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Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope ratios to identify cultivation intensity: a comparison of cereal production regimes in Haute Provence, France and Asturias, Spain
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · Ocak 2016
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Combining functional weed ecology and crop stable isotope ratios to identify cultivation intensity a comparison of cereal production regimes in Haute Provence France and Asturias Spain
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · 2016 SCI-Expanded
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DergiVegetation History and Archaeobotany
Yayın TarihiOcak 2016
Cilt / Sayfa25 · 57-73
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84952988397
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This investigation combines two independent methods of identifying crop growing conditions and husbandry practices—functional weed ecology and crop stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis—in order to assess their potential for inferring the intensity of past cereal production systems using archaeobotanical assemblages. Present-day organic cereal farming in Haute Provence, France features crop varieties adapted to low-nutrient soils managed through crop rotation, with little to no manuring. Weed quadrat survey of 60 crop field transects in this region revealed that floristic variation primarily reflects geographical differences. Functional ecological weed data clearly distinguish the Provence fields from those surveyed in a previous study of intensively managed spelt wheat in Asturias, north-western Spain: as expected, weed ecological data reflect higher soil fertility and disturbance in Asturias. Similarly, crop stable nitrogen isotope values distinguish between intensive manuring in Asturias and long-term cultivation with minimal manuring in Haute Provence. The new model of cereal cultivation intensity based on weed ecology and crop isotope values in Haute Provence and Asturias was tested through application to two other present-day regimes, successfully identifying a high-intensity regime in the Sighisoara region, Romania, and low-intensity production in Kastamonu, Turkey. Application of this new model to Neolithic archaeobotanical assemblages in central Europe suggests that early farming tended to be intensive, and likely incorporated manuring, but also exhibited considerable variation, providing a finer grained understanding of cultivation intensity than previously available.
Yazarlar (13)
1
Amy Bogaard
2
John Hodgson
3
Erika Nitsch
4
Glynis Jones
5
Amy Styring
6
Charlotte Diffey
7
John Pouncett
8
Christoph Herbig
9
Michael Charles
10
Füsun Ertuğ
11
Osman Tugay
12
Dragana Filipovic
13
Rebecca Fraser
Anahtar Kelimeler
Agricultural intensity
Archaeobotany
Neolithic
Stable isotopes
Weed ecology
Kurumlar
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main Germany
Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA
Belgrade Serbia
Orhangazi caddesi
Bursa Turkey
Selçuk Üniversitesi
Selçuklu Turkey
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Oxford United Kingdom
Metrikler
70
Atıf
13
Yazar
5
Anahtar Kelime