List of works - Anna Maria Mercuri

A Multidisciplinary Study of Wild Grapevines in the River Crati Natural Reserve, South Italy (Calabria): Implications in Conservation Biology and Palaeoecological Reconstructions

scientific article published in 2023

A marine/terrestrial integration for mid-late Holocene vegetation history and the development of the cultural landscape in the Po valley as a result of human impact and climate change

article by Anna Maria Mercuri et al published 26 February 2012 in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Aero-and bryopalynological evidence of widespread Prunoideae and Maloideae orchards in Vignola (Modena, Northern Italy)

article

Applied palynology as a trans-disciplinary science: the contribution of aerobiology data to forensic and palaeoenvironmental issues

scholarly article by Anna Maria Mercuri published in January 2015

Book reviews. Marijke van der Veen. Consumption, trade and innovation: exploring the botanical remains from the Roman and Islamic ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 6). xiv+314 pages, numerous illustratio

article

Book reviews. René T.J. Cappers. Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Berenike Report 6). xvi+232 pages, 135 illustrations & 10 tables. 2006. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Instit

scholarly article by Anna Maria Mercuri published September 2007 in Antiquity

Climate warming and the decline of Taxus airborne pollen in urban pollen rain (Emilia Romagna, northern Italy).

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Coprolites from Rock Shelters: Hunter-Gatherers “Herding” Barbary Sheep in the Early Holocene Sahara

scientific article published on 9 July 2019

Domestic firing activities and fuel consumption in a Saharan oasis: Micromorphological and archaeobotanical evidence from the Garamantian site of Fewet (Central Sahara, SW Libya)

Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery

scientific article

Economy and environment of Bronze Age settlements – Terramaras – on the Po Plain (Northern Italy): first results from the archaeobotanical research at the Terramara di Montale

article

Editorial: Archaeobotany for cultural landscape and human impact reconstructions

scientific article published in 2010

Erratum to: Colour in context. Pigments and other coloured residues from the Early-Middle Holocene site of Takarkori (SW Libya) ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Erratum to: The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

scholarly article published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Excavating the Roman peasant II: excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)

article by Emanuele Vaccaro et al published 26 September 2013 in Papers of the British School at Rome

Fossil leaves and sporomorphs in the museological Coppi Collection, originally from the Plio–Pleistocene Argille Azzurre formation (San Venanzio, Northern Italy)

article

From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

scholarly article by Anna Maria Mercuri published in February 2019

Genesis and evolution of the cultural landscape in central Mediterranean: the ‘where, when and how’ through the palynological approach

scientific article published in 2014

Holocene palaeoclimate in the northern Sahara margin (Jefara Plain, northwestern Libya)

Human-Impact Gradients through Anthropogenic Pollen Indicators in a Mediterranean Mosaic Landscape (Balearic Islands)

scientific article published in 2023

Human-induced fires and land use driven changes in tree biodiversity on the northern Tyrrhenian coast

scientific article published in 2024

Inside the "African cattle complex": animal burials in the holocene central Sahara

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of holocene population and environmental change

scientific article

Luxury food and ornamental plants at the 15th century a.d. Renaissance court of the Este family (Ferrara, northern Italy)

article

Mediterranean Culture and Climatic Change: Past Patterns and Future Trends

article

Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Melissopalynological analysis applied to air pollution studies in urban areas of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

article

Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea

scientific article published in 2019

Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Multiscalar Perspectives on Holocene Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Sahara and Nile Corridor, with Special Consideration of Archaeological Sites on Sai Island, Sudan

scholarly article by Elisabeth Hildebrand published in January 2018

New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Palynological evidence of cultural and environmental connections in Sudanese Nubia during the Early and Middle Holocene

article

Palynology of Gardens and Archaeobotany for the Environmental Reconstruction of the Charterhouse of Calci-Pisa in Tuscany (Central Italy)

scientific article published in 2023

Plant Responses to Climate Change: The Case Study of Betulaceae and Poaceae Pollen Seasons (Northern Italy, Vignola, Emilia-Romagna)

scientific article

Plant behaviour from human imprints and the cultivation of wild cereals in Holocene Sahara

