Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 430. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, Sweden 33 pp. Dissertation abstract was published in AEA Newsletter 66, pp. Examined insect assemblages from archaeological context and from cores. Uppsala and Novgorod both had predominantly rural character based on these assemblages.
Results show transport of supplies and building materials to the towns from the surroundings.
Dung beetles at Uppsala indicate grazing as dominant landuse. Microclimates of towns may provide suitable habitats for taxa that usually prefer warmer conditions. Hence climatic reconstructions based on urban archaeological assemblages may be misleading. As a corollary, urban contexts may provide suitable habitats for survival of taxa that are extirpated from the surroundings. Hill, G. 1989 Human Helminth Parasites in Archaeology .