Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology Evangelia Pişkin · Arkadiusz Marciniak Marta Bartkowiak Editors Environmental Archaeology Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology Series editor Jelmer Eerkens University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6090 Evangelia Pişkin • Arkadiusz Marciniak Marta Bartkowiak Editors Environmental Archaeology Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Editors Evangelia Pişkin Arkadiusz Marciniak Department of Settlement Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Middle East Technical University Adam Mickiewicz University Ankara, Turkey Poznań, Poland Marta Bartkowiak Institute of Archaeology Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland ISSN 1568-2722 Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology ISBN 978-3-319-75081-1 ISBN 978-3-319-75082-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75082-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018936129 © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Preface In September 2014 at the 20th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held in Istanbul, Turkey, we organised a session entitled “Environmental Archaeology and Archaeology: Divided we Stand (still?)”. The inspiration for this stemmed from our concern and interest in a variety of issues. One of the most important was the actual position of what is termed “environmental archaeology” within the field of what one may call “mainstream archaeology”. This issue was tackled before, and perhaps the book with most prominent expression is the one edited by Umberto Albarella back in 2001, entitled Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose. There, the definition of the discipline and indeed the very usefulness/uselessness of the term itself were intensively questioned by several researchers. The issue of what environmental archaeology is has also been discussed briefly or extensively in various other works and in almost every “handbook” pub- lished on the matter. This seems to have been a long and hard debate without con- sensus being reached yet. Next to this was the consideration and concern with new developments in the field including a proliferation of new techniques, methods and approaches that have introduced a range of possibilities next to traditional subjects, which surely is a certain achievement; nevertheless their technical concepts are sometimes difficult to comprehend, evaluate and make useful. A further inquiry was the integration of vari- ous lines of evidence to produce a stronger basis for archaeological interpretation. Environmental archaeology today encompasses an ever-widening suite of subdis- ciplines. “Environmental archaeologists” of whatever field of specialisation are rou- tinely called upon to collaborate in archaeological projects under the fashionable “interdisciplinary approach” umbrella. Despite its long history, exceptional projects and numerous such studies addressing wider issues of archaeological research, the discipline often remains to be seen as an auxiliary undertaking aimed at supporting “mainstream” archaeology. It is also not unusual that different specialists work along- side with each other but the results they produce have hardly any reference to other specialised analysis, despite the fact that they address similar issues. Nevertheless, the need to collaborate and communicate is apparent today more than ever. v vi Preface Here, we wanted to refresh the discussion and touch on what the current state of the affair is after many years of environmental archaeology theory and practice. This book contains a selection of papers, some of them presented at that meeting, some other written for this volume, discussing the position of the discipline and its practitioners from various standpoints as well as some case studies targeting to showcase that environmental archaeology is nothing else but archaeology. Ankara, Turkey Evangelia Pişkin Contents Environmental Archaeology: What Is in a Name?. 1 Evangelia Pişkin and Marta Bartkowiak Environmental Archaeology: The End of the Road? ������������������������������������ 15 Umberto Albarella Changing Perspectives: Exploring Ways and Means of Collaborating in Environmental Archaeology . 19 G. V. Campbell, C. Barnett, W. Carruthers, L. Pearson, R. Pelling, and D. N. Smith Environmental Archaeology in Southern Scandinavia . 35 Kurt J. Gron and Peter Rowley-Conwy A Man and a Plant: Archaeobotany . 75 Maria Lityńska-Zając Bridging Archaeology and Genetics . 111 Ophélie Lebrasseur, Hannah Ryan, and Cinthia Abbona Wood Charcoal Analysis in Archaeology . 133 Ceren Kabukcu Palaeoethnobotanical Contributions to Human-Environment Interaction �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 155 Gary W. Crawford Ethnoarchaeology as a Means of Improving Integration: An Ethnozooarchaeological Study from Cyprus and Its Contribution to the Integration of Zooarchaeology with Archaeobotany and Other Lines of Archaeological Evidence ������������������������������������������������ 181 Angelos Hadjikoumis vii viii Contents Exploring the Wetland: Integrating the Fish and Plant Remains into a Case Study from Tianluoshan, a Middle Neolithic Site in China . 199 Ying Zhang All or Nothing: Spatial Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Record Based on the Integration of Artifactual, Ecofactual, and Contextual Data at the Medieval Site of Komana . 229 Mustafa Nuri Tatbul Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 247 Contributors Cinthia Abbona Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK C. Barnett Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading, UK Marta Bartkowiak Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland G. V. Campbell Historic England, Research Group, Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, UK W. Carruthers Sawmills House, Mid Glamorgan, UK Gary W. Crawford Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada Kurt J. Gron Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK Angelos Hadjikoumis UMR 7209, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique, CNRS, Muséum National d’ Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France Ceren Kabukcu University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, Liverpool, UK Ophélie Lebrasseur Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, Oxford, UK Maria Lityńska-Zając The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland L. Pearson Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcester, UK R. Pelling Historic England, Research Group, Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, UK ix x Contributors Evangelia Pişkin Department of Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Peter Rowley-Conwy Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK Hannah Ryan Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, Oxford, UK D. N. Smith Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Mustafa Nuri Tatbul ANAMED-GABAM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2017–2018), Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey Ying Zhang School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China About the Editors Evangelia Pişkin received her PhD from Leicester University, UK. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Her work focuses on zooarchaeological studies. She has taken part in more than 20 excavations and various research projects funded by national and international bodies such as the British Academy, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Wenner-Gren Foundation and own university-funded projects. Arkadiusz Marciniak holds PhD from the University of Poznań, Poland, where he currently works