Sexy Plants: The Influence That Plant Sexual Strategies Have On The Modern Macrofossil Assemblage At Meijendel (Wassenaar) and the Application To An Archaeological Context

For a project, sediment samples of a lake located in the Libellenvallei, Meijendel (Wassenaar), were taken throughout the winter. Botanic macrofossils were extracted from these taken samples. These macrofossils got identified by multiple students of the University of Leiden. Taphonomic processes were the main focus of this project, and the choice was made to focus on the sexual strategies and the lifecycles of the found taxa. Sexual strategies can be considered a key element when it comes to the forming of a macrofossil assemblage. That can grant researchers plenty of information. The present can serve as a good indication of taphonomic processes that happened in the past. The mission of the project at Meijendel was to better understand the environmental context of archaeological sites. Knowing the taphonomic processes of a modern macrofossil assemblage and having good indications of how these macrofossils ended up at this location, can be a good source of information for less...Show moreFor a project, sediment samples of a lake located in the Libellenvallei, Meijendel (Wassenaar), were taken throughout the winter. Botanic macrofossils were extracted from these taken samples. These macrofossils got identified by multiple students of the University of Leiden. Taphonomic processes were the main focus of this project, and the choice was made to focus on the sexual strategies and the lifecycles of the found taxa. Sexual strategies can be considered a key element when it comes to the forming of a macrofossil assemblage. That can grant researchers plenty of information. The present can serve as a good indication of taphonomic processes that happened in the past. The mission of the project at Meijendel was to better understand the environmental context of archaeological sites. Knowing the taphonomic processes of a modern macrofossil assemblage and having good indications of how these macrofossils ended up at this location, can be a good source of information for less modern archaeological sites. The present can help us with making conclusions of vegetations of the past. Observations of taphonomic processes at different archaeological sites can allow predictive models to be constructed that can show palaeovegetation reconstruction. These predictive models are the reason why this research can be considered valuable for future archaeological research.Show less

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Sexy Plants: The Influence That Plant Sexual Strategies Have On The Modern Macrofossil Assemblage At Meijendel (Wassenaar) and the Application To An Archaeological Context