1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	15
Practicum	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

COURSE CONTENT
1. Introduction: what is archaeobotany?
2. Plant domestication.
3. Cereals.
4. Pulses. Oil crops.
5. Fibre crops. Traditional growing and processing the flax.
6. Fruit trees and nuts: beginning of cultivation and overview of the species.
7. Useful plants collected from the wild.
8. Condiments. Vegetables. Dyes.
9. Indicator plants.
10. Collecting and processing the samples.
11. Wood analysis.
12. Pollen analysis.
13. Phytolith analysis.
14. Applying the archaeobotanical analyses: the case studies.


EXERCISES
1. Cereals.
2. Pulses. Fibre crops.
3. Oil crops. The oldest method of extracting the oil.
4. Fruit trees and nuts.
5. Useful plants collected from the wild.
6. Condiments. Vegetables.
7. Dyes. Textile dyeing.
8. Indicator plants.
9. Analysis of the laboratory archaeobotanical samples and results.
10. Processing the samples from archaeological site: dry and water screening.
11. Plant remains extraction and identification.
12. Interpretation the archaeobotanical results from archaeological site.

1. Paleoethnobotany : a handbook of procedures. Academic Press, Sandiego., Pearsall D. M., Academic Press, Sandiego., 2000.
2. Domestication of Plants in the Old World (4th ed.)., Zohary D., Hopf M., Weiss E., Oxford University Press, New York., 2012.

Izborni kolegiji - Regular - Botany