Weed finds as indicators for the cultivation regime of the early Neolithic Bandkeramik culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7535967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Kreuz (0000-0002-9661-2567, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, corresponding author), Eva Schäfer (Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 333-348 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00334-011-0294-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2012200582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 24 |
Ethnographic data combined with the characteristics of the weed species from Bandkeramik settlement sites give hints for the reconstruction of Early Neolithic agricultural practises in Central Europe. In contrast to the Balkan situation with a high diversity in cultivated crops, Bandkeramik field management can be reconstructed as a simple agricultural system with emphasis on summer crop growing. Permanent fields were treated with hoes, digging sticks or similar tools, sown in spring and grazed in autumn and winter. The intensity of field management seems to increase through time as shown by diachrone comparison of archaeobotanical data from Neolithic, Iron Age and Roman times. The absence of winter-cereals such as naked wheat, grown in the Balkan Peninsula, gives a hint of a certain emphasis on stock breeding. Summer crop growing would have had the advantage that the Bandkeramik fields could be grazed after harvest until next spring and would therefore be manured at the same time
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Agronomy · Archaeology · Biology · Crop · Digging · Geography · Peninsula · Spring (device · Weed · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Forestry
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| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |