Dear Lucie, is it one seed/fruit? I seems to have some sculpture but
I'm not sure if it is any seed at all. Can't it be a fragment of bark?
Or some other part of plant? Charring sometimes can change specimen
very strongly and it is visibly badly damaged. Very difficult.
Best wishes
Aldona
2009/7/8 Lucie Martin <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear list members,
> Here is a seed that I, as well as many of my colleagues, can't identify.
> It concerns charred seeds from a neolithic site situated in the Northern
> French Alps at
> an altitude of 1800 m.
> I would be pleased with any of your suggestions!
>
> Kind regards
>
> Lucie Martin
>
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