Marijke Van Der Veen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3644364 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marijke Van Der Veen |
| NOMBRES | Marijke |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Veen |
| FIRMA | VAN DER VEEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 638 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Origins and evolution of oasis agriculture in the Sahara
Oasis agriculture has been a critical means of sustenance for humans in arid regions in North Africa and West Asia. The date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera L.) holds immense significance as one of the most vital species in these agroecosystems. It was domesticated in the Gulf region over 6000 years ago and later spread to other regions. In the Sahara, the origins of the germplasm and the diffusion history in terms of dating and routes remain largely …
All Change on the Land? Wheat and the Roman to Early Medieval Transition in England
Marijke Van Der Veen (2022) , Medieval Archaeology, 66:2, 304-342, DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2022.2129753
Fuelwood and Wood Supplies in the Eastern Desert of Egypt during Roman Times
Introduction Due to the scarcity of resources, fuel and wood supply was a major issue in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. This scarcity is caused by the hyperarid conditions that started some 6000 years ago, as indicated by paleo-climatic studies, carried out locally in the mountains of the Red Sea (Butzer 1999; Moeyersons et al. 1999) and west of the Nile (Bubenzer, Riemer 2007), as well as in the wider region (Hoelzmann et al. 2004; Kuper, Kröpelin…
The Science of Roman History
The Roman and Islamic spice trade
The materiality of plants
Plants in archaeology tend to be studied from an anthropocentric point of view, in which they are seen as passive objects (domestication, farming, deforestation, diet, trade, food and status). Here the concept of materiality is applied to view plant–people relationships from the plant's point of view, that is, to afford plants agency. It is argued that this brings into clearer focus the complex entanglements or meshworks that are created, often u…
The Archaeobotany of Medieval Britain (c ad 450–1500)
BOTANICAL DATA FROM EXCAVATIONS are one of several sources of evidence that can be brought to bear on studies of medieval agriculture, food, diet, trade and environment. Reliable reconstructions of these aspects of medieval life are dependent on the quality of the datasets currently available for study. Here these are assessed and lacunae highlighted. The focus lies on sites where macro-remains of food and agricultural products have been found (e…
Agricultural innovation
This paper was published as World Archaeology, 2010, 42 (1), pp. 1-12. It is available from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438240903429649. DOI: 10.1080/00438240903429649
New Plant Foods in Roman Britain — Dispersal and Social Access
This paper was published as Environmental Archaeology, 2008, 13 (1), pp. 11-36. © 2008 Association for Environmental Archaeology. It is available from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/env/2008/00000013/00000001/art00002. Doi: 10.1179/174963108X279193
Food as embodied material culture
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2008, 21, pp. 83-109. It appears here with the permission of the publisher. It is available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com (email: [email protected]). Copyright Journal of Roman Archaeology. Permission to reproduce any of this material in print or in digital form must be sought from the publisher
Changing foodways
Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period
A re-analysis of agricultural production and consumption
Formation processes of desiccated and carbonized plant remains – the identification of routine practice
Gardens and fields
An archaeobotanical contribution to the history of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai (syn. C. vulgaris Schrad.)
When is food a luxury
This paper explores definitions of luxury foods and considers the role of luxuries in marking social distinction. It is proposed that luxury foods are those foods that offer a refinement in texture, taste, fat content or other quality (such as stimulant or inebriant) and offer distinction, because of either their quantity or quality. Ethnographic research has revealed that an emphasis on quantity of food and elaboration of common staples is found…
Probleme Der Küstenforschung im Südlichen Nordseegebiet
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008
The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet…
The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa
The economic value of chaff and straw in arid and temperate zones
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
Environmental Factors and the Yield Potential of Ancient Wheat Crops
The plant remains from Mons Claudianus, a Roman quarry settlement in the Eastern Desert of Egypt — an interim report
Garamantian Agriculture
Excavations at Zinchecra, a hill fort settlement of the Garamantes in Fezzan, southern Libya, have recovered a rich assemblage of desiccated and carbonised plant remains. The archaeobotanical analysis of this assemblage has produced a unique insight into the state of agriculture in the Sahara during the first half of the first millennium BC. Three cereal crops and three fruit crops have been identified, as well as salad plants and aromatic herbs.…
When is food a luxury
