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Dear colleagues, we would like to know if anybody has found (charred) tubers of lesser celandine - /Ranunculus ficaria/ / /Ficaria verna /in archaeological samples. We have found a lot of tubers of /Ranunculus ficaria/ in an Early Neolithic settlement layer beneath a megalithic grave from Denmark (more than 100). Since we were aware of this kind of material we recognized it in low amounts also in samples of other Neolithic sites of northern Germany and Denmark. All our /Ranunculus/ tubers finds are charred material. I add some photos of the charred tubers finds. We now wonder, if it is a special remain in Neolithic samples and if it was used for consumption. We know the literature given by the webpage http://archaeobotany.dept.shef.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Tubers_-_Introduction But we would be very happy if anybody could give us more hints on publications concerning archaeological finds of /Ranunculus ficaria/ tubers or even unpublished finds and about possible uses of this plant part. Thanks you for your efforts! Kind regards, Stefanie Klooß, Elske Fischer and Wiebke Kirleis -- Dr. Stefanie Klooß Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Email: [log in to unmask] Tel.: 0049-(0)431 / 880 3374 DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 1400 "Frühe Monumentalität und Soziale Differenzierung" http://www.monument.ufg.uni-kiel.de/en/the-projects/differenzierung-von-landwirtschaft-und-umwelt/ -- Elske Fischer Labor für Archäobotanik Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im RP Stuttgart Fischersteig 9 78343 Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen -- Prof. Dr. Wiebke Kirleis Professor for Environmental Archaeology Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes/ Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology letters: Olshausenstrasse 40 | D-24098 Kiel | Germany parcels: Olshausenstrasse 40 | D-24118 Kiel | Germany office:Johanna-Mestorf-Strasse 2-6 | D-24118 Kiel | Germany Phone: 0049 (0)431/880-3173 Fax: 0049 (0)431/880-7300