Vegetation change during the Mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, south-west Ireland

Mighall, Tim; Timpany, Scott; Blackford, J.J.; Innés, James B.; O’Brien, Charlotte; O’Brien, William F.; Harrison, Stephan

doi:10.1007/s00334-007-0136-4

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“…A synthesis of research in the Killarney area and new pollen diagrams are provided by Mitchell and Cooney (2004), while Mighall and co-workers have carried out paleoecological investigations on the Mizen peninsula (Mighall and Lageard 1999;Mighall et al 2000Mighall et al , 2007, the main region for Bronze Age mining in Ireland (O'Brien 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland

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O’Connell

2008

Journal of the North Atlantic

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Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland

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O’Connell

2008

Journal of the North Atlantic

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“…• 5600-4300 BC, southwest Germany. The results of more than hundred archaeobotanical investigations from this region reveals that bitter vetch was one of the common grain legumes, with similar curves with a presence values in early Neolithic and Iron Ages (Rösch 1998 (Mighall et al 2008). • 3919-3905 BC-several wild vetches, such as tiny vetch (V. hirsuta (L.) Gray), narrow-leafed vetch and four-seed vetch (V. tetrasperma (L.) Schreb.…”

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Presence of vetches (Vicia spp.) in agricultural and wild floras of ancient Europe

Mikić

2016

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Vetches (Vicia spp.) were part of the everyday diet of the modern human Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers at the end of the last Ice Age. Among the major criteria to determine the domestication in vetches and other ancient grain legumes are nondehiscent pods, larger seed size and smooth seed coat. The seeds of bitter vetch [V. ervilia (L.) Willd.] were found among both the earliest findings of wild collected plants from Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic, from 12th millennium BC cal and the storages of domesticated crops of the Near East Neolithic. Vetches entered Europe in its south-east regions and progressed into its interior via Danube. Archaeological findings offer nice examples that confirm the importance vetches had in the primeval agriculture in Europe and its adjacent regions. Apart from the samples of cultivated vetches used either for food or feed or both, there is rich archaobotanical evidence on the wild and weedy vetch species in diverse European ecosystems. Recently the first known success has been obtained in the extraction of ancient DNA from charred bitter vetch seeds. The future research on this subject certainly must make a more detailed map of the paths of the vetch distribution over Europe and, especially, its long-term and essentially important ties with their domestication and distribution in Asia Minor, Near East and North Africa. The initiated research on the vetch ancient DNA should bring more light onto the individual steps of the earliest days of vetch crops. The preliminary historical linguistic analysis assessed two Proto-Indo-European roots associated with vetches, *erEg w (h)-denoting pea, and *weik-meaning to avoid, initially gave the Latin vincīre, meaning to bind, and then vicia, denoting vetches in general. This multidisciplinary approach will hopefully be a useful reminder how widespread and important vetches used to be, as well as a tool for their re-introduction as presently neglected crops into the contemporary European agriculture.

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“…Wet pasture/marsh indicators were present including Poaceae >35 μm, R. acetosa and P. lanceolata ; Cyperaceae, Galium ‐type and P. palustre type; together with indicators of disturbed ground, such as Chenopodiaceae and Apiaceae (Brown, Carpenter, & Walling, ). Coprophilous fungi Cercophora ‐type (HdV‐112) and Sordaria ‐type (HdV‐55A) were also recorded suggesting that herbivores grazed nearby (Mighall et al., ).…”

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“…Herbivores may have grazed pasture and/or wet meadow close by as Sordaria ‐type HdV‐55A also occurred. Sordaria ‐types HdV‐55A/B are commonly recorded during Mesolithic disturbance phases, suggesting the presence of dead wood and/or that animals were making use of openings in woodland (Mighall et al., ). Obligate coprophilous fungi, however, have not been recorded.…”

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A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Two Prehistoric Burnt Mound Sites in Northern Ireland

Wheeler

Timpany²,

Mighall

et al. 2016

Geoarchaeology

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This paper provides a summary of the palaeoenvironmental evidence from a spread of late Mesolithic burnt material and two late Neolithic to early Bronze Age burnt mounds. The burnt mounds were up to 10 m diameter, had an amorphous shape, and were consistently less than 0.8 m thick. Monoliths were collected from two sites, Ballygawley and Roughan, in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This provided an opportunity to use a detailed palaeoecological approach for the first time to investigate the use and function of burnt mounds. Pollen, non‐pollen palynomorphs, micro‐ and macroscopic charcoal were used to place these features within their environmental context, and to establish if such an approach could provide further insights into their function. The palynological results shared similar characteristics: high microscopic charcoal values, repetitive fluctuations in tree and shrub taxa, increased Sphagnum, and the presence of non‐pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) HdV‐114 and HdV‐146, all of which could be diagnostic indicators of burnt mounds in palynological records. While the data do not allow us to ascribe a specific function for the burnt mounds, their environmental setting is discussed. A “see‐saw” pattern of arboreal pollen, combined with the macroscopic charcoal data, indicate possible species selection and management of local woodland for fuelwood.

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Vegetation change during the Mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, south-west Ireland

Cited by 23 publications

References 22 publications

Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland

Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland

Presence of vetches (Vicia spp.) in agricultural and wild floras of ancient Europe

A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Two Prehistoric Burnt Mound Sites in Northern Ireland

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