AePVII_AlaaShams

Alaa Shams  
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt
Preliminary Archaeobotanical Report on Plant Remains from South Abydos Settlement   
DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePVII-2022-7-1
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Aegyptus et Pannonia VII, Acta Symposii anno 2021, Plants and Health from Ancient Egypt. to the Present Day.
Proceedings of the Conference held between 14th and 16th October 2021, Budapest; ed. by Hedvig Győry.
Published by The Ancient Egyptian Committee of the Hungarian-Egyptian Friendship Society, Budapest 2022, ISBN: 978-615-6571-01-4; DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePVII-2022  
Soft cover. No Jacket. 1.st Edition. 6+338 pages (24x17), with colour pictures.

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.