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This volume contains the final publication of the archaeobotanical
remains recovered from four sites at the village of Asvan in
eastern Turkey, which were excavated between 1968 and 1973 as part
of the archaeological rescue project in the Keban Dam region. An
extensive programme of archaeobotanical research involved detailed
study of the modern flora, the observation and recording of
pre-mechanised agricultural practices and large-scale recovery of
ancient botanical samples by water sieving. The report traces the
evolution of cultivation in the region from the Chalcolithic to the
Medieval period, charting the dominance of emmer and hulled barley
in the Chalcolithic period, the emergence of free-threshing wheats
in the Early Bronze Age and the introduction of irrigated summer
crops, especially millet, by the Hellenistic period. Detailed
attention is also given to the assemblage of weed seeds as proxy
evidence for environmental conditions and climate change from
around 4000 BC to the present day.
The post-palatial period - Late Helladic IIIC - is often seen as
the twilight years of Mycenean civilisation, a period of economic
decline with few achievements in terms of architecture, materials
or technology. Excavation in the Citadel House area at Mycenae
afforded unique opportunities to explore stratified remains of this
period and to define and describe its character. In this fascicule,
Dr. Elizabeth French presents her full report on the remains of
this period, which, sheltered within the massive 13th century BC
walls, allow us to chart something of Mycenae's history in the
final years of the Bronze Age. This fascicule also contains a
unique account of LH IIIC pottery, stratum by stratum,
incorporating a major study by Dr. Susan Sherratt, together with a
wealth of illustration of pottery vessels. The account of the other
objects of terracotta, metal, ivory, stone and bone helps us to
better understand the cultural materials of the post-palatial
period, while Gordon Hillman's account of the plant remains from
the "Granary" is a significant addition to the palaeo-botanical
record for the Mycenean period as a whole and one of very few for
the LH IIIC period. This book, which includes a DVD containing all
the data from previous fascicules and an interactive index, will be
an essential reference tool for the study of the period.
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Wild Food (Paperback)
Ray Mears, Gordon Hillman
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R542
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Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people
manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always
frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves
and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were
hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate
day to day. How did they find their calories, week in week out
throughout the year? What were their staple foods? Where did they
get their vitamins? How did they ensure their bodies received
enough variety? In this book he travels back ten thousand years to
a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared
and cooked their food. This extraordinary journey reveals many new
possibilities many of the same food sources are still there for us
if only we know where to look. Through Ray Mears' knowledge of the
countryside and the research conducted specially for this book with
archaeo-botanist Gordon Hillman, we learn many new, useful and
often surprising things about the amazingly rich natural larder
that still surrounds us.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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