Tracing Medical Plant Use in the Low Countries through Archaeobotany in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
The project will develop a new methodology that integrates innovative methods from the digital humanities with state-of-the-art scientific techniques to generate datasets that combine information from historical sources, archaeology, and archaeogenomics. This approach will enable us to formulate new ways of combining information on medicinal plants and health from large but fragmented sets of archival and archaeological data. The aim is to rediscover the lost or overlooked knowledge of medicinal plant use that is contained within archives and the archaeological record.