Sieving experiment: the controlled recovery of charred plant remains from modern and archaeological samples |
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Authors: | Dominique de Moulins |
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Institution: | (1) Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage, 23 Savile Row, W1X 1AB London, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Results of experimental retrieval of plant remains (both charred modern and fossil) from three sediment types (clay, gravel
and sandy loam) carried out by environmental archaeologists from the Ancient Monuments Laboratory and the Central Archaeology
Service, English Heritage, are reported. For each sediment type, six different treatments were carried out using three flotation
machines of the Siraf type, two other machines in use in two archaeological units and one experimental machine. The results
show that there is invariably considerable discrepancy between the amount of plant material present and that recovered, that
the Serif-type machine is among the best currently available and that pretreatment of particular mineral soils may improve
recovery of plant macrofossil material. |
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Keywords: | Plant macrofossils Clay-rich soils Flotation Charring regimes Retrieval experiment |
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