Plants in the everyday diet of the Early Bronze Age I settlement at Arslantepe, Turkey.
Апстракт
Through the investigation of plant macro-remains recovered from different contexts connected to storage, plant processing and consumption, the diet of prehistoric communities can be meticulously investigated. The numerous charred remains recovered from such contexts from the Early Bronze Age I settlement of Arslantepe (3000-2800 cal. BCE) give strong evidence pointing to a subsistence pattern greatly relying on agriculture. The biggest share of the plant component in the diet of Arslantepe's inhabitants goes to cereals of which the most dominant is barley, followed by emmer and einkorn. Less numerous but still greatly present in the archaeobotanical assemblage are legumes, represented by peas, chickpeas, and vetches. Apart from many cultivated plants, some wild species were also collected and consumed at the settlement. Most of them belong to the rose family. In Arslantepe all the crops were thoroughly cleaned before storing which means that there was no need for conducting such activi...ties on a daily basis before food preparation. For preparing meals they used grinding stones, mortars and pots, and for thermal processing, they used open hearths and ovens. Due to circumstances that created favorable conditions for the preservation of plant remains, a fire seizing the entire village, a lot of information was retained, giving invaluable data about the diet and the day-to-day activities of the Early Bronze Age communities in the Near East.
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prehistory / diet / near east / archaeobotanyИзвор:
26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 2020Издавач:
- EAA
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Arheologija / ArchaeologyTY - CONF AU - Sabanov, Amalia PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6026 AB - Through the investigation of plant macro-remains recovered from different contexts connected to storage, plant processing and consumption, the diet of prehistoric communities can be meticulously investigated. The numerous charred remains recovered from such contexts from the Early Bronze Age I settlement of Arslantepe (3000-2800 cal. BCE) give strong evidence pointing to a subsistence pattern greatly relying on agriculture. The biggest share of the plant component in the diet of Arslantepe's inhabitants goes to cereals of which the most dominant is barley, followed by emmer and einkorn. Less numerous but still greatly present in the archaeobotanical assemblage are legumes, represented by peas, chickpeas, and vetches. Apart from many cultivated plants, some wild species were also collected and consumed at the settlement. Most of them belong to the rose family. In Arslantepe all the crops were thoroughly cleaned before storing which means that there was no need for conducting such activities on a daily basis before food preparation. For preparing meals they used grinding stones, mortars and pots, and for thermal processing, they used open hearths and ovens. Due to circumstances that created favorable conditions for the preservation of plant remains, a fire seizing the entire village, a lot of information was retained, giving invaluable data about the diet and the day-to-day activities of the Early Bronze Age communities in the Near East. PB - EAA C3 - 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting T1 - Plants in the everyday diet of the Early Bronze Age I settlement at Arslantepe, Turkey. UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6026 ER -
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Sabanov, A.. (2020). Plants in the everyday diet of the Early Bronze Age I settlement at Arslantepe, Turkey.. in 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting EAA.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6026
Sabanov A. Plants in the everyday diet of the Early Bronze Age I settlement at Arslantepe, Turkey.. in 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting. 2020;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6026 .
Sabanov, Amalia, "Plants in the everyday diet of the Early Bronze Age I settlement at Arslantepe, Turkey." in 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting (2020), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6026 .