<Manon Savard> schrieb:
> Dear all,
>
> Please find attached a mystery seed/fruit (upper right on the picture)
> from a late antique context from a site in Albania. It's a working
> picture taken on site with a normal digital camera, but, to give an
> idea of scale, the seed on the higher left is a peach-type stone and
> the other seeds are fragments of olive stones. So far, preliminary
> analyses have revealed plants commonly found for that period/area:
> wheat, legumes, olives, grapes, etc. The reverse side of the mystery
> specimen is broken. It looks very familiar, yet, I can't put a name
> on it. Any idea anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Manon
>
> Manon Savard
> Université du Québec
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Dear Manon,
it should be the distal part of a pine cone scale (Pinus pinea??).
all the best,
Felix
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