CARPODATA : archaeobotany database (2020)

Available

Database

Licence : CC BY-NC-SA doi:10.25666/DATAOSU-2020-06-26

Data creators : CNRS Délégation Centre-Est, Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive, Caroline Schaal ^[1] ^[2]

Data collector : Caroline Schaal ^[1]

Related person : Raphaël Melior ^[2], Sylvie Damy ^[1] ^[2], Jean-Daniel Tissot ^[1] ^[2]

[1] : Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur)

[2] : Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers - Terre, Homme, Environnement, Temps, Astronomie (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur)

Description :

CARPODATA database allows the storage and retrieval of all raw data related to the archaeobotanical analyses (plant macro-remains) of archaeological sites.

Disciplines :

ecology (applied biology - ecology), plant sciences (applied biology - ecology), archaeology (humanities), humanities, multidisciplinary (humanities), environmental sciences (sciences of the universe)

Keywords :

archeobotany, bioarchaeology, carpology, ethnobotany, palaeoenvironment, paleobotany, paleoecology

General metadata

Data acquisition date : from 1998 ongoing

Data acquisition methods :

Reference data :
Carpology protocol: sampling, sieving, sorting under binocular loupe, identification using a reference collection.

Update periodicity : as needed

Language : French (fra)

Formats : text/csv, text/x-sql

Audience : University: licence, University: master, Research

Coverages

Spatial coverage :

Europe: latitude between 51° 44' 23" N and 42° 10' 42" N, longitude between 6° 13' 21" W and 8° 22' 1" E

Time coverage :

Holocène

Taxonomic coverage :

Principaux taxons cultivés

Genus
Triticum (Wheat)
Species
Linum usitatissimum (Common flax), Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy), Hordeum vulgare (Barley), Vitis vinifera (Grape)