Background Natural products, whether pure compounds or standardized plant extracts, offer
unlimited opportunities for other drug sources due to the unequaled availability of chemical …

There seems to be a general feeling that some fundamental changes are underway in
archaeological thinking and have been for some time now. One need only look at some …

Recent research into plant bast fibre technology points to a Neolithic European tradition of
working fibres into threads by splicing, rather than draft spinning. The major issue now is the …

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad
range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record …

Nowadays most plant textiles used for clothing and household are made of cotton and
viscose. Before the 19th century however, plant textiles were mainly made from locally …

The reconstruction of human impact is pivotal in palaeoecological studies, as humans are
among the most important drivers of Holocene vegetation and ecosystem change …

Recent analysis of the wool textiles from the famous Egtved oak coffin burial in Denmark
indicated that the wool had been obtained from beyond Denmark. Was this an isolated case …

Bast fibres have been commonly used as a textile material in Northern Europe since
Neolithic times. However, the process of identifying the different species has been …

The identification of bast fibre samples, in particular, bast fibres used in textiles, is an
important issue in archaeology, criminology and other scientific fields. One of the …

The unambiguous identification of bast fibers represents one of the main challenges for
archaeologists and conservators dealing with archaeological textiles, motivated by the …