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Hi Manon, is it complete? Could be the lower third of Trapa natans. Was there a lake around? Cheers, Simone "<Manon Savard>" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: > > ------_=_NextPart_002_01C69AED.693148FC > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Dear all, > =20 > 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? > =20 > Thanks in advance, > =20 > Manon > =20 > Manon Savard > Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec > [log in to unmask] > > ------_=_NextPart_002_01C69AED.693148FC > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML = > DIR=3Dltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face=3D'Arial' = > color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Please find attached a mystery = > seed/fruit =0A= > (upper right on the picture) from a late antique context from a = > site in =0A= > Albania. It's a working picture taken on site with a normal = > digital =0A= > camera, but, to give an idea of scale, the seed on the higher left is a =0A= > peach-type stone and the other seeds are fragments of olive = > stones. So =0A= > far, preliminary analyses have revealed plants commonly found for that =0A= > period/area: wheat, legumes, olives, grapes, etc. The reverse side of = > the =0A= > mystery specimen is broken. It looks very familiar, yet, I can't = > put a =0A= > name on it. Any idea anyone?</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Manon</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Manon Savard</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec</FONT></DIV>=0A= > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A =0A= > href=3D"mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A></FONT= > ></DIV></BODY></HTML> > ------_=_NextPart_002_01C69AED.693148FC-- > -- Dr. S. Riehl Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen Institut fuer Ur- und Fruehgeschichte Archaeobotanik Burgsteige 11 D-72070 Tuebingen Tel +49 (0)7071 2978915 http://www.cuminum.de/archaeobotany/