 2nd-1st millennia B.C.E using plant microremains recovered from dental calculus
A glimpse into shellmound builders diet during mid-to-late Holocene on Marajo Island
Phytoliths, Pollen, and Paleoecology at a Middle Woodland Site in the American Southeast
Further evidence for seasonal transhumance of Yamnaya communities during the Late Copper – Early Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin
Grinding plants for food at the Early Bronze Age site of Agios Athanasios: a multiproxy approach
Understanding crop processing models and their social meanings during the Xinzhai period (1850-1750 cal BC)
BEFORE AND AFTER OF THE HUDSON VOLCANO ERUPTION: PALEOECOLOGICAL APPROACH BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF CAMELID COPROLITES
PREDATOR-PREY RELATIONSHIPS INFERRED BY COPROLITE PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FROM ARGENTINE PATAGONIA