TY - JOUR
T1 - A microfossil-based object biogeography of a set of stocks from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
AU - Piena, Hans
AU - van Geel, Bas
AU - Hakbijl, Tom
AU - Kalis, Arie J.
AU - van der Knaap, Pim (W O.).
AU - van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F.N.
AU - Nooren, Kees
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2024/10
Y1 - 2024/10
N2 - In 2019 the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquired a set of oak stocks about which little was known. Radiocarbon wiggle-matching revealed that the tree used to make the stocks was likely felled around 1800 C.E., while ancient DNA indicated the tree's growing zone to be Central Europe. The question remained where and how these stocks were used. To answer these questions, traces of former use at the surface of the stocks were studied and sediment from cracks and holes in the stocks was analyzed for pollen, fungal spores, diatoms and other algae, phytoliths, and insects. The biogeographical information of the recorded taxa shows that the stocks had been used in the western Iberian Peninsula. Although the sediments could have entered in various ways and at various moments, a dungeon seems the most likely context in which these stocks have been used.
AB - In 2019 the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquired a set of oak stocks about which little was known. Radiocarbon wiggle-matching revealed that the tree used to make the stocks was likely felled around 1800 C.E., while ancient DNA indicated the tree's growing zone to be Central Europe. The question remained where and how these stocks were used. To answer these questions, traces of former use at the surface of the stocks were studied and sediment from cracks and holes in the stocks was analyzed for pollen, fungal spores, diatoms and other algae, phytoliths, and insects. The biogeographical information of the recorded taxa shows that the stocks had been used in the western Iberian Peninsula. Although the sediments could have entered in various ways and at various moments, a dungeon seems the most likely context in which these stocks have been used.
KW - Biogeography
KW - Early 19th century
KW - Microfossils
KW - Museum object
KW - Oak stocks
KW - Palaeoecology
KW - Western Iberian Peninsula
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U2 - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105172
DO - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105172
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85200995944
SN - 0034-6667
VL - 329
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
JF - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
M1 - 105172
ER -