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Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica www.palinopaleobot.unimore.it Dipartimento Scienze della Vita - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Palaeoenvironment, land-use and palaeoethnobotany from archaeobotanical research in Italy
Member of SBI Società Botanica Italiana
GRUPPO GP - SBI
GPSBI Gruppo Palinologia SBI
International Federation of Palynological Societies
European Pollen Database - European Modern Pollen Database
Research project
A.M. Mercuri, G. Bosi, M. Bandini Mazzanti, P. Torri, A. Benatti, A. Florenzano, M.C. Montecchi, E. Rattighieri, R. Rinaldi
Plant remains - including pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, seeds and fruits, woods and charcoals - are among the most important biological archives upon which past environmental reconstructions are based.
Cultural Landscapes of the Past
Plants are known to respond to both climate change and human impact. As humans lived in a region, ‘cultural transformations of natural habitats’ began, and were the inevitable consequence of human presence in lands. The weak anthropogenic influence on the environment firstly occurred in the vicinity of the settlements, and then became a true local impact. Then, human impact became evident at a larger regional scale depending on the chronological and cultural variables, and on the distance and intensity of activity performances.
PALICLAS EU Framework 3 Climate and Environment Programme
Ferrara Modena Gardolo
Ex Cinema Capitol Ospedale Maggiore - Milano
Piazza Municipale
Via C. Menotti
Giardino delle Duchesse
Grotta Tanella
Milano
Parma
Cassa di Risparmio Chiesa San Paolo Corso Duomo Ex Cinema Capitol Ex Cinema Splendor Ex Manifatt. Tabacchi Largo S. Francesco Via Castellaro Via C. Menotti Via Emilia Est Via P. Ferrari V.le Amendola Palazzo Boschetti Palazzo Vaccari Parco Novi Ark Piazza XX Settembre Piazza Roma
Canàr Nogara Cerea
Boccarone
Volta Mantovana Casale di Rivalta Poviglio
Ferrara Montegibbio Baggiovara Montale Argenta S 17 Cittanova Rubiera Monte Castellaccio Modena Sant’Agata Monte Bibele Imola Lugo Ravenna Sarzana Faenza Russi Forlì Domagnano Poggio Castellano Cà di Rigo Casinalbo
Toscana
V.le Amendola
Porta Reno
Piazza Castello
Monastero S. Antonio
Parco Novi Ark
Palazzo Vaccari
Vescovado
Largo S. Francesco
Cassa di Risparmio
Grotte Frasassi
A set of palynological / archaeobotanical research has been carried out in the last decades by our research team.
Grotta Vacche
Piano Locce
Podere Marzuolo
Poggio dell’Amore
Podere Terrato
Poggio dell’Amore Podere Terrato San Martino Case Nuove
Case Nuove
In Italy, investigations cover most of the regions from Northern (especially Emilia Romagna), Central (especially Tuscany) and Southern Italy (especially Basilicata and Sicily). Chronology ranges from the Middle Bronze age, to the Roman and Medieval ages, to Renaissance ages.
PAL8
SA 03/01
PAL 9
PAL11
SA 03/11
Isola Montecristo
Colle Massari
RF95-13 RF93-30 Piano Locce
The research joins multidisciplinary archaeological study to palaeoenvironmental–ecological approach, with focus on the Italian peninsula and its impressive prehistoric and historic archaeological heritage.
L. Albano
Colle Massari
San Martino
Podere Marzuolo
L. Nemi
Minturno
Sassari
Castellammare di Stabia
Torre Satriano Altojanni
Miglionico Fattoria Fabrizio
Difesa S.Biagio S. Angelo Pizzica
Ville S.Marco e Arianna
Pantanello
Basilicata
Grotta Scario
CHORA OF METAPONTUM
Jure Vetere
Sassari Difesa San Biagio
Fattoria Fabrizio Grotta Scario
Jure Vetere
Torre di Satriano
Stromboli
Sant’Angelo Vecchio
Altojanni
Pantanello
Miglionico
Taormina
Sicilia
Isola di Mozia Piazza Armerina
Anthropogenic pollen indicators
Philosophiana
Philosophiana
Villa del Casale
San Vincenzo - Stromboli
Taormina
Isola di Mozia
Microscopical remains from archaeological sites: a way to read and understand the environmental trasformations and development of cultural landscape (vegetation and human impact) in the last c. 11,500 years (Holocene) Parasite eggs from Medieval Parma: 1) Trichuris (cf. trichiura) 2) Trichuris (cf. suis) 3) Ascaris 4) Capillaria 5) Dicrocoelium 6) Diphyllobothrium
Mediterranean culture and climatic change: past patterns and future trends. Anna Maria Mercuri, Laura Sadori Dorthecht –Springer
Microscopic and macroscopic plant remains play key roles in palaeoecological reconstructions. Among the different plant records, the combined evidence of pollen and nonpollen palynomorphs (NPPs) found in samples taken from archaeological excavations is especially useful in discriminating land uses and pastoral/breeding activities.
ISBN 978-94-007-6703-4.30 Date June 2013
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Some pollen grains from archaeological sites: 1) Pinus 2) Quercus cf. cerris 3) Avena/Triticum group 4) Cichorieae 5) Olea 6) Vitis
The Mediterranean Sea: its History and Present Challenges
The Mediterranean basin has always featured, and still has, extremely rich and intermingled environmental and cultural biodiversity. The mosaic of habitats distributed around the Mediterranean basin was primarily transformed by climatic changes occurring at a global scale. In the meantime, the environment has been continuously exploited and the landscape shaped. Mediterranean is in fact a key region that is world-wide as the house for many of the most ancient civilizations.
Left: the five case study: a1. Uan Afuda cave; a2. planimetry; b. Benzú; c. La Vaquera cave; c1. environmental set; c2. planimetry; d. Terramara di Montale; e. Arslantepe. Right: Mediterranean sites discussed in the paper.
Five case studies are reported as examples of how archaeobotanical records can be tools to analyse cultural responses to environmental changes. Around the Mediterranean ‘Lake’, the history of cultural–environmental relations under changing climate was so complex that there are serious difficulties in distinguishing climate change from human impact in many proxy-data records. Pollen and archaeobotany are links among plants, habitats and cultural changes, while climate changes are at the basis on the overall environmental and landscape transformations.