Dear Laura,
Chenopodium seeds are present in every! Danish excavation, often in uncharred preservation condition. The botanical finds of more than 150 Danish sites are registered in the archaeobotanical database of the Danish Nationalmuseum (ARBOREG) that David Robinson and myself have built up. You might contact the persons that are now in charge of the database in order to get access to the data.
Hans Helbæk has in 1960 published a short article: Comment on Chenopodium album as a food plant in prehistory. Bericht des Geobotanischen Institutes der Eidg. TEchn. Hochschule, Stiftung Rübel, 31. Heft 1959, Zürich 1960, 16-19.
There is also a nice booklet in German language from Andreas Emmerling-Skala (2005): "Sultan der Gemüsegärten"? - der Weisse Gänsefuss (Chenopodium album L.) als Nahrungspflanze.
And of course the great work of Bruce Smith :-).
Good luck!
Sabine
Dr. Sabine Karg
External lecturer
University of Copenhagen
SAXO Institute, Archaeology
Karen Blixens Vej 4
DK 2300 Copenhagen S
TEL. (0045) 20 76 44 12
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Emne: Chenopodium Album Project
Dear colleagues,
We are currently working on a project looking at the presence of
Chenopodium album and its interpretation in the archaeological record in
Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia from the Neolithic into Late
Roman Republican period. As we are in the initial stages of this
project, we are creating a database of contexts in which Chenopodium has
been found, the amount of remains these contexts produced and the
relationship these remains have with other plant remains.
We would be grateful to those who would be willing to share any
unpublished data or to point us toward any of the more obscure
publications which have Chenopodium album among their finds. All data
gathered by this project will be freely available to the scholarly
community. The project is sponsored by the Undergraduate Research
Opportunity Program at the University of Michigan.
All the Best,
Laura Motta, Ryan Hughes and James Reslier-Wells
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