ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 24
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, External department linked to the degrees
Areas: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Área externa M.U en Arqueología y Ciencias de la Antigüedad (3ª ed)
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To introduce students into the complexities of human-plant relationship through the study of botanical remains recovered from archaeological contexts.
To know the main archaeobotanical evidence and its methods of recovery and analysis.
To provide students with the basic tools needed to work on archaeobotanical remains as archaeological and historical evidence.
EXPOSITORY/INTERACTIVE TEACHING
Plants and human communities in the past.
Plant remains in archaeological contexts. The formation of the archaeobotanical assemblages.
Strategies of recovery and sampling of soils, sediments, structures and objects for analysing archaeological plant remains.
Charcoal analysis. Carpology. Palynology.
Approach to other techniques: phytoliths and fibre analysis.
Introduction to the applications of vibrational spectroscopu (FTIR-ATR) and solids' colourimetry
LAB WORK
Familirization with the use of the optical microscope
Observation of pollen grains and spores
Use of doctomous keys for the identificaction of pollen grains and spores
Use of vibrational spectroscopy and solids' colourimetry equipment
FIELD VISIT
Field work in an archaeological context, Pedra Castro hillfort site (Santiago de Compostela), if funding is obtained, for gathering archaeobotanical samples.
Visita a un contexto arqueolóxico, xacemento de Pedra Castro (Santiago de Compostela), en caso de dispor de financiación, para a recollida de mostras arqueobotánicas.
Basic references
Brunning, R., Watson, J. (2010). Waterlogged wood: guidelines on the recording, sampling, conservation, and curation of waterlogged wood.
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/waterlogged-wo…
Campbell, G., Moffett, L., Straker, V. (2011). Environmental Archaeology: a guide to the theory and practice of methods, from sampling and recovery to post-excavation. Edited and brought to Press by David M. Jones,
English Heritage Publishing.
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/environmental-…
Digital Plant Atlas. 2006-onwards.
https://www.plantatlas.eu/
The Global Pollen Project. The Open Platform for Pollen Identification.
https://globalpollenproject.org/
González Carretero, L., Wollstonecroft, M., Fuller, D. Q. (2017). A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals: a case study at Çatalhöyük East (Turkey). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 26(4), 415-432.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-017-0602-6
Insidewood. 2004-onwards.
http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search
Jacomet, S. (2006). Identification of cereal remains from archaeological sites. Basel University, Basel.
https://duw.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/IPNA/PDF_s/PDF_s_in_use…
Karsten, A. (2018). Waterlogged Organic Artefacts: Guidelines on their Recovery, Analysis and Conservation. Historic England.
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/waterlogged-or…
Lema, V. C., Archila, S. C., Giovannetti, M. C. (2008). Arqueobotánica y teoría arqueológica. Discusiones desde Suramérica. Uniandes.
http://atlas.umss.edu.bo:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/795
Margariti, Ch. (2019). FIBRANET database, Centre for Textile Research/University of Copenhagen, Project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie programme under grant agreement No 745865.
https://netlearning.gr/fibranet/
Martín-Seijo, M.; Rico Rey, A.; Teira Brión, A.; Picón Platas, I.; García González, I.; Abad Vidal, E. (2010). Guía de Arqueobotánica. pp. 1 - 122. Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia.
https://www.cultura.gal/sites/default/files/documents/publicacion/Guia_…
Martin-Seijo, M (2020). ¿No hay más leña que la que arde? Antracología aplicada a contextos Prehistóricos. Red Colaborativa de Excelencia Docente mediante Clases Magistrales en la Red. Universidad de Valladolid.
https://youtu.be/MVqZxh2_S2I
PalDat - Palynological Database. an online publication on recent pollen
https://www.paldat.org/
Peña-Chocarro, L. (2020). Los recursos vegetales en Arqueología: semillas y frutos. Red Colaborativa de Excelencia Docente mediante Clases Magistrales en la Red. Universidad de Valladolid.
https://youtu.be/gTKTkmHH1Qc
Peña-Chocarro, L., Zapata, L., González Urquijo, J. E., Ibáñez-Estévez, J. J. (2000). Agricultura, alimentación y uso del combustible: aplicación de modelos etnográficos en arqueobotánica. C. Mata & G. Pérez (eds.) Agricultors, artesans i comerciants. III Reunió sobre economía en el mon ibèric. Saguntum Extra 3: 403-420
https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/146725/1/Ibañez-2000-Agricultur…
Phytcore Website
https://www.phytcore.org/phytolith/index.php
Piqué, R. (2006). Los carbones y las maderas de contextos arqueológicos y el paleoambiente. Ecosistemas 15 (1): 31-38.
https://www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ecosistemas/article/downlo…
Piqué, R. (2020). Armas y herramientas de madera. Usos tecnológicos de las plantas. Origen/Cuadernos Atapuerca.
https://i.atapuerca.org/DOC/47520500-0A7C-FDBB-AA9EBEA3C98FB644.PDF
Plants for a Future. (2010-2020)
https://pfaf.org/user/AboutUs.aspx
Schoch, W., Heller, I., Schweingruber, F.H., Kienast,F., (2004). Wood anatomy of central European Species.
www.woodanatomy.ch
Schweingruber, F. H., Börner, A. (2018). The plant stem: a microscopic aspect. Springer.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319735238
Schweingruber, F., Landolt, W. (2005). The xylem database.
https://www.wsl.ch/dendropro/xylemdb/
WOODAN Foundation (2019)
https://www.woodan.org/
Complementary references
Berihuete-Azorín, M. (2016). More than a list of plants: a proposal of systematization of ethnobotanical information for archaeobotanical interpretation. Quaternary International, 404, 4-15.
Buxó, R. (1997). Arqueología de las plantas. Barcelona, Ed. Crítica.
Buxó, R., Piqué, R. (2003). La recogida de muestras en arqueobotánica: objetivos y propuestas metodológicas. La gestión de los recursos vegetales y la transformación del paleopaisaje en el Mediterráneo occidental. Barcelona: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya.
Buxó, R., Piqué, R. (2008). Arqueobotánica: los usos de las plantas en la Península Ibérica. Barcelona, Ed. Ariel.
Hastorf, C. A. (1999). Recent research in paleoethnobotany. Journal of Archaeological Research, 7(1), 55-103.
Hather, J.G. (2000). The Identification of the Northern European Woods. A guide for archaeologists and conservators, London: Archetype Publications.
Jones, G. (1991). Numerical analysis in archaeobotany. Progress in Old World Palaeoethnobotany, 63-80.
Marguerie, D., Hunot, J. Y. (2007). Charcoal analysis and dendrology: data from archaeological sites in north-western France. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(9), 1417-1433.
Piqué, R. (1999). Producción y uso del combustible vegetal: una evaluación arqueològica. Treballs d’Etnoarqueologia 3, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid.
Schiffer, M. B. (1987). Formation processes of the archaeological record. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Schweingruber, F. H. 1990 Anatomie europäischer Hölzer. Bern und Stuttgart.
Théry-Parisot, I., Chabal, L., Chrzavzez, J. (2010). Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 291(1-2), 142-153.
Zohary, D., Hopf, M., Weiss, E. (2012). Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin. Oxford University Press on Demand.
Establishing an adequate gathering of samples from soil, deposits, features, and objects in the framework of the archaeological excavation.
Selecting the different study methods suitable for analysing soils, sediments and plant remains recovered from archaeological contexts.
Understanding the different stages of some of the most common archaeobotanical methods: charcoal analysis, carpology, palynology, phytolith and starch analysis.
Being competent to interpret the results of archaeobotanical and soil analyses and integrating them in the archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations.
Expository and interactive teaching of a face-to-face nature, and partially virtual mentoring. The modality of practice and the field practice will be face to face. It will combine lectures in which the contents of the agenda will be explained, with interactive classes in which instrumental aspects and case studies will be addressed.
A continuous formative evaluation will be carried out (30%), combined with exercices/case studies that will be handed out throughout the course (35%) and a final test (35%) related to the academic contents.
In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the Normativa de avaliación de rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións will apply.
If the student does not attend the final test either in person (depending on the scenario), an evaluation of Not Presented will be provided.
In the extraordinary evaluation opportunity it will be necessary to provide the missing elements of qualification or those that do not reach a sufficient mark.
In case of official dispensation, the evaluation will consist of a written exam (70%) on a previously agreed bibliography, and an assignment that will be equivalent to the interactive classes (30%). This work must be agreed with the teachers in charge at the beginning of the term, no later than October 21st, 2020.
Teaching activities of an expository nature: 7 hours
Seminar interactive teaching activities: 12 hours
Field: 2 hours
Tutorials: 3 hours
ECTS Student Work: 49 hours
Exam/Final Test: 2
Total: 75 hours
Attendance and active participation are recommended, and attendance at mentoring. Fluency in English is recommended.
Antonio Manuel Martinez Cortizas
- Department
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Area
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Phone
- 881813379
- antonio.martinez.cortizas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Noemi Silva Sanchez
- Department
- External department linked to the degrees
- Area
- Área externa M.U en Arqueología y Ciencias de la Antigüedad (3ª ed)
- noemi.silva.sanchez [at] usc.es
- Category
- External area professional_máx. 30 h
| Thursday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 01, Laboratory |
| 01.10.2024 11:30-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 15 |
| 06.21.2024 11:30-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 15 |