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Plant Exploitation Practices at a Minoan Upland Settlement: An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Karphi

Archaeological Institute of America·@meckstein·2 months ago
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*One of our 2025 Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship fellows, Carly Henkel, provides us with an update:* With the support of the 2025 Pomerance Fellowship I was able to complete an up-to-date archaeobotanical study for the post-Minoan (end of the Bronze Age) settlement of Karphi. This site occupies at a marginal, upland (c. 1100 m asl) location, which was primarily inhabited during the socially turbulent and increasingly arid LM IIIC period. The aim of archaeobotanical study is to expand upon previous work done by Scarry and Tickner (2020), exploring potential changes/adaptions to plant exploitation practices by this upland community at this time. The current archaeobotanical study took place over a three month period at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP-SCEC). The work involved both macrobotanical (fruits, nuts, grains and seeds) and microbotanical (phytolith) analysis.…

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