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BRAIN - Holocene archaeo-data for assessing plant-cultural diversity in Italy and other Mediterranean regions [PDF]

Scientific Data
In the field of botany applied to archaeological and palaeoecological studies, the multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of this research produces a lack of data sharing and scattered articles in the specialty literature or in national and international ...
Anna Maria Mercuri, Eleonora Clò, Jessica Zappa, Giovanna Bosi, Elisa Furia, Cristina Ricucci, Matteo Di Lena, Federico Camerini, Assunta Florenzano   +8 more
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Plant-related Philistine ritual practices at biblical Gath [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The Philistine culture (Iron Age, ca. 1200-604 BCE) profoundly impacted the southern Levant's cultural history, agronomy, and dietary customs. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the Philistines’ cultic praxis and deities, is limited and uncertain.
Suembikya Frumin, Aren M. Maeir, Maria Eniukhina, Amit Dagan, Ehud Weiss   +4 more
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Varying cultivation strategies in eastern Tianshan corresponded to growing pastoral lifeways between 1300 BCE and 300 CE

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
This study combines plant stable isotope and archaeobotanical analyses to explore how ancient pastoral communities in varying landscapes of eastern Tianshan managed their barley fields.
Duo Tian, Yufeng Sun, Melissa M. Ritchey, Tongyuan Xi, Meng Ren, Jian Ma, Jianxin Wang, Zhijun Zhao, Zhijun Zhao, Xue Ling, Xinyi Liu   +10 more
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The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) in the Paris Basin: the contribution of starch grain analyses