Teija Alanko

Turun Rettigin tontin Konsulinnan aluetta tutkittiin 2016 osana arkeologista valvontatyötä. Arkeobotaniikan avulla tunnistettiin ruokakulttuuriin, oluen valmistukseen ja lääkintään liittyviä kasvilajeja sekä kaupunkiympäristöstä kertovaa kulttuurinseuralaislajistoa. Keskiaikaisten hirsirakenteiden välistä löytyi eristysaineena käytettyä karvaa, jok...

Garden history in academic gardens can be studied both from written and drawn sources, such as lists of plants and old maps. Another possibility is archaeobotanical analyses carried out in gardens. The aim of this study was to test archaeobotanical macrofossil analysis as a method in Uppsala Linnaeus Garden, founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck the Elde...

The medieval Birgittine cloister of Naantali (Nådendal, SW Finland) had relatively short period of activity, but it was still important in the history of Finnish and Swedish cloisters, and the late medieval Finnish society. The Catholic cloister existed in Naantali from 1443 to 1544, when Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. The cloister mo...

Garden history has primarily been studied in Finland through historical sources, with archaeology playing a lesser role, although its importance has been noted. The aims of this paper are to review garden archaeological research in Finland in the context of garden archaeology and garden history research in general, to demonstrate a selection of res...

Garden history can be investigated through archaeobotanical research. This paper discusses the plant remains which were obtained from the soil of the historical garden of the manor of Kumpula in Helsinki, Finland. This study was an experiment to enable macrofossil analysis without archaeological excavations. The aim was to develop an alternative me...