Claim · model-written summary
Rye was a major crop plant at Roman Iron Age Peelo.
- Taxon
- Secale cereale
Secale cerealee1 - Outcome
- major crop plantse1
- Setting
- Roman Iron Age Peeloe1
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Verbatim
e1“Rye (Secale cereale) and hulled barley (Hordeum vulgare) were major crop plants at Roman Iron Age Peelo”
Title
Roman Iron Age Plant Husbandry At Peelo, The Netherlands
W. Van Zeist; R.M. Palfenier-Vegter Palaeohistoria 33,34 (1991-1992) 2026. doi:10.1201/9781003761013-12
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Hulled barley was a major crop plant at Roman Iron Age Peelo.
- Observation Common oat was very likely grown at Peelo.
- Observation Broomcorn millet was of minor importance.
- Observation Flax was of minor importance.
- Observation No pulse-crop seeds were found in the seed record.
- Observation Weedy vegetations are well represented in the archaeological seed record.
- Observation A fair number of grassland species was demonstrated in the seed record.
- Observation Grassland acreage in the Peelo area was probably of limited extent.