Roman to early medieval cereal farming in the Rhineland: weeds, tillage, and the spread of the mouldboard plough

A new model for gauging levels of soil disturbance (i.e. tillage) by analysing arable weed assemblages from archaeological contexts is applied to an extensive Roman-to-early medieval archaeobotanical sequence from the region west of Cologne. It tests the hypothesis that increasing use of the mouldbo...

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Main Authors: Hamerow, HF, Zerl, T, Kropp, C, Bogaard, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2024