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Zur Kulturpflanzennutzung imByzantinischenReich unter besondererBerücksichtigung archäobotanischerUntersuchungen in Caričin Grad(Justiniana Prima)
Plants are of great importance in everyday human life, serving not only as sources of food, but also as a source of raw materials, building materials, fuel or feed for domestic animals. Different plant spectra can therefore provide insights into people's everyday lives, their cultural preferences or environmental conditions. The study deals with crop use in the Byzantine Empire based on archaeobotanical data and has two main foci: on the one hand, the archaeobotanical analysis of macroremains from the early Byzantine city of Caričin Grad in southern Serbia, on the basis of which the diet of the urban population as well as agricultural practices are reconstructed. On the other hand, a literature-based supra-regional and diachronic overview of crop use in the Byzantine Empire (395-1453) is given. In the evaluation at the regional level, characteristic features of crop use of each region and the respective epochs are elaborated against the historical background and the prevailing environmental conditions and then transferred into a supra-regional and diachronic overview.
