macroremains

The prevailing plant macroremains are grains of barley.

Macrobotany « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

We hope to recover macroremains such as the grains used in distilling.

Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Ask an Archaeologist 2003

The macroremains can be divided here into several groups: cereals, legumes, woody plants with edible fruits, oil plants, herbs and aromatic plants, weeds from cultivated fields, plants of disturbed areas, wetland and water plants, as well as grass - and meadowland plants.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Subsistence Studies Report 2 2003

Next to bone material, charred (e.g. walnut) and even uncharred (e.g. lentil) macroremains were found in it in relatively high amounts, pointing to somewhat special preservation conditions.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Subsistence Studies Report 2 2003

The other botanical macroremains will be studied in order to reconstruct the feeding habits of the people living at Sagalassos, but also to get some insight in what kind of plants they cultivated and which plants that they might have imported from elsewhere for their subsistence.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Archaeobotany Report 1 2003

The region was covered with large orchards of fruit, reflected in the macroremains uncovered at Sagalassos.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Subsistence Studies Report 4 2003