Plant remains from the early modern garden of the manor of Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland: an alternative sampling method for macrofossil analysis

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• 作者：Teija Alanko ; Markku Oinonen ; Leif Schulman
• 关键词：Archaeobotany ; Garden history ; Macrofossil ; Sampling ; AMS radiocarbon dates
• 刊名：Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：24
• 期：5
• 页码：571-585
• 全文大小：3,244 KB
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• 作者单位：Teija Alanko (1)
  Markku Oinonen (1)
  Leif Schulman (1)
  
  1. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 7, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geology
  Anthropology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1617-6278

文摘

Garden history can be investigated through archaeobotanical research. This paper discusses the plant remains which were obtained from the soil of the historical garden of the manor of Kumpula in Helsinki, Finland. This study was an experiment to enable macrofossil analysis without archaeological excavations. The aim was to develop an alternative method for sampling for macrofossils also including radiocarbon dates, and to evaluate the usability, cost and functionality of this method. The character of the garden was also considered. The soil samples for macrofossil analysis were collected from the garden from three to eight different levels using an end-filling open-ended sampler. A total of 38 one litre soil samples from eight different pits yielded 2,036 identified macrofossils, mostly seeds. These comprised 63 different taxa, of which 26 were identified to species level with certainty. Taxa with more than 25 seeds found were Chelidonium majus, Chenopodium spp., Juncus spp., Rubus idaeus, Sambucus racemosa and Urtica dioica. Important species were Secale cereale and Hordeum vulgare. Nine AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained from macrofossil material from four different pits, giving results ranging from 1120-20?cal bc to cal ad 1680-930 for charred wood, and from cal ad 1450-640 to 1640-930 for charred grains of Secale cereale and seeds of Chenopodium album. The sampling method proved to work reasonably well, considering the limitations of the sample size.