Contaminated plant-foods from the tomb of Tutankhamun: A new interpretive system

摘要: Abstract The unexpected presence of numerous and diverse vegetal contaminants in recently discovered samples plant remains from the tomb Tutankhamun (1325 BC), stimulated development a new analytical method for distinguishing principal Egyptian stored plant-food species ordinary weed-species even cases where these species' were more abundant than those food species. Furthermore, additional levels allow us to distinguish seeds fruits which arrived through cross-storage or cross-processing contamination rather field contamination. Whereas Hillman's (1984a, Plants Ancient Man. Studies Paleoethno-botany, pp. 127–154, A. Bathema) A D classifications concerned primarily with identifying classes crop product represented by (or in) archaeological (and thence agricultural activities generated them), this E I system analysis extends include explicit identification source(s) various present within any one products. thus further refines interpretation sample composition terms past human all was recovered storage context.