Botanical aspects of the agricultural economy at Uppåkra and surrounding settlements

• The comprehensive prehistoric settlement Uppåkra, lasting over a millennium,raises questions on how food supplies and local communities were agricultu­rally organized. Recent investigations of archaeobotanical remains from theregional center Uppåkra and several surrounding settlements have contribu­ted to new aspects of their agricultural relations. New patterns in consump­tion show that through its development of garden cultivation, Uppåkra wasa center of innovation in the Scanian Iron Age society also in respect to plantproduce. Consumption of staple crop produce can, on the contrary, be seenas an adaptation to the local agricultural production. Whether or not its roleas a regional center contributed to agricultural changes is discussed in termsof production and consumption of cultivated plants. Similarly, whether ornot Uppåkra’s need of agrarian products influenced the scope and focus ofplant cultivation in the hinterland is also discussed, from both a local andregional perspective.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- Archaeology (hsv//eng)

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