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Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Paperback)
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Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Paperback)
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There is a growing recognition within Anglo-Saxon archaeology that
farming practices underwent momentous transformations in the Mid
Saxon period, between the seventh and ninth centuries AD:
transformations which underpinned the growth of the Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms and, arguably, set the trajectory for English agricultural
development for centuries to come. Meanwhile, in the field of
archaeobotany, a growing set of quantitative methods has been
developed to facilitate the systematic investigation of
agricultural change through the study of charred plant remains.
This study applies a standardised set of repeatable quantitative
analyses to the charred remains of Anglo-Saxon crops and weeds, to
shed light on crucial developments in crop husbandry between the
seventh and ninth centuries. The analyses demonstrate the
significance of the Anglo-Saxon archaeobotanical record in
elucidating how greater crop surpluses were attained through
ecologically-sensitive diversification and specialisation
strategies in this period. At the same time, assumptions, variables
and key parameters are presented fully and explicitly to facilitate
repetition of the work, thus also enabling the book to be used as a
source of comparative data and a methodological handbook for
similar research in other periods and places. It constitutes a
specialist, data-driven companion volume to the author’s more
general narrative account published as ‘Farming Transformed in
Anglo-Saxon England’ (Windgather, 2018).
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