Resumen
Plants were a primary source of raw materials for crafting -such as wood, bark, stems, leaves, fibres, or resins amongst others- and were ubiquitous in all the spheres of life. But our knowledge on how past people interacted with their surrounding plant worlds through craftwork is biased and partial. In the framework of the PLANTCRAFT Project we will propose a multi-analytical methodology to unravel the environmental information stored in plant-based crafts, focused on case studies of Northwest Iberia dated between 2,200 BCE and 500 CE. One of the main shortcomings identified is the absence of an integrated and standardised science-based methodology for producing environmental information from plant material culture. The PLANTCRAFT project will combine standard, largely tested, systematic methods for studying plant remains – such as archaeobotany or other analytical techniques-, with innovative digital technologies. This methodological approach will bring together the study of charred and mineral replaced plant macro-remains, and other less common proxies to address the study of plant craftworks. This protocol aims to integrate all kinds of archaeological evidence related to crafting plant materials to obtain environmental information, and to produce accessible, shareable, comparable, and reusable data related to plant-based objects and structures.
Palabras clave
Archaeology. Archaeobotany. Wood. Craft. Bronze Age. Iron Age. Roman Period.