Bioarchaeological Characteristics of the Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Consumed at Different Parts of the Early Medieval Settlement Agglomeration of Mikulčice-Kopčany (9th-10th Century AD, Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081758:_____/25:00570182 RIV/67985831:_____/25:00570182

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2023.2176613" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2023.2176613</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2176613" target="_blank" >10.1080/14614103.2023.2176613</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bioarchaeological Characteristics of the Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Consumed at Different Parts of the Early Medieval Settlement Agglomeration of Mikulčice-Kopčany (9th-10th Century AD, Czech Republic)

Original language description

Archaeological hypotheses about the functioning of agriculture in the Great Moravian period in Central Europe are based primarily on the evaluation of artefacts or the character of the built structures in the vicinity of the central sites. Thanks to the introduction of new bioarchaeological methods, in particular isotope and archaeobotanical analyses, into archaeological research, it has been possible to better assess the subsistence strategies at Mikulčice-Kopčany. In this study, carbon and nitrogen isotopic values were measured in 39 samples of sown wheat recovered from four areas of the agglomeration with potentially distinct socio-economic statuses. The isotopic results were interpreted in the framework of archaeobotanical findings regarding the spectra of consumed crops, metrics of the grains and field weed analysis from the individual areas. Isotopic analyses of charred bread wheat characterise the locations where the fields were situated as moderately to well-watered, with the soils either naturally rich with a high contribution of organic nitrogen or with a medium to high rate of manuring. The results presented in this study point to the different agricultural strategies of people living in different areas of the Mikulčice-Kopčany, and suggest the underestimation of previously reported socio-economic differences in diet within the Great Moravian population .

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-13265S" target="_blank" >GA19-13265S: Refining the dietary reconstruction of past populations at the example of medieval Moravia</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmenal Archaeology

ISSN

1461-4103

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000934456200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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