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The memory of water: Archaeobotanical evidence of wetland plants from Modena (Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy) and palaeoecological remarks
Abstract : Modena, founded by the Romans (183 BC), has always been conditioned by water in all its urban history. In the city,
numerous archaeobotanical investigations have been carried out in order to reconstruct the natural landscape and human–
environment interactions over time. During these investigations, four archaeological sites (two Roman and two medieval)
have revealed deposits with a marked character of palaeobiocoenosis, largely resulting from the natural environment
surrounding the sites, due to natural “seed rain”. These deposits are characterized by widespread evidence of plants related to
water, constituting a valuable archive to investigate habitats which currently have become very rare and threatened, if they
have not completely disappeared. The present paper aims to reveal the peculiarities of the Roman/medieval
archaeocarpological floristic lists (through a comparison with the flora over the last two centuries in the area of Modena)
and highlight the possible causes explaining the presence or the demise of several taxa, considering also the palaeoecological
reconstruction of the environment in which they have been found.
https://hal-unilim.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01126716
Contributeur : Alessandra Benatti <>
Soumis le : vendredi 6 mars 2015 - 16:08:59
Dernière modification le : mercredi 4 mars 2020 - 12:22:19
Contributeur : Alessandra Benatti <>
Soumis le : vendredi 6 mars 2015 - 16:08:59
Dernière modification le : mercredi 4 mars 2020 - 12:22:19
