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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Language: | English |
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Routledge
2024
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