A palaeoethnobotanical study of the West House, Akrotiri, Thera
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This paper summarizes some results of palaeoethnobotanical study at Akrotiri, Thera, and evaluates the importance of studying plant remains at such a site. (As this is the first stage of a long programme, it does not pretend to be exhaustive.) The data from the West House provides the most detailed and complete information from Bronze Age Greece concerning bioarchaeological remains, because it comes from a single architectural unit (a completely excavated house). The results offer evidence for the crops grown, weeds of cultivation (segetal), and ruderal plants, as well as crop processing and storage. The data is important for its high taphonomic potential, thanks to the high degree of preservation of charred, mineralized, and silicified plant remains.
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Short-lived sample material from Akrotiri likely offers dates within ~0-2 years of the find context, and other short to shorter-lived sample material will not include more than a few years of in-built age.
“In view of what is known of traditional and ancient agricultural practices and storage at Akrotiri [125, 141, 142], the short-lived sample material likely offers dates within ~0-2 years of the find context and other short to shorter-lived sample material (animal bones from likely use as food, twigs, branches and outermost tree-rings) will not include more than a few years of in-built age.”
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“…that these samples represent the most recent harvest, or perhaps the previous one, and probably not much longer (e.g. 0 – 2 years window, excepting any possible residual material) and thus offer a date very close to this abandonment episode (Sarpaki 1992; Panagiotakopulu et al. 2013; Manning 2022).”
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- Authors
- Sarpaki, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Crete (GR)
- Corresponding author
- Sarpaki, Anaya
- ORCID
- Sarpaki, Anaya
- Venue
- The Annual of the British School at Athens
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1992-11
- Volume
- 87
- Pages
- 219-230
- ISSN
- 0068-2454 (ISSN-L)
- 2045-2403
- OpenAlex
- W2313431645
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Annual of the British School at Athens (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Keywords
- archaeobotany, Akrotiri, Santorini, Minoan Bronze Age, plant remains, crop cultivation, segetal weeds, ruderal vegetation, taphonomy, charred plant remains, bioarchaeology, household archaeology
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