caa a22 4500 44535903X CHVBK 20180317142909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00334-011-0301-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00334-011-0301-7 Moss caulking of boats in upper French Rhône and Saône (Eastern France) from the 3rd to the 20th century and the use of Neckera crispa Hedwig [Elektronische Daten] [Arne Saatkamp, Marc Guyon, Marc Philippe] The use of moss material to make boats watertight (caulking) has been a widespread practice in Europe, with records dating back to the Bronze Age. In this article we report the bryophyte assemblages from fifteen boats, which have been conserved as wrecks in the rivers of Upper Rhône and Saône near Lyons, France. The assemblages vary according to their composition, with Neckera crispa Hedwig being one of the dominant species overall. Following ancient technical descriptions we performed experimental collections from bark and rocks in the Jura Mountains. Comparing these to the archaeological records revealed that most of the mosses were probably of bark origin and were collected in base rich areas. Our data is discussed in the context of archaeological caulking in Western Europe. While in much of Europe N. crispa strongly decreased as a caulking material from the 14th century onwards, it remained much used in our study area. This is probably due to the persistence of suitable forests in the Jura mountains. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Bryophytes nationallicence Boat wreck nationallicence Epiphytes nationallicence Moss macro-remains nationallicence Saatkamp Arne Institut Méditerranéen d'Écologie et de Paléoécologie IMEP IRD UMR CNRS 6116, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, FST Saint-Jérôme Case 462, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France aut Guyon Marc INRAP, Région Rhône-Alpes—Auvergne, Centre Archéologique Régional de Bron, 12, rue Louis Maggiorini, 69500, Bron, France aut Philippe Marc UMR5125 (PEPS) du CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Darwin A, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France aut Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/4(2011-07-01), 293-304 0939-6314 20:4<293 2011 20 334 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0301-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0301-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saatkamp Arne Institut Méditerranéen d'Écologie et de Paléoécologie IMEP IRD UMR CNRS 6116, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, FST Saint-Jérôme Case 462, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guyon Marc INRAP, Région Rhône-Alpes—Auvergne, Centre Archéologique Régional de Bron, 12, rue Louis Maggiorini, 69500, Bron, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Philippe Marc UMR5125 (PEPS) du CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Darwin A, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/4(2011-07-01), 293-304 0939-6314 20:4<293 2011 20 334 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer