The Botanical Record of Archaeobotany Italian Network - BRAIN: a cooperative network, database and website

Con autorización de la revista para autores CSIC[EN] The BRAIN (Botanical Records of Archaeobotany Italian Network) database and network was developed by the cooperation of archaeobotanists working on Italian archaeological sites. Examples of recent research including pollen or other plant remains in analytical and synthetic papers are reported as an exemplar reference list. This paper retraces the main steps of the creation of BRAIN, from the scientific need for the first research cooperation to the website which has a free online access since 2015.Peer reviewe

Evoluzione del paesaggio nel bacino del lago di Como: nuovi dati per la ricostruzione della vegetazione tra tardiglaciale e olocene a sud delle Alpi in base allo studio dei macroresti botanici del sondaggio di Piazza Verdi a Como.

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Impatto umano sulla vegetazione in Friuli (Italia) e Slovenia tra Neolitico ed età romana. Tracce di deforestazione in due territori confinanti

Impatto umano sulla vegetazione in Friuli (Italia) e Slovenia tra Neolitico ed età romana. Tracce di deforestazione in due territori confinant

Tracce del paesaggio vegetale a Fara Novarese

ricostruzione del paesaggio nel territorio di Fara Novarese tra età romana e medioev

Il pozzo di età gota di Frascaro

Analisi paleobotaniche dei residui organici rinvenuti nel pozzo del villaggio ostrogoto di Frascaro (Al

The Intimate Soul of the Pyres: New Archaeological Data from the <i>Terre di Rogo</i> (Pyre Debris) of Pre-Roman Necropolis in Padua (Northern Italy)

The ‘terre di rogo’ (pyre debris) are black-coloured layers resulting from the crematory pyres, placed inside graves within the ritual of secondary deposition and containing different materials, including cremation slags. The characterisation of the slags, until now rarely conducted by chemical techniques, can provide useful data to explain more precisely the protocol of the funeral ritual and to better understand the effects of fire during cremation for the accumulation of pyre debris. In this study, a fast screening method using ATR-mode infrared spectroscopy is proposed, which may highlight the need for further investigations with SEM and XRD. The protocol was tested on the black and irregularly shaped cremation slags from the pyre debris of two Iron Age cremation necropolises in Padua (northern Italy). The results of the analysis identified several types of cremation slags within each individual pyre ground and the presence of bone fragments exposed to different intensities of combustion during cremation