Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology.

Cover -- Table of contens -- Preface -- 1 General Introduction -- 1.1 Plant taxonomy -- 1.1.1 Taxonomic ranks -- 1.1.2 Abbreviations -- 1.1.3 Synonyms and type identifications -- 1.1.4 Naming of cultivated plants -- 1.1.5 Plant names in written sources -- 1.1.6 Vernacular names of common crops -- 1.1.7 Genetic research -- 1.2 Plant ecology -- 1.2.1 Seed production and seed predation -- 1.2.2 Seed dispersal -- 1.2.3 Environmental conditions -- 1.2.4 Water stress -- 1.2.5 Agricultural practices -- 1.3 Flora and vegetation -- 1.3.1 Landscape, flora, and vegetation -- 1.3.2 Flora -- 1.3.3 Vegetation -- 1.4 Subfossil plant remains -- 1.4.1 Biomolecules -- 1.4.2 Phytoliths -- 1.4.3 Spores and pollen -- 1.4.4 Seeds and fruits -- 2 Palynology -- 2.1 The archaeobotanical archive -- 2.1.1 Dispersal of spores and pollen -- 2.1.2 Pollen precipitation -- 2.1.3 Peat Formation -- 2.1.4 Sampling and microscopic analysis -- 2.2 Vegetation reconstruction -- 2.2.1 Pollen diagram -- 2.2.2 Anthropogenic pollen indicators -- 2.2.3 Pollen precipitation and vegetation -- 2.3 Pollen morphology -- 2.3.1 Anatomy and morphology of pollen and spores -- 2.3.2 Glossary of terms -- 2.3.3 Atlas of spores, pollen, and algae -- 3 Non-woody macro-remains -- 3.1 The archaeobotanical archive -- 3.1.1 Origin and taphonomy -- 3.1.2 Sampling -- 3.2 Morphology of fruits and seeds -- 3.2.1 Morphology of fruits -- 3.2.2 Fruit types -- 3.2.3 Morphology of seeds -- 3.2.4 Subfossil seeds, fruits, and threshing remains -- 3.2.5 Cereals -- 3.2.6 Pulses -- 3.2.7 Oil and fibre crops -- 3.2.8 Seed atlas -- 4 Vegetation history of the Netherlands -- 4.1 The Late Glacial -- 4.1.1 General overview -- 4.1.2 The Older Dryas -- 4.1.3 The Allerød -- 4.1.4 The Younger Dryas -- 4.2 The Holocene -- 4.2.1 General overview -- 4.2.2 The Preboreal (10 300-8800 BP) -- 4.2.3 The Boreal (8800-7500 BP).

4.2.4 The Atlanticum (7500-5000 BP) -- 4.2.5 The Subboreal (5000-2800 BP) -- 4.2.6 The Subatlanticum (2800 BP to present) -- 4.2.7 Case study -- 5 Food economy -- 5.1 Transition to farming -- 5.1.1 Modelling the dawn of farming -- 5.1.2 Domestication -- 5.2 Reconstruction of the diet -- 5.2.1 The food spectrum -- 5.2.2 Cereals -- 5.2.3 Pulses -- 5.2.4 Oil crops -- 5.2.5 Vegetables and fruits -- 5.2.6 Case studies -- 6 Fuel -- 6.1 Woody plants -- 6.2 Non-woody plants -- 7 Appendixes -- 7.1 Chronology of the Near East -- 7.2 Chronology of ancient Egypt -- 8 Literature -- 8. 1 Taxonomy -- 8. 2 Ecology -- 8. 3 Flora and vegetation -- 8. 4 Identification -- 8. 5 Spores and pollen -- 8. 6 Fruits, seeds, and mosses -- 8. 7 Vegetation history -- 8. 8 Food economy -- 8. 9 Fuel -- 8. 10 Additional references cited -- 9 Indices -- 9.1 Taxonomic and syntaxonomic index -- 9.2 Subject index.

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