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Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology (First edition 2012)
René T. J. Cappers
Reinder Neef
出版
Barkhuis
, 2012-01-06
主題
Nature / Plants / General
Science / Earth Sciences / General
Science / Environmental Science
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Science / Paleontology
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
9491431072
9789491431074
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DWyTolDpDVgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical records, being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetations and of agricultural practices in particular. We hope this book will help palaeobotanists, environmental archaeologists, and colleagues from related disciplines optimize inferences based on what we could term old-style archaeobotany. And we hope that our observations will serve as an eye-opener and improve future research, not only as it is practised in our laboratories, but also as it is practised in the field.