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The Botanical Record of Archaeobotany Italian Network - BRAIN: a cooperative network, database and website
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
Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: a dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape
Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized by extraordinary
habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For the first time, this paper reports on
the census of the Holocene archaeological sites that have been studied as part of archaeobotany in Italy
(continental Italy, the Italian peninsula and islands) over the last quarter in a century. Pollen, non-pollen
palynomorphs, seeds and fruits, woods/charcoals and other plant remains have all been analysed in multidisciplinary
researches. A list of 630 sites has been provided by more than 15 archaeobotanical teams. The sites are
located across the 20 regions of Italy, and in the Republic of San Marino (356 sites in northern Italy, 118 in central
Italy, 156 in southern Italy and on the islands). They belong to several cultural phases: 321 sites are only pre-
Roman, 264 are Roman/post-Roman, and 45 sites cover a broader range of time, present in both time spans.
Site distribution is plotted inmaps of site density according to geographical districts and the main chronological
phases. The reference list helps to find analytical data referring to the descriptive papers that may be scattered
throughout monographs and specific books on the matter
Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: a dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape
Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For the first time, this paper reports on the census of the Holocene archaeological sites that have been studied as part of archaeobotany in Italy (continental Italy, the Italian peninsula and islands) over the last quarter in a century. Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, seeds and fruits, woods/charcoals and other plant remains have
47 all been analysed in multidisciplinary researches. A list of 630 sites has been provided by more than 15 archaeobotanical teams. The sites are located across the 20 regions of Italy, and in the Republic of San Marino (356 sites in northern Italy, 118 in central Italy, 156 in southern Italy and on the islands). They belong to several cultural phases: 322 sites are only pre-Roman, 265 are Roman/post-Roman, and 43 sites cover a broader range of time, present in both time spans. Site distribution is plotted in maps of site density according to geographical districts and the main chronological phases. The reference list helps to find analytical data referring to the descriptive papers that may be scattered throughout monographies and specific books on the matter