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1 June 2005 Identifying Prehistoric Collected Wild Plants: A Case Study from Late Bronze Age Settlements in the French Alps (Grésine, Bourget Lake, Savoie)
Laurent Bouby, Yves Billaud
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The late Bronze Age lakeshore settlements of Grésine (French Alps) have yielded archaeobotanical evidence of 14 cultivated and 153 wild plants. Some of the wild taxa may have been collected, but many are probably here by chance. Three criteria are used as evidence for human transport and manipulation of wild plant remains: number of items, fragmentation, and carbonization. Relations between these criteria and known ethnobotanical properties of the identified plants are statistically analyzed. Results display good evidence of the gathering of edible wild fruits and seeds. Other gathering practices are not documented. Edible fruits and seeds seem to have been gathered mainly from ruderal spring weed communities and, possibly, from forest clearances and hedge communities. Fragmentation appears to be less of a discriminating factor than number of plant remains and carbonization.

Laurent Bouby and Yves Billaud "Identifying Prehistoric Collected Wild Plants: A Case Study from Late Bronze Age Settlements in the French Alps (Grésine, Bourget Lake, Savoie)," Economic Botany 59(3), 255-267, (1 June 2005). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0255:IPCWPA]2.0.CO;2
Received: 5 December 2003; Accepted: 1 May 2005; Published: 1 June 2005
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KEYWORDS
archaeobotany
France
identification of ancient gathering
late Bronze Age
Wild edible plants
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