| Title: |
Drying or parching of acorns and barley grains in the Early Iron age: carpological data from the Pyrenean site of « Abri Sous-les-Rideaux » (Lespugue, Haute Garonne) ; Séchage ou grillage de glands et d’orge au premier âge du Fer : données carpologiques du site pyrénéen de l’abri Sous-les-Rideaux (Lespugue, Haute Garonne) |
| Authors: |
Bouby, Laurent; Ruas, Marie-Pierre; San Juan - Foucher, Cristina; Foucher, Pascal |
| Contributors: |
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM); Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM); BioArchéologie, Interactions Sociétés Environnements (BioArch); Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Unite toulousaine d'archéologie et d'histoire (UTAH); Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES); École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Sous la direction de Muriel Gandelin |
| Source: |
Pêle-Mêle. Textes offerts à Jean Vaquer ; https://inrap.hal.science/hal-05175687 ; Sous la direction de Muriel Gandelin. Pêle-Mêle. Textes offerts à Jean Vaquer, Archives d'Ecologie Préhistorique, pp.85-100, 2024, 978-2-35842-035-8 |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Archives d'Ecologie Préhistorique |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Université de Montpellier: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
plantes alimentaires; séchage; grillage; Hordeum vulgare; Quercus sp; glands; Pyrénées; premier âge du Fer; carpologie; Archéobotanique; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Description: |
International audience ; The excavations undertaken in the « abri Sous-les-Rideaux », a rockshelter in the Pyrenean foothills at Lespugue (Haute Garonne), have made it possible to study charred seed assemblages associated with a combustion structure. Ceramic material and a direct radiocarbon dating of the seeds allow us to date the carpological assemblages to the beginning of the Early Iron Age (828-672 BCE). The study is based on two series of samples: 13 samples were water-sieved on site with 5 and 2 mm meshes and while 9 samples were hand flotated with 2 and 0.5 mm meshes. Thousands of macrobotanical remains allow us to identify at least 20 taxa. The spatial and stratigraphic distribution of the carpological types show the existence of several successive deposits. The lower level is composed of diffuse waste from cereal food products and cereal cleaning (hazelnut shell fragments, cereal chaff, weed seeds). At least two different assemblages are located above this first layer; the first one is composed of acorns (Quercus sp.) and the second of hulled barley caryopses (Hordeum vulgare). The presence of a few acorn pericarp bases and fragments of the embryos at an early stage of germination indicate that the structure was used to dry or parch acorns in order to stop their germination and probably facilitate storage. The purpose of the heat treatment applied to barley grains, which were still hulled, is uncertain. Parching was possibly aimed precisely at weakening the glumes to facilitate dehusking before milling or consumption. Naked wheat and millet grains are identified in less numbers and their relationship to the fire structure cannot be ascertained. Although the sampling does not allow a sufficient number of contexts to be documented to obtain a representative picture of the site plant economy, these results offer unique information on the resources and practices of cultivation and gathering in the central Pyrenees during Protohistory. ; Les fouilles entreprises dans l’abri Sous-les-Rideaux (Lespugue, Haute ... |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| Language: |
French |
| Availability: |
https://inrap.hal.science/hal-05175687; https://inrap.hal.science/hal-05175687v1/document; https://inrap.hal.science/hal-05175687v1/file/Sous-les-Rideaux-2024-Hommage_Vaquer.pdf |
| Rights: |
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B9C67D91 |
| Database: |
BASE |