IPERION HSIntegrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science

Archaeobotany

Study of ancient plant remains in order to understand how people used plants in the past and their cutlural interactions with plants; vegetation history

Fields of application

  • Cultural heritage

    archaeological object and site, anthropogenic object

  • Natural heritage

    botanic collection

Materials

  • organic

    wood, crop, pigments, vegetation, plant parts

TOOLS

Flotation and wet-sieving

They are facilties for the processing of samples take to recover different materials from archaeological sites.