L’environnement végétal de l’homme au Néolithique dans le sud-est de l’Espagne (Valence, Alicante) : première synthèse d’après l’analyse anthracologique

Olea europaea L. in the North Mediterranean Basin during the Pleniglacial and the Early–Middle Holocene

“…(28) and Cova del Llop (27), Olea is present from the beginning of the Neolithic sequence (c. 7500 cal. BP) along with other thermophilous taxa (Vernet et al, 1983;Badal et al, 1994), a situation also seen in the rest of the thermomediterranean level. This is the case of Los Murciélagos de Albuñol (23) and Río Palmones (17), located in the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, Vale Pincel I (20) at Alentejo (Carrión, 2005), Abrigo da Pena d'Água (14) in the Tajo valley (Figueiral, 1998) (Fig.…”

Recent, Late Pleistocene fragmentation shaped the phylogeographic structure of the European black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold)

“…Following its migration from Polar to Central and Southern European locations during the global cooling of the late Tertiary, black pine was then often found throughout the Pleistocene in charcoal and fossil records in the Mediterranean. From the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago) onwards and during the Pleistocene, it is associated with the sub-Mediterranean flora of Europe (Vernet et al 1983). P. nigra forests played an important ecological role during the Quaternary glacial and interglacial climatic fluctuations in the Western Mediterranean region (Vernet et al 1983).…”

Charcoal analysis and dendrology: data from archaeological sites in north-western France

“…Such measurements should be automated as much as possible to facilitate the acquisition of results on many charcoals. From this perspective, and following an initial study by Vernet et al (1983) on ring morphology in olive tree charcoals, Terral, 1999Terral, , 2002 used an eco-anatomical approach with morphometric analyses of wooden archaeological material to determine the origin of cultivation of olive trees and grapevines in the western Mediterranean region.…”