Daria S. Serezhnikova^1, *, Aleksey Yu. Sergeev^2, **, Oleg M. Oleynikov^2, ***, and Vladimir D. Polovinchuk^2, ****

¹Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
²Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia

*E-mail: Serezhnikova@yandex.ru
**E-mail: alexarchbot@yandex.ru
***E-mail: olejnikov1960@yandex.ru
****E-mail: v.polovinchuk@yandex.ru

Keywords: Veliky Novgorod, Middle Ages, nutrition, history of everyday life, plant diet, archaeobotanical studies.

The paper is focused on studying the plant diet of medieval Novgorodians. The main object of the re­search was plant macroremains obtained from samples taken from the remains of a cesspit discovered during excavations near the medieval Borkova Street in Veliky Novgorod in the mid-13th century layer. Many plant species, including those used daily, are not reflected in medieval records. From this point of view, cesspits are especially important objects – a direct source of information on nutrition. This study is significant as it is the first one based on materials from such objects in Novgorod, being the second for Rus sites (after the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, unpublished data) and the third for Russia as a whole.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606324040101, EDN: KIEAHL