Historic England, Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Portsmouth P04 9LD, UK.
Historic England, Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Portsmouth P04 9LD, UK.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 Oct;36(10):943-954. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.06.003. Epub 2021 Jun 28.
As a specialised branch of archaeology requiring specific field and laboratory methodologies, the contributions of archaeobotany have often been overlooked by the ecological research community. Developments in the fields of botany, chemistry, and ancient DNA analyses have greatly increased the potential for archaeobotany to contribute to topical questions relating to the Anthropocene and landscape transformations. We review the role of archaeobotany in identifying and describing past arable land use. Analytical techniques are illustrated with examples at both local and regional scales, demonstrating how archaeobotany can provide unique details of the wide array of past subsistence and land-use strategies. These data and their potential should be better recognised as important information that could underpin models seeking to evaluate or predict the effects of socioenvironmental interactions.
作为考古学的一个专门分支，需要特定的野外和实验室方法，因此，植物考古学的贡献常常被生态研究界所忽视。植物学、化学和古代 DNA 分析领域的发展极大地提高了植物考古学在解决与人类世和景观转型相关的热点问题方面的作用。我们回顾了植物考古学在识别和描述过去耕地利用方面的作用。通过本地和区域尺度的例子说明了分析技术，展示了植物考古学如何为过去各种生计和土地利用策略提供独特的细节。这些数据及其潜力应该得到更好的认可，因为它们是重要的信息，可以为评估或预测社会环境相互作用的影响的模型提供支持。
