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Dados Biográficos
| ID | 631786 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Welmoed A Out |
| PRENOMES | Welmoed A |
| SOBRENOME | Out |
| ASSINATURA | OUT W A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Moesgaard Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7262-5358 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Ethics in archaeobotany
This article presents the first systematic assessment of ethical concerns specific to archaeobotanical research, focusing on principles and values. Conducted by an international group of archaeobotanists, the study used an anonymous online survey to document experiences and perceptions within the archaeobotanical community with the aim of raising awareness, identifying prevalent good practices and noting points for improvement. The questionnaire …
Paradise lost
Interregional networks in the late Viking Age? Insights from a burned pit house in the Viking-Age town of Aros, present-day Aarhus, Denmark (ca. 980 CE)
The Viking Age was a dynamic period, with local centres and urban sites engaging to varying degrees in local, regional and interregional networks. While the role of certain northern towns in these networks is relatively well-known and the related knowledge up to date, other towns appear to have received comparatively little recent attention. This study aims to investigate the role of the Viking-Age town of Aros, present-day Aarhus, situated on th…
Advances in phytolith research in archaeology and paleoecology
Lolland’s changing landscapes
Many parts of Europe are today facing a wide range of societal and environmental challenges that demand a high degree of resilience and adaptability. Archaeology has an important role to play by providing novel perspectives on how people have been living with, and adapting to, change in dynamic environments over considerable time. This paper adopts a trans-chronological perspective on human-environment interaction in the Syltholm Fjord on the Dan…
Wood exploitation in northern Europe during the Early Neolithic
Rebooting the Study of Forager Plant Economies
The contribution of plants to the diets and wider economies of most prehistoric foragers is inadequately studied and poorly understood, also in comparison with other aspects of their economies and with prehistoric plant economies from the Neolithic onwards. This situation even applies to the Mesolithic of southern Scandinavia, which is a particularly intensely studied prehistoric forager sequence. In this paper we consider taphonomic, methodologi…
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites
Understanding the neolithisation process in northern Europe requires detailed knowledge of both the type of crop plants as well as gathered food plants from Neolithic Funnel Beaker sites (4000–2800 bce ). However, although many sites from this culture are known, significant gaps remain in our knowledge on which taxa were used as well as on how plant food was prepared. Here, we present the results of combined plant macro- and microremains from the…
Fuelling the Roman salt industry. Developing a new multiproxy approach to identify peat fuel from archaeological combustion residue
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods
Non-woody plant remains are known from burial contexts in North–western Europe, but get overlooked when preservation is suboptimal. While phytolith analysis has demonstrated its value regarding the detection of vegetative grave goods, systematic application of this method to graves in European archaeology is, however, scarce. This paper concerns the examination of the elite Viking-Age equestrian burial at Fregerslev II, where phytolith analysis, …
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective
Revealing the invisible dead
Recent investigations of an apparently ‘empty,’ partly disturbed Viking chamber grave in Denmark (Fregerslev II, dated around the mid-10th century CE) provided an opportunity to develop a novel multi-scale and multi-method analysis of burial and post-burial processes. To overcome the limitations of poor preservation of artefacts and bones, and the lack of a clear macrostratigraphic sequence, we integrated multi-proxy analyses of organic and inorg…
Wood, Seeds and Fruits, Phytoliths, Pollen and Non-pollen Palynomorphs of the Horse Burial of Fregerslev II
This work concerns multi-scalar archaeobotanical studies of a poorly preserved Viking-Age equestrian burial in Denmark, Fregerslev II, dated around the mid-10th century, where macrobotanical remains such as wood seeds and fruits, combined with phytoliths, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph records, revealed the nature of the grave goods and grave equipment of plant material. The microbotanical results point to the presence of bedding on the bottom…
Spatial Analysis of Charcoal and Wood
This paper concerns the spatial distribution of charcoal and uncarbonized wood at the Dutch Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, dating to c. 2900–2500 BCE, where a rescue excavation in 1980 revealed occupation units that were intermittently in use during three phases. While earlier published archaeobotanical data from Hekelingen III included only a list of charcoal identifications, rediscovered documentation from the 1980s now allows c…
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650
Although Rapa Nui has been proposed as a classic example of cultural collapse, this hypothesis has been repeatedly questioned. This paper investigates cultural continuity on Rapa Nui following the onset of deforestation through a study of red ochre pits. Red ochre pigments are well-known from various contexts on Rapa Nui, but until recently its origin and the extraction process involved in their production were not precisely understood. New excav…
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d
This paper presents a new high-resolution excavation sequence of a house at the 1st millennium a.d. site of Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, with implications for a new and detailed understanding of the period between the 7th and 9th centuries a.d. on the East African coast. This is an important period associated with a broad and distinctive cultural tradition, often seen as a pre- or proto-urban phase. Household excavations at Unguja Ukuu revealed two occ…
Towards improved detection and identification of crop by-products
The best of both worlds
Wood usage at Dutch Neolithic wetland sites
Using Branch Age and Diameter to Identify Woodland Management
Previous research involving models and age/diameter analysis of branches of modern trees has demonstrated the possibility of distinguishing between managed and unmanaged trees. These findings were then applied to waterlogged wood assemblages from archaeological contexts. The aim of this new study was to reinforce the validity of the models, also with respect to branches of greater diameter than those investigated previously, and to investigate th…
Maidanetske 2013
In European prehistory, population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are an infrequent phenomenon. The unexpected discovery of the Trypillia mega-sites, excavated nearly 50 years ago by Soviet, Ukrainian and Moldavian archaeologists using a multidisciplinary approach, uncovered the remains of more than 2000 houses spread over 250 hectares. These extraordinary mega-sites developed at the border of the North Pontic Forest Step…
Plant exploitation in Neolithic Sudan
Morphometric distinction between bilobate phytoliths from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves
Morphometric analysis of phytoliths
Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago
The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the results of one of the few examples in Africa of microbotanical analyses. Three grave contexts of phytolith-rich deposits and the dental calculus of 20 individuals were analysed from two Neolithic cemeteries in North and Central Sudan. The radiocarbon-dated phytoliths f…
Morphometric analysis of phytoliths
Branch age and diameter
Maidanetske 2013
In European prehistory, population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are an infrequent phenomenon. The unexpected discovery of the Trypillia mega-sites, excavated nearly 50 years ago by Soviet, Ukrainian and Moldavian archaeologists using a multidisciplinary approach, uncovered the remains of more than 2000 houses spread over 250 hectares. These extraordinary mega-sites developed at the border of the North Pontic Forest Step…
Morphometric distinction between bilobate phytoliths from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves
Revealing the invisible dead
Recent investigations of an apparently ‘empty,’ partly disturbed Viking chamber grave in Denmark (Fregerslev II, dated around the mid-10th century CE) provided an opportunity to develop a novel multi-scale and multi-method analysis of burial and post-burial processes. To overcome the limitations of poor preservation of artefacts and bones, and the lack of a clear macrostratigraphic sequence, we integrated multi-proxy analyses of organic and inorg…
Firewood collection strategies at Dutch wetland sites in the process of Neolithisation
This article investigates the firewood collection strategies at late Mesolithic and early and middle Neolithic Dutch wetland sites dating to 5500—3400 cal BC. It provides an overview of published and unpublished data of unworked, uncarbonised wood and wood charcoal from 15 sites in 3 regions. It is assumed that the unworked wood primarily represents the natural vegetation. The comparison of the wood and charcoal shows that the main factor influen…
Neolithisation at the site Brandwijk-Kerkhof, the Netherlands
Brandwijk-Kerkhof (ca. 4600 to 3630 cal b.c.) is a Neolithic site, located on a river dune in the Dutch Rhine/Maas river area. The natural vegetation and human impact upon it have been investigated by analysis of pollen and macroremains from four cores that are located at increasing distances up to 20 m from the site. The relationship between the strength of human impact on the vegetation and the distance of the cores from the river dune has been…
Growing habits? Delayed introduction of crop cultivation at marginal Neolithic wetland sites
This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the neolithisation process in the Netherlands after the arrival of the Linearbandkeramik Culture, focussing on local crop cultivation at Neolithic wetland sites of the Swifterbant Culture and Hazendonk Group. The debate of the past 30 years questions whether crop plants were cultivated locally in the exploitation area of wetland sites, or whether they were brought in from elsewhere. Which crop pla…
Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic human impact at Dutch wetland sites
Integrated archaeobotanical analysis
Reaction to “Cereal Cultivation at Swifterbant? Neolithic Wetland Farming on the North European Plain
Plant use at Funnel Beaker sites
Understanding the neolithisation process in northern Europe requires detailed knowledge of both the type of crop plants as well as gathered food plants from Neolithic Funnel Beaker sites (4000–2800 bce ). However, although many sites from this culture are known, significant gaps remain in our knowledge on which taxa were used as well as on how plant food was prepared. Here, we present the results of combined plant macro- and microremains from the…
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods
Non-woody plant remains are known from burial contexts in North–western Europe, but get overlooked when preservation is suboptimal. While phytolith analysis has demonstrated its value regarding the detection of vegetative grave goods, systematic application of this method to graves in European archaeology is, however, scarce. This paper concerns the examination of the elite Viking-Age equestrian burial at Fregerslev II, where phytolith analysis, …
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d
This paper presents a new high-resolution excavation sequence of a house at the 1st millennium a.d. site of Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, with implications for a new and detailed understanding of the period between the 7th and 9th centuries a.d. on the East African coast. This is an important period associated with a broad and distinctive cultural tradition, often seen as a pre- or proto-urban phase. Household excavations at Unguja Ukuu revealed two occ…
Spatial Analysis of Charcoal and Wood
This paper concerns the spatial distribution of charcoal and uncarbonized wood at the Dutch Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, dating to c. 2900–2500 BCE, where a rescue excavation in 1980 revealed occupation units that were intermittently in use during three phases. While earlier published archaeobotanical data from Hekelingen III included only a list of charcoal identifications, rediscovered documentation from the 1980s now allows c…
Using Branch Age and Diameter to Identify Woodland Management
Previous research involving models and age/diameter analysis of branches of modern trees has demonstrated the possibility of distinguishing between managed and unmanaged trees. These findings were then applied to waterlogged wood assemblages from archaeological contexts. The aim of this new study was to reinforce the validity of the models, also with respect to branches of greater diameter than those investigated previously, and to investigate th…
What’s in a hearth? Seeds and fruits from the Neolithic fishing and fowling camp at Bergschenhoek, The Netherlands, in a wider context
Lolland’s changing landscapes
Many parts of Europe are today facing a wide range of societal and environmental challenges that demand a high degree of resilience and adaptability. Archaeology has an important role to play by providing novel perspectives on how people have been living with, and adapting to, change in dynamic environments over considerable time. This paper adopts a trans-chronological perspective on human-environment interaction in the Syltholm Fjord on the Dan…
Fuelling the Roman salt industry. Developing a new multiproxy approach to identify peat fuel from archaeological combustion residue
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective
Neolithisation at the site Brandwijk-Kerkhof, the Netherlands
Brandwijk-Kerkhof (ca. 4600 to 3630 cal b.c.) is a Neolithic site, located on a river dune in the Dutch Rhine/Maas river area. The natural vegetation and human impact upon it have been investigated by analysis of pollen and macroremains from four cores that are located at increasing distances up to 20 m from the site. The relationship between the strength of human impact on the vegetation and the distance of the cores from the river dune has been…
Selective use of Cornus sanguinea L. (red dogwood) for Neolithic fish traps in the Netherlands
Recurrent results of wood identifications at Dutch Neolithic wetland sites indicate selective use of wood for fish traps. Three hypotheses on wood selection for fish traps are presented: functional selection, selection through cultural preference and selection under influence of the distribution of Cornus sanguinea L. (red dogwood). The hypotheses are tested by the available data of Neolithic fish traps from the Netherlands. The data show that fi…
Growing habits? Delayed introduction of crop cultivation at marginal Neolithic wetland sites
This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the neolithisation process in the Netherlands after the arrival of the Linearbandkeramik Culture, focussing on local crop cultivation at Neolithic wetland sites of the Swifterbant Culture and Hazendonk Group. The debate of the past 30 years questions whether crop plants were cultivated locally in the exploitation area of wetland sites, or whether they were brought in from elsewhere. Which crop pla…
Sowing the seed?
