Preliminary Archaeobotanical Report on Plant Remains from South Abydos Settlement

Shams, Alaa (2022) Preliminary Archaeobotanical Report on Plant Remains from South Abydos Settlement. In: Aegyptus et Pannonia VII. Magyar-Egyiptomi Baráti Társaság, Ókori Egyiptomi Bizottság, Budapest, pp. 7-19. ISBN 9786156571014

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Abstract

Archaeobotany studies plant remains from archaeological sites to understand past human diet, food gathering and cultivation, and environmental change. The term encompasses macro- and micro-remains. This research is about studying archaeological plants from a settlement at South Abydos, dated to Naqada III A2 – Naqada III B / C periods. The actual site is situated around m to the south-west of the Seti I temple and 1250 m to the south-east of the royal tombs in Umm-el-Qaab, located about 75 m to the local north of the Early Dynastic cemetery at South Abydos, on the western edge of the El-Arab Village. It covers an area of around 150 m x 200 m. During fieldwork at the settlement, samples were taken for archaeobotanical analyses. All samples were processed using the barrel flotation method and then air-dried. On the first view, the samples recovered from the collected soil included cereals, small weeds and fruits. We just started to study plant remains from the site and I will focus in this paper on the methods that I used in this stage. Thus, I will focus in this paper on themethods appropriate for the first steps: how we obtain the plant remains, why this method is suitable for extracting the maximum material available to us.

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