A statistical approach to the archaeological identification of crop processing |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, UK;2. Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies, Souidias 54, Athens 10676, Greece;3. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Box 1837, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA;4. Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology Greek Ministry of Culture, Ardittou 34b, 11636 Athens, Greece;5. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ephorate of Antiquity of Athens, Makriyianni 2-4, Athens 11742, Greece;6. School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;1. University of Hohenheim, Institute of Botany, Garbenstrasse 30, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany;2. Department of Mineralogy-Petrology-Economic Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;3. LIRA Laboratory, Dept. of Archaeology Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;4. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI-AUTH), Balkan Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Since the processing of crops has a direct effect on the composition of archaeobotanical samples, variation due to crop processing must be filtered out before using samples for the study of crop economy and husbandry. As the archaeological context of plant material does not often provide a reliable basis for the identification of crop processing products and byproducts, this paper presents a method based on the statistical comparison of archaeological samples with ethnographically collected material and on an internal statistical analysis of the archaeological samples themselves. These analyses make use of differences in the categories of weed seeds extracted at each stage of the crop processing sequence and are thus more reliable and more widely applicable than simple calculations of the relative quantities of grain, chaff and weed. Ethnographic and archaeological material from Greece is used to illustrate the method and some of the wider implications of the results are discussed. |
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