caa a22 4500 445359196 CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00334-011-0293-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00334-011-0293-3 Plant offerings from Roman cremations in northern Italy: a review [Elektronische Daten] [Mauro Rottoli, Elisabetta Castiglioni] This paper reviews the remains of plants (cereals, pulses, fruit and vegetables) used as offerings in cremation burials in northern Italian Roman cemeteries between the 1st century b.c. and the 3rd century a.d. The custom of burning plant offerings on the funeral pyre was widespread in the Iron Age, but in the Roman Empire such offerings became more frequent and abundant, with fruit being prevalent and also the recurrent use of various prepared foods (bread, cakes and suchlike). In each cemetery this general scheme exhibits variations probably due to individual, social, ritual and economic differences, but this impression must be still confirmed. The absence of a systematic sampling strategy does not permit a statistical approach to offering data. The aim of this article is to encourage archaeologists and archaeobotanists to pay more attention to methodology in sampling. This would also permit careful comparison of the archaeobotanical data with archaeological, anthropological and historical information and that from written sources. The consistently recorded presence of fruit in cemeteries makes it possible to investigate some aspects of the introduction, cultivation and marketing of certain food plants in northern Italy. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Plant offerings nationallicence Cemetery nationallicence Cremations nationallicence Roman period nationallicence Northern Italy nationallicence Fruit nationallicence Rottoli Mauro Laboratorio di Archeobiologia, Musei Civici di Como, Piazza Medaglie d'Oro 1, 22100, Como, Italy aut Castiglioni Elisabetta Laboratorio di Archeobiologia, Musei Civici di Como, Piazza Medaglie d'Oro 1, 22100, Como, Italy aut Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/5(2011-09-01), 495-506 0939-6314 20:5<495 2011 20 334 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0293-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-011-0293-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rottoli Mauro Laboratorio di Archeobiologia, Musei Civici di Como, Piazza Medaglie d'Oro 1, 22100, Como, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castiglioni Elisabetta Laboratorio di Archeobiologia, Musei Civici di Como, Piazza Medaglie d'Oro 1, 22100, Como, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer-Verlag 20/5(2011-09-01), 495-506 0939-6314 20:5<495 2011 20 334 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 107457326 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer