Environment and plant economy during the Mesolithic in the Haut-Quercy (Lot, France): anthracological and carpological data

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Charcoal analysis and wood diameter: inductive and deductive methodological approaches for the study of firewood collecting practices

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Dead wood gathering among Neanderthal groups: Charcoal evidence from Abric del Pastor and El Salt (Eastern Iberia)

We present here a new approach combining the microscopic characterization of fungal decay features and the fragmentation degree of the charcoal remains from Middle Palaeolithic combustion structures: features H4 and H11 from Abric del Pastor, unit IV (>75 ka BP) and features H50 and H57 from El Salt, unit Xb (ca. 52 ka BP), Eastern Iberia. The observation of wood degradation patterns that occurred prior to charring followed by their quantitative analysis according to previous experimental studies revealed differences between the alteration degrees of the firewood used in the hearths, highlighting the existence of firewood acquisition criteria based on dead wood gathering and also suggesting smoke-related functions. Coupled with fragmentation analyses, this method highlighted possible post-depositional processes affecting the higher degraded charcoals. These results lead us to propose a quantitative analysis of the fungal decay patterns on Middle Palaeolithic charcoal reinforcing the previous hypotheses about dead wood gathering among Neanderthal groups as an accessible and available resource in the surroundings. These data have significant implications for the interpretation of firewood use and management by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers which was traditionally defined as an opportunistic activity according to the absence of selection criteria based on specific taxa

Boinville BBP16, STR 97 : charbons de bois.

Boinville BBP16, STR 97 : charbons de bois

Ethnoarchéologie du bois chez les Evenks de Sibérie orientale. Séminaire « Le bois et ses usages de la Préhistoire à nos jours

Ethnoarchéologie du bois chez les Evenks de Sibérie orientale. Séminaire « Le bois et ses usages de la Préhistoire à nos jour

Preliminary report on charcoal samples from Kovrizhka III site.

Preliminary report on charcoal samples from Kovrizhka III site

Preliminary report on charcoal samples from Kovrizhka III site.

Preliminary report on charcoal samples from Kovrizhka III site

Roquemissou : nouvelles analyses anthracologiques et premiers tests phytolithes: Fouille archéologique de Roquemissou à Montrozier (Aveyron). Rapport d’opération programmée triennale 2014-2016

Roquemissou : nouvelles analyses anthracologiques et premiers tests phytolithe

etude anthracologique du tell protohistorique de Qarassa (Leja, Syrie)

etude anthracologique du tell protohistorique de Qarassa (Leja, Syrie

Ethnoarchéologie du bois chez les Evenks de Sibérie orientale. Séminaire « Le bois et ses usages de la Préhistoire à nos jours

Ethnoarchéologie du bois chez les Evenks de Sibérie orientale. Séminaire « Le bois et ses usages de la Préhistoire à nos jour