Early Neolithic woodland composition and exploitation in the Southern Levant: a comparison between archaeobotanical remains from WF16 and present-day woodland at Hammam Adethni
Early Neolithic woodland composition and exploitation in the Southern Levant: a comparison between archaeobotanical remains from WF16 and present-day woodland at Hammam Adethni
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黎凡特南部新石器时代早期林地的组成和开发：WF16 的考古植物遗骸与 Hammam Adethni 现今林地的比较
DOI：
10.1179/174963107x172741
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
B. Finlayson
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作者：
S. Mithen;Phil Austen;A. Kennedy;H. Emberson;N. Lancaster;B. Finlayson
摘要南黎凡特WF16陶器新石器时代遗址的发掘产生了一个由植物宏大化石和木炭组成的考古植物学组合。与所有这种组合一样，它的物种组成很可能会偏颇地反映出新石器时代林地内由于文化选择和差异化保存而被开发的物种。为便于对其进行解释，对16号运河东南约4公里处Hammam Adethni的一片相对未受干扰的走廊林地进行了调查，该林地与一条永久水道有关。这片林地内的物种与考古植物学组合中的物种大量重叠表明，这片今天的林地提供了新石器时代的类似物，因此可能表明WF16的居民可能开发了哪些其他植物资源，但没有留下考古痕迹。对瓦迪费南现今贝都因人炉灶中木炭的比较研究支持了对这一结果的解释。
Abstract Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of WF16 in the Southern Levant produced an archaeobotanical assemblage constituted by plant macro-fossils and wood charcoal. As with all such assemblages, its species composition will most likely provide a biased reflection of those within the Neolithic woodland that had been exploited owing to cultural selection and differential preservation. As a means of facilitating its interpretation, a survey was undertaken of a relatively undisturbed patch of gallery woodland associated with a permanent water course at Hammam Adethni, approximately four kilometres south-east of WF16. The substantial overlap of the species within this woodland and those in the archaeobotanical assemblage suggests that this present-day woodland provides an analogue for that of the Neolithic and may therefore indicate what other plant resources the inhabitants of WF16 may have exploited, but which have left no archaeological trace. The interpretation of the results is supported by a comparative study of wood charcoal from present-day Bedouin hearths in Wadi Faynan.