Task 4 - Carpological analysis: plant food production and consumption
Coordinator: João Tereso
Task 4 intends to identify the main cultivated and wild food plants consumed in the project’s study-area, addressing cultural, environmental and technical aspects related to their exploitation and consumption. Eventual patterns related to the chronology, location and type of settlements will be looked for, namely concerning differences in the access to food plants as well as harvesting methods, post-harvesting techniques, storage strategies, among others. Eventual differential access to food plants may be detected by addressing distinct types of settlements and areas within settlements and by covering much of the chronological and geographical diversity of the Lusitania Province. Site-based analyses will use both number of remains and ubiquity but comparison between distinct sites will privilege the use of ubiquity data on the level of the stratigraphic unit, considering number of remains is more prone to several types of bias related to preservation and field sampling. |