Session: #1090

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The broad topic of the session is The Life of Archaeological Heritage in Society. The specific topic is the valorization of the Archaeobotanical Heritage (macro- and micro-remains) as one of the essential witnesses of the daily human activities in the past; from the wooden shipwrecks of several meters long to the phytoliths collection, archaeobotany offers a wide variety of materials and opportunities to show how humans in the past used plants for any kind of purpose. Unfortunately, even today, little interest is placed in this type of material, especially in its use for didactical, outreach and educational values in museums, universities and elsewhere. Moreover, there are very few communications about plants remains in the scientific media. We would like to invite scholars who work with archaeobotanical remains (from charred to waterlogged wood, from carpological remains to microremains) and who are involved in the valorization of archaeobotanical collections and their use for educational purposes. We would like to emphasize the difficulties associated with the classification, preservation, and valorization of archaeobotanical material and collections, also but not only the historical ones (for example, the collection from the Vesuvian area, see the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum, Italy, or the collections of the Museum of the University of Tübingen, Germany, or the Museum of Vojvodina, Serbia), as well as the methods employed to make them usable and enjoyable for everyone. We encourage archaeologists and archaeobotanists with virtuous experiences in physical or digital exhibitions, educational activities for children and adults, didactical practices for university students, any kind of valorization project that allowed the archaeobotanical heritage to be well preserved and shared with the scientific community and the wide public as well.

Session: #1090

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