Sowing the seed? Human impact and plant subsistence in Dutch wetlands during the Late Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3400 cal BC). The understanding of the neolithisation process in the Netherlands has increased considerably during the last decades. A coherent overview of the archaeobotanical research on the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture was, however, lacking until now. This thesis aims to provide a better …
Firewood collection strategies at Dutch wetland sites in the process of Neolithisation
This article investigates the firewood collection strategies at late Mesolithic and early and middle Neolithic Dutch wetland sites dating to 5500—3400 cal BC. It provides an overview of published and unpublished data of unworked, uncarbonised wood and wood charcoal from 15 sites in 3 regions. It is assumed that the unworked wood primarily represents the natural vegetation. The comparison of the wood and charcoal shows that the main factor influen…
Reaction to “Cereal Cultivation at Swifterbant? Neolithic Wetland Farming on the North European Plain
Integrated archaeobotanical analysis
What’s in a hearth? Seeds and fruits from the Neolithic fishing and fowling camp at Bergschenhoek, The Netherlands, in a wider context
Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic human impact at Dutch wetland sites
Branch age and diameter
Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago
The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the results of one of the few examples in Africa of microbotanical analyses. Three grave contexts of phytolith-rich deposits and the dental calculus of 20 individuals were analysed from two Neolithic cemeteries in North and Central Sudan. The radiocarbon-dated phytoliths f…
Morphometric analysis of phytoliths
Plant exploitation in Neolithic Sudan
Morphometric distinction between bilobate phytoliths from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves
Towards improved detection and identification of crop by-products
The best of both worlds
Wood usage at Dutch Neolithic wetland sites
Using Branch Age and Diameter to Identify Woodland Management
Previous research involving models and age/diameter analysis of branches of modern trees has demonstrated the possibility of distinguishing between managed and unmanaged trees. These findings were then applied to waterlogged wood assemblages from archaeological contexts. The aim of this new study was to reinforce the validity of the models, also with respect to branches of greater diameter than those investigated previously, and to investigate th…
Maidanetske 2013
In European prehistory, population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are an infrequent phenomenon. The unexpected discovery of the Trypillia mega-sites, excavated nearly 50 years ago by Soviet, Ukrainian and Moldavian archaeologists using a multidisciplinary approach, uncovered the remains of more than 2000 houses spread over 250 hectares. These extraordinary mega-sites developed at the border of the North Pontic Forest Step…
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650
Although Rapa Nui has been proposed as a classic example of cultural collapse, this hypothesis has been repeatedly questioned. This paper investigates cultural continuity on Rapa Nui following the onset of deforestation through a study of red ochre pits. Red ochre pigments are well-known from various contexts on Rapa Nui, but until recently its origin and the extraction process involved in their production were not precisely understood. New excav…
Urban Chronology at a Human Scale on the Coast of East Africa in the 1st Millennium a.d
This paper presents a new high-resolution excavation sequence of a house at the 1st millennium a.d. site of Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, with implications for a new and detailed understanding of the period between the 7th and 9th centuries a.d. on the East African coast. This is an important period associated with a broad and distinctive cultural tradition, often seen as a pre- or proto-urban phase. Household excavations at Unguja Ukuu revealed two occ…
Wood, Seeds and Fruits, Phytoliths, Pollen and Non-pollen Palynomorphs of the Horse Burial of Fregerslev II
This work concerns multi-scalar archaeobotanical studies of a poorly preserved Viking-Age equestrian burial in Denmark, Fregerslev II, dated around the mid-10th century, where macrobotanical remains such as wood seeds and fruits, combined with phytoliths, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph records, revealed the nature of the grave goods and grave equipment of plant material. The microbotanical results point to the presence of bedding on the bottom…
Spatial Analysis of Charcoal and Wood
This paper concerns the spatial distribution of charcoal and uncarbonized wood at the Dutch Late Neolithic wetland site of Hekelingen III, dating to c. 2900–2500 BCE, where a rescue excavation in 1980 revealed occupation units that were intermittently in use during three phases. While earlier published archaeobotanical data from Hekelingen III included only a list of charcoal identifications, rediscovered documentation from the 1980s now allows c…
The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods
Non-woody plant remains are known from burial contexts in North–western Europe, but get overlooked when preservation is suboptimal. While phytolith analysis has demonstrated its value regarding the detection of vegetative grave goods, systematic application of this method to graves in European archaeology is, however, scarce. This paper concerns the examination of the elite Viking-Age equestrian burial at Fregerslev II, where phytolith analysis, …
Woodland management at the Swedish middle Neolithic site of Alvastra? A new perspective
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