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Plant exploitation and ethnopalynological evidence from the Wadi Teshuinat area (Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara)

article

Plant use in a city in Northern Italy during the late Mediaeval and Renaissance periods: results of the archaeobotanical investigation of “The Mirror Pit” (14th–15th century a.d.) in Ferrara

article

Plants, Fire and Landscape at the Prehistoric Pile-Dwelling Village of Palù di Livenza (PaluON1), UNESCO Site in the Italian Alps

scientific article published in 2023

Plants, water and humans: pollen analysis from Holocene archaeological sites on Sai Island, northern Sudan

article

Pollen and Flora as Bioindicators in Assessing the Status of Polluted Sites: The Case Study of the Mantua Lakes (SIN “Laghi di Mantova e Polo Chimico”; N Italy)

scientific article published in 2023

Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

article

Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka

article

Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean

scholarly article

Regional Vegetation Histories: An Overview of the Pollen Evidence from the Central Mediterranean

article

Reply to ‘Reduction in grain pollen indicates population decline, but not necessarily Black Death mortality’

scientific article published in 2022

Saharan prehistoric basketry. Archaeological and archaeobotanical analysis of the early-middle Holocene assemblage from Takarkori (Acacus Mts., SW Libya)

scholarly article by Savino di Lernia published in June 2012

Seeds/fruits, pollen and parasite remains as evidence of site function: piazza Garibaldi – Parma (N Italy) in Roman and Mediaeval times

article

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) on silver colloids for the identification of ancient textile dyes. Part II: pomegranate and sumac

article by Silvia Bruni et al published March 2011 in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Takarkori rock shelter (SW Libya): an archive of Holocene climate and environmental changes in the central Sahara

scholarly article

The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

scientific article

The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

article published in 2013

The Significance of Intestinal Parasite Remains in Pollen Samples from Medieval Pits in the Piazza Garibaldi of Parma, Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy

article

The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project

article

The evolution of Roman urban environments through the archaeobotanical remains in Modena – Northern Italy

article

The long history of Cannabis and its cultivation by the Romans in central Italy, shown by pollen records from Lago Albano and Lago di Nemi

article

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

The potential of paleoecology for functional forest restoration planning: lessons from Late Holocene Italian pollen records

article

Towards a "crime pollen calendar" - pollen analysis on corpses throughout one year

scientific article published on 10 January 2006

Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

article

Volcanic Lake Sediments as Sensitive Archives of Climate and Environmental Change

article

List of works by Anna Maria Mercuri

A Multidisciplinary Study of Wild Grapevines in the River Crati Natural Reserve, South Italy (Calabria): Implications in Conservation Biology and Palaeoecological Reconstructions

A marine/terrestrial integration for mid-late Holocene vegetation history and the development of the cultural landscape in the Po valley as a result of human impact and climate change

Aero-and bryopalynological evidence of widespread Prunoideae and Maloideae orchards in Vignola (Modena, Northern Italy)

Applied palynology as a trans-disciplinary science: the contribution of aerobiology data to forensic and palaeoenvironmental issues

Book reviews. Marijke van der Veen. Consumption, trade and innovation: exploring the botanical remains from the Roman and Islamic ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 6). xiv+314 pages, numerous illustratio

Book reviews. René T.J. Cappers. Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Berenike Report 6). xvi+232 pages, 135 illustrations & 10 tables. 2006. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Instit

Climate warming and the decline of Taxus airborne pollen in urban pollen rain (Emilia Romagna, northern Italy).

