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ORG-ID
Disciplines
Botanical macroremains, µCT scanning
Date
2023-2025
Funding
BRAIN-be 2.0 project, funded by BELSPO
Participants
Prof. Dr. Koen Deforce
In collaboration with
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
ORG-ID aims to broaden the dating potential for archaeological sites in Belgium and adjacent areas with the AMS 14C dating of plant temper material preserved in pottery. The first objective is to identify which plant species have been used as temper in Neolithic, Iron Age, Roman and Merovingian pottery from the study area. This is an important first step, as only terrestrial plants provide reliable radiocarbon dates, whereas dates on aquatic plants may be subject to a reservoir effect. The second objective is to set up a protocol for the extraction and chemical pre-treatment of plant temper prior to AMS 14C dating. The third objective is to evaluate the reliability of the obtained dates by comparing them to other dates on (organic) materials from the same archaeological sites.