ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

In the context of recent appeals for the adoption of historical perspectives emerging in
environmental and conservation studies,'biodiversification processes' would be considered …

The paper presents a multidisciplinary research project (“Archaeology of Commons: cultural
Heritage and Material Evidence of a Disappearing Europe”) on the archaeology of common …

The paper focuses on the strong relationship between changes in legal access rights to
land, environmental resource management, as well as organization and lifestyles of past …

Forests are of great importance, not least as an integral part of complex land-use systems
shaping the European cultural landscape. Compared to the rates of change of open land …

Abstract The BRAIN (Botanical Records of Archaeobotany Italian Network) database and
network was developed by the cooperation of archaeobotanists working on Italian …

Recently, the woodmanship practices and localized naturalistic knowledge have been
acquired as indispensable for the European forest heritage conservation as well as for …

Il contributo, attraverso la discussione di alcuni casi di studio, prova ad esemplificare gli
approcci del Laboratorio di Archeologia e Storia Ambientale (Dafist-Distav dell'Università di …

The “wooded-meadows system” is a multifunctional use of vegetation resources widespread
in Europe since the Neolithic, and well documented in the Ligurian Apennines (NW Italy) …

Usually, soils types such as Amerindian “Terra Preta” or “charcoal earth” are considered as
archaeological/anthropogenic soils, where explicit human impacts have transformed the …