[Archport] Within the Woodlands: Exploitation of Wild Plants during the Medieval and Post-Medieval period

[Joao Tereso <jptereso@gmail.com>]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that our proposal for session called 

“Within the Woodlands: Exploitation of Wild Plants during the Medieval and Post-Medieval period” 

has been accepted within the 23th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists" which will be held in Maastricht (The Netherlands), 30 August -3 September 2017.

Our aim is to organise a session of half day with presentations of 14-15 minutes, including discussion, introductory and closing comments. We invite you to participate in this session by submitting your abstracts for papers and posters from 3 February 2017. Please follow the guidelines provided by the organisation: http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl.

THEME:

Interpreting the archaeological record

ABSTRACT:

Wild plant resources were crucial for past communities, even during Medieval and Post-Medieval period. Woodlands had an important role in the day-to-day life of these communities providing wood, charcoal, mushrooms, moss, fibers, resins, tars, fruits, nuts, berries, animal fodder, etc.

This session will focus on wild plant resources, defining their importance in recent periods through interdisciplinary approaches including archaeology, archaeobotany and analysis of historical sources. Until now, the study of medieval and post medieval woodland exploitation has mainly focused on timber and fuelwood supply and charcoal production. Woodland exploitation for other plant resources is far less known. This session wants to fill this research gap focusing on the importance of these landscapes in the medieval and post medieval

economy, including also other themes associated to these resources such as trade, exchange, cultural practices, identity, etc.

KEYWORDS:

Wild plants; Archaeology; Archaeobotany; History.

ORGANISERS:

María Martín-Seijo 1, 

Koen Deforce 2, 

Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet 3, 

João P. Tereso 4, 

Julien Wiethold 5 

(1Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; 2 Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences; 3 Università di Padova; 4 CIBIO-InBio-Universidade do Porto; 5 Inrap)

João Pedro Vicente Tereso

InBIO - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório Associado
CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto

InBIO- Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Associated Laboratory)
CIBIO - Research Center In Biodiversity and Genetic Resources/University of Porto