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ficaria tubers or even unpublished finds and about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
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Dr. Stefanie Klooß
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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Labor für Archäobotanik
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Prof. Dr. Wiebke Kirleis
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Christian-Albrechts-University
Kiel
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