Beyond their nutritional values, plants have played a central role for the production of artefacts in prehistoric societies. Specific plants and their anatomical parts may have been selectively used for the production of baskets and wooden containers, among others, which in turn could have been ...
In Europe, birch bark tar is considered as a universal adhesive during prehistory but archaeological data is scarce and scattered. Assessing the role of adhesive substances in prehistoric technology requires cross-institutional training and access to samples from different archaeological contexts ...
Animal hard tissues were highly valuable resources in prehistoric technology. Spears, points and beads made of bone, ivory and antler, for example, are usually recovered in archaeological deposits associated with a range of activities, from dietary to ideological contexts. It is not clear whether ...
Archaeobotanical analysis is well established in archaeological scientific research and has been applied to a range of prehistoric hearths. In comparison, chemical and molecular analysis of hearths is far less established, with doubts regarding the preservation, origin of organic molecules and ...
This project will unite the artefactual and biological evidence for prehistoric wine consumption. You will examine DNA present in wine vessels and archaeobotanical remains that have been recovered from archaeological sites and test the assumption that grape domestication is associated with ...