This paper explores definitions of luxury foods and considers the role of luxuries in marking social distinction. It is proposed that luxury foods are those foods that offer a refinement in texture, taste, fat content or other quality (such as stimulant or inebriant) and offer distinction, because of either their quantity or quality. Ethnographic research has revealed that an emphasis on quantity of food and elaboration of common staples is found…
Formation processes of desiccated and carbonized plant remains – the identification of routine practice
The materiality of plants
Plants in archaeology tend to be studied from an anthropocentric point of view, in which they are seen as passive objects (domestication, farming, deforestation, diet, trade, food and status). Here the concept of materiality is applied to view plant–people relationships from the plant's point of view, that is, to afford plants agency. It is argued that this brings into clearer focus the complex entanglements or meshworks that are created, often u…
Sampling seeds
A re-analysis of agricultural production and consumption
Agricultural innovation
This paper was published as World Archaeology, 2010, 42 (1), pp. 1-12. It is available from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438240903429649. DOI: 10.1080/00438240903429649
New Plant Foods in Roman Britain — Dispersal and Social Access
This paper was published as Environmental Archaeology, 2008, 13 (1), pp. 11-36. © 2008 Association for Environmental Archaeology. It is available from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/env/2008/00000013/00000001/art00002. Doi: 10.1179/174963108X279193
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey 1980
Two seasons of work have now been conducted by British and French survey teams, in conjunction with members of the Libyan Antiquities Department, under the charge of Dr. Abdullah Shaiboub. The objectives of the survey are to locate, survey and analyse the extensive remains of the ancient agricultural settlements that can be found in the wadis of the hinterlands of Tripolitania and the Sirtica. Within the framework established by the Department in…
Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period
Gardens and fields
Charred Grain Assemblages from Roman-Period Corn Driers in Britain
This paper presents a review of the botanical evidence for the function of so-called 'corn-driers' from Roman-period Britain. The charred grain assemblages associated with corn-driers from twenty-one sites have been analysed. The results indicate that these kilns should be regarded as multi-functional structures; both the roasting of germinated grains for the production of malt and the parching/drying/ of grain in preparation for consumption and …
Food as embodied material culture
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2008, 21, pp. 83-109. It appears here with the permission of the publisher. It is available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com (email: [email protected]). Copyright Journal of Roman Archaeology. Permission to reproduce any of this material in print or in digital form must be sought from the publisher
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008
The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet…
The economic value of chaff and straw in arid and temperate zones
Garamantian Agriculture
Excavations at Zinchecra, a hill fort settlement of the Garamantes in Fezzan, southern Libya, have recovered a rich assemblage of desiccated and carbonised plant remains. The archaeobotanical analysis of this assemblage has produced a unique insight into the state of agriculture in the Sahara during the first half of the first millennium BC. Three cereal crops and three fruit crops have been identified, as well as salad plants and aromatic herbs.…
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey X
This report discusses the first results of the botanical analysis of 182 samples from seven Romano-Libyan and two Islamic sites situated in the pre-desert of Tripolitania. Nine different crop plants have been discovered: barley, wheat, peas, lentils, olives, grapes, figs, dates and almonds. The likelihood of local production versus import, and of subsistence farming versus production for a market is discussed. No significant difference was detect…
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
Environmental Factors and the Yield Potential of Ancient Wheat Crops
The plant remains from Mons Claudianus, a Roman quarry settlement in the Eastern Desert of Egypt — an interim report
The Archaeobotany of Medieval Britain (c ad 450–1500)
BOTANICAL DATA FROM EXCAVATIONS are one of several sources of evidence that can be brought to bear on studies of medieval agriculture, food, diet, trade and environment. Reliable reconstructions of these aspects of medieval life are dependent on the quality of the datasets currently available for study. Here these are assessed and lacunae highlighted. The focus lies on sites where macro-remains of food and agricultural products have been found (e…
The Science of Roman History
Probleme Der Küstenforschung im Südlichen Nordseegebiet
All Change on the Land? Wheat and the Roman to Early Medieval Transition in England
Marijke Van Der Veen (2022) , Medieval Archaeology, 66:2, 304-342, DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2022.2129753
Changing foodways
An Early Medieval Hilltop Settlement in Molise
UN INSEDIAMENTO COLLINARE ALTOMEDIEVALE IN MOLISE: I RESTI BOTANICI DA D85 In questo articolo si tratta dei resti botanici raccolti durante gli scavi di D85, un insediamento collinare altomedievale nella valle del Biferno in Molise. Sono state raccolte grandi quantità di resti botanici carbonizzati. Sono stati trovate le seguenti piante: frumento, orzo, miglio, avena, ceci, fave, lino, fichi, uva e coriandolo. I risultati vengono messi a confront…
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey 1980
