Palynology of Gardens and Archaeobotany for the Environmental Reconstruction of the Charterhouse of Calci-Pisa in Tuscany (Central Italy)
Gabriele Gattiglia|Eleonora Rattighieri|Eleonora Clò|Francesca Anichini|Antonio Campus|Marta Rossi|Mauro Paolo Buonincontri|Anna Maria Mercuri
In central Italy, the Charterhouse of Calci hosts Natural History Museum University Pisa. This monumental monastery was founded in 1366 by Carthusian monks. The has experienced various transformations over centuries, until its abandonment 1970s. Since 2018, interdisciplinary archaeological research focused on monks’ gardens (and particularly: Prior’s, Apothecary’s, and Master’s garden) green spaces outside cloister walls, consisting courtyards orchards, to determine individual (gardens) collective (green surrounding woods) practices adopted Carthusians. Palynology archaeobotany have allowed reconstruct plant biodiversity, with flowers ornamental, aromatic, medicinal herbs that grew gardens, as well management local hilly woods agricultural practices, including cultivation fruit trees, such chestnut, olive tree, almond grapevine. Our been based a solid theoretical approach, interpreting archaeobotanical data relation intricate network human non-human connections. Gardens are seen co-creation made together agencies, their diachronic transformation is read an expression personalities monks, feelings, connections nature divinity.
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