{"product_id":"9789491431029","title":"Digital Atlas of Economic Plants in Archaeology","description":"The third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presents illustrations of subfossil remains of plants with economic value. These plant remains mainly derive from excavations in the Old World (Europe, Western Asia and North Africa) that the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin) and the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) have conducted or participated in. Plant material is usually very perishable, but can nevertheless be preserved in archaeological sites if the biological decay of the material is blocked. Many plant remains are discovered during excavations in carbonized form, where despite having been in contact with fire, they have not been completely reduced to ash. Extremely dry climatic conditions, like those in Egypt, can also preserve plant material in a completely dessicated condition. Most of the economically valuable plants illustrated here have been carbonized or desiccated. So this atlas links up very well with the Digital Atlas of Economic Plants.Like the other atlasses, this atlas is a combination of a book and a website.\u003cb\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/b\u003eJust as in part two of the series, this part will not only include illustrations of seeds and fruits, but also of other plant parts. The resulting variety in seed and fruit forms will be illustrated by examples from different excavations. To support their identification and determination, also pictures of recent plants and relevant plant parts have been included.\u003cb\u003eThe Website:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To supplement the photographs, the website will also include morphometric measurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits. These measurements can be compared with own measurements of the plant taxa in question.\u003cb\u003eSummary:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlant families:\u003c\/i\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlant species (Taxa):\u003c\/i\u003e 191 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhotographs:\u003c\/i\u003e 773 photographs of subfossil plant parts, 1137 photographs of recent plants and plant parts \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/i\u003e English and 15 indices (scientific plant name, pharmaceutical plant name, English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Arab, Arab in transliteration, Turkish, Chinese, Pinyin (Chinese in transliteration), Hindi, Sanskrit, and Malayalam)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePurchase\u003c\/i\u003e of the book grants access to the protected parts of the websites of the project.","brand":"Barkhuis Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042389901552,"sku":"9789491431029","price":277.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789491431029_p0.jpg?v=1763676722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789491431029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}