Two seasons of work have now been conducted by British and French survey teams, in conjunction with members of the Libyan Antiquities Department, under the charge of Dr. Abdullah Shaiboub. The objectives of the survey are to locate, survey and analyse the extensive remains of the ancient agricultural settlements that can be found in the wadis of the hinterlands of Tripolitania and the Sirtica. Within the framework established by the Department in…
Sampling seeds
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey X
This report discusses the first results of the botanical analysis of 182 samples from seven Romano-Libyan and two Islamic sites situated in the pre-desert of Tripolitania. Nine different crop plants have been discovered: barley, wheat, peas, lentils, olives, grapes, figs, dates and almonds. The likelihood of local production versus import, and of subsistence farming versus production for a market is discussed. No significant difference was detect…
An Early Medieval Hilltop Settlement in Molise
UN INSEDIAMENTO COLLINARE ALTOMEDIEVALE IN MOLISE: I RESTI BOTANICI DA D85 In questo articolo si tratta dei resti botanici raccolti durante gli scavi di D85, un insediamento collinare altomedievale nella valle del Biferno in Molise. Sono state raccolte grandi quantità di resti botanici carbonizzati. Sono stati trovate le seguenti piante: frumento, orzo, miglio, avena, ceci, fave, lino, fichi, uva e coriandolo. I risultati vengono messi a confront…
Excavations at Upper Suisgill, Sutherland
A narrow section across an area between two souterrains was excavated in advance of road realignment; part of one of the souterrains was also exposed. The excavation revealed deposits up to c 1.8 m deep in places, largely made up of material washed downhill on to the site. Early-mid first millennium BC: Period I – ard tillage; II – construction and reconstruction of a round timber house, and the erection of a stone-faced earth bank; III – tillage…
The plant remains
The absence of earth-filled structural features or easily identifiable graves precluded any systematic sampling programme for environmental evidence. However, two samples for the analysis of carbonised plant remains were collected from each of the two in situ inhumations (SF55 and SF73). The samples consisted of the sediment associated with the burials which included the matrix of the overlying cairn (context 002), and were processed using manual…
Charred Grain Assemblages from Roman-Period Corn Driers in Britain
This paper presents a review of the botanical evidence for the function of so-called 'corn-driers' from Roman-period Britain. The charred grain assemblages associated with corn-driers from twenty-one sites have been analysed. The results indicate that these kilns should be regarded as multi-functional structures; both the roasting of germinated grains for the production of malt and the parching/drying/ of grain in preparation for consumption and …
Garamantian Agriculture
Excavations at Zinchecra, a hill fort settlement of the Garamantes in Fezzan, southern Libya, have recovered a rich assemblage of desiccated and carbonised plant remains. The archaeobotanical analysis of this assemblage has produced a unique insight into the state of agriculture in the Sahara during the first half of the first millennium BC. Three cereal crops and three fruit crops have been identified, as well as salad plants and aromatic herbs.…
The plant remains from Mons Claudianus, a Roman quarry settlement in the Eastern Desert of Egypt — an interim report
Environmental Factors and the Yield Potential of Ancient Wheat Crops
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
The economic value of chaff and straw in arid and temperate zones
Probleme Der Küstenforschung im Südlichen Nordseegebiet
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008
The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet…
The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa
When is food a luxury
This paper explores definitions of luxury foods and considers the role of luxuries in marking social distinction. It is proposed that luxury foods are those foods that offer a refinement in texture, taste, fat content or other quality (such as stimulant or inebriant) and offer distinction, because of either their quantity or quality. Ethnographic research has revealed that an emphasis on quantity of food and elaboration of common staples is found…
An archaeobotanical contribution to the history of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai (syn. C. vulgaris Schrad.)
Gardens and fields
A re-analysis of agricultural production and consumption
Formation processes of desiccated and carbonized plant remains – the identification of routine practice
New Plant Foods in Roman Britain — Dispersal and Social Access
This paper was published as Environmental Archaeology, 2008, 13 (1), pp. 11-36. © 2008 Association for Environmental Archaeology. It is available from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/env/2008/00000013/00000001/art00002. Doi: 10.1179/174963108X279193
Food as embodied material culture
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2008, 21, pp. 83-109. It appears here with the permission of the publisher. It is available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com (email: [email protected]). Copyright Journal of Roman Archaeology. Permission to reproduce any of this material in print or in digital form must be sought from the publisher
Changing foodways
Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period
Agricultural innovation
This paper was published as World Archaeology, 2010, 42 (1), pp. 1-12. It is available from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438240903429649. DOI: 10.1080/00438240903429649
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