A bazaar assemblage: reconstructing consumption, production and trade from mineralised seeds in Abbasid Jerusalem

• Published in: Antiquity Vol. 93; no. 367; pp. 199 - 217
• Main Authors: Amichay, Oriya, Ben-Ami, Doron, Tchekhanovets, Yana, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Fuks, Daniel, Weiss, Ehud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.02.2019
• Subjects: 10th century; Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258; Advertising executives; Analysis; Ancient civilizations; Anthropological research; Archaeology; Cereals; Consumption; Consumption patterns; Discovery; Discovery and exploration; Excavation; Excavations (Archaeology); Flowers & plants; Food processing plants; Fossilization; Fourier transforms; Fruits; Herbal medicine; Herbs; Historic artifacts; Industrial production; Legumes; Marketplaces; Medicinal plants; Mineralization; Paleobotany; Scanning electron microscopy; Seeds; Socioeconomic factors; Spectrum analysis; Stone; Vegetables; Israel; Levant (historic region); Jerusalem Israel; Abbasid; Jerusalem; Early Islamic; archaeobotany; mineralisation

Recent excavations in the historic centre of ancient Jerusalem have revealed evidence of an Abbasid (eighth- to tenth-century AD) marketplace. Refuse pits and cesspits have yielded an exceptionally well-preserved archaeobotanical assemblage—the first to be recovered from a Levantine marketplace, and...