Coprolites from Rock Shelters: Hunter-Gatherers “Herding” Barbary Sheep in the Early Holocene Sahara

Domestic firing activities and fuel consumption in a Saharan oasis: Micromorphological and archaeobotanical evidence from the Garamantian site of Fewet (Central Sahara, SW Libya)

Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery

Economy and environment of Bronze Age settlements – Terramaras – on the Po Plain (Northern Italy): first results from the archaeobotanical research at the Terramara di Montale

Editorial: Archaeobotany for cultural landscape and human impact reconstructions

Erratum to: Colour in context. Pigments and other coloured residues from the Early-Middle Holocene site of Takarkori (SW Libya) ⬇️

Erratum to: The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

Excavating the Roman peasant II: excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)

Fossil leaves and sporomorphs in the museological Coppi Collection, originally from the Plio–Pleistocene Argille Azzurre formation (San Venanzio, Northern Italy)

From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

Genesis and evolution of the cultural landscape in central Mediterranean: the ‘where, when and how’ through the palynological approach

Holocene palaeoclimate in the northern Sahara margin (Jefara Plain, northwestern Libya)

Human-Impact Gradients through Anthropogenic Pollen Indicators in a Mediterranean Mosaic Landscape (Balearic Islands)

Human-induced fires and land use driven changes in tree biodiversity on the northern Tyrrhenian coast

Inside the "African cattle complex": animal burials in the holocene central Sahara

Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of holocene population and environmental change

Luxury food and ornamental plants at the 15th century a.d. Renaissance court of the Este family (Ferrara, northern Italy)

Mediterranean Culture and Climatic Change: Past Patterns and Future Trends

Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

Melissopalynological analysis applied to air pollution studies in urban areas of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea

Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)

Multiscalar Perspectives on Holocene Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Sahara and Nile Corridor, with Special Consideration of Archaeological Sites on Sai Island, Sudan

New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

Palynological evidence of cultural and environmental connections in Sudanese Nubia during the Early and Middle Holocene

Palynology of Gardens and Archaeobotany for the Environmental Reconstruction of the Charterhouse of Calci-Pisa in Tuscany (Central Italy)

Plant Responses to Climate Change: The Case Study of Betulaceae and Poaceae Pollen Seasons (Northern Italy, Vignola, Emilia-Romagna)

Plant behaviour from human imprints and the cultivation of wild cereals in Holocene Sahara

Plant exploitation and ethnopalynological evidence from the Wadi Teshuinat area (Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara)

Plant use in a city in Northern Italy during the late Mediaeval and Renaissance periods: results of the archaeobotanical investigation of “The Mirror Pit” (14th–15th century a.d.) in Ferrara

Plants, Fire and Landscape at the Prehistoric Pile-Dwelling Village of Palù di Livenza (PaluON1), UNESCO Site in the Italian Alps

Plants, water and humans: pollen analysis from Holocene archaeological sites on Sai Island, northern Sudan

Pollen and Flora as Bioindicators in Assessing the Status of Polluted Sites: The Case Study of the Mantua Lakes (SIN “Laghi di Mantova e Polo Chimico”; N Italy)

Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka

Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean

Regional Vegetation Histories: An Overview of the Pollen Evidence from the Central Mediterranean

Reply to ‘Reduction in grain pollen indicates population decline, but not necessarily Black Death mortality’

Saharan prehistoric basketry. Archaeological and archaeobotanical analysis of the early-middle Holocene assemblage from Takarkori (Acacus Mts., SW Libya)

Seeds/fruits, pollen and parasite remains as evidence of site function: piazza Garibaldi – Parma (N Italy) in Roman and Mediaeval times

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) on silver colloids for the identification of ancient textile dyes. Part II: pomegranate and sumac

Takarkori rock shelter (SW Libya): an archive of Holocene climate and environmental changes in the central Sahara

The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

The Significance of Intestinal Parasite Remains in Pollen Samples from Medieval Pits in the Piazza Garibaldi of Parma, Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy

The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters

The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project

The evolution of Roman urban environments through the archaeobotanical remains in Modena – Northern Italy

The long history of Cannabis and its cultivation by the Romans in central Italy, shown by pollen records from Lago Albano and Lago di Nemi

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

The potential of paleoecology for functional forest restoration planning: lessons from Late Holocene Italian pollen records

Towards a "crime pollen calendar" - pollen analysis on corpses throughout one year

Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

Volcanic Lake Sediments as Sensitive Archives of Climate and Environmental Change

Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka