In the autumn, 2009, I organized a questionnaire about how
archaeobotanists deal with a variety of practical issues concerning the
analysis of macroremains. It was intended to inform discussion at a forum
organized by Christine Hastorf, "Quantification and Presentation:
Effective Means of Presenting Plant Evidence in Archaeology" (Friday,
April 16, 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology). For a summary of results, see Archaeobotanical
Methodology: Results of an Archaeobotany Questionnaire. SAA Archaeological Record
11(4): 8-10, published in 2011. If you want to read a fuller accounting of the results, click on Archaeobotany Methodology Survey.
Near East searches and resources
ABZU:
Oriental Institute Research Archive
Paléorient
TAY:Türk Arkeoloji
Yerleşmeleri (Archaeological Settlements of Turkey)--inventory of sites
Organizations of archaeological and
archaeobotanical interest
ISAW: Institute for the Study
of the Ancient World
UPM:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Archaeology magazine: Archived abstracts
AEA: Association for
Environmental Archaeology
Archaeobotany listserv (use search term:
archaeobotany
Colleagues, Projects, and Colleagues'
Projects
Malyan
Gordion: official
project page
Sweyhat
academia.edu:
a website that is trying to connect academics worldwide. So if you want
to check out my page, see NFM's page
Helmut Kroll: literature
on archaeological remains of cultivated plants (bibliography)
George
Willcox: archaeobotany
Simone
Riehl: archaeobotany; see also Archaeobotanical database
for Near East
Eleni
Asouti: archaeobotany (charcoal)
Dorian
Fuller
at UCL:
archaeobotany
Delwen Samuel and Mark
Nesbitt: archaeobotany
Environmental Archaeology Lab at Boston U:
(John (Mac) Marston)
Jade d'Alpoim Guedes paleobot.org,
Collaborative site for seed identification and networking
Organizations of botanical or ethnobotanical
interest
Society of Ethnobiology
Society for Ecological Restoration
People and
Plants Online: Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Society for Economic Botany
Legumes!:
Cooperative Research Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture
Barleyworld!
Wood
Anatomy: International Association of Wood Anatomists
Maps
Atlas for the End of the World
(The name speaks for itself, sadly)
oldmapsonline
Harvard worldmap
Orbis Roman period interactive map
Services
Simple flotation instructions, a cheap manual
system that doesn't use a lot of water
C-14 Calibration (just
plug in BP +/- to get rough idea of your date!)
FAO food
composition, see 'tables and databases'
Archaeobotanical database
for Near East maintained by Simone Riehl
Archaeobotanical literature
data base maintained by Helmut Kroll
Collaborative archaeobotanical database of seed images
maintained by Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
Wood anatomy key, species of
central Europe
Mansfeld database on crop plants
HTML info, also at
HTML guide
ASCII code for HTML
Non-dithering
colors for HTML
Colors for
HTML
Community
Supported Agriculture for locally produced food, all over the U.S.!
Travelers' Health,
Center for Disease Control
For fun and general interest
Plants are Cool, Too! videos
Zooarchaeology video
Jackson Pollock site
Julie
Unruh's paintings
International Dark Sky Association. Watch the
interesting video,
Hidden Costs Series: Light Pollution, or read the
informative article on the same subject to see why I care.
Jack Cheng's archaeological and general blog
Trees and Plant
Lore resources