Uses of wood and tree management in the Bronze Age Aegean (Greece): the cases of Akrotiri on Thera and Heraion on Samos
Abstract
The present study deals with wood charcoal macroremains recoveredfrom the archaeological sites of Akrotiri, Thera and Heraion, Samos. The mainobjectives of this thesis are to examine first the transformation of the vegetationin the surroundings of the aforementioned sites overtime and then to account forthe reasons behind these changes; finally the taxa preferred by the inhabitants inthe construction of their buildings are scrutinized to elucidate the reasons fortheir choices.The samples studied from Akrotiri date from the Early Cycladic to theLate Cycladic I periods, while those of Heraion are from assemblages datedbetween the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze periods, as well as the Archaic andthe Roman periods. In both cases, the anthracological diagrams indicate atransformation of the natural landscape towards a more controlled environment,at least from the Middle Bronze period onwards. The inhabitants exploited thesurrounding vegetation to collect fuel wood and probably edible fru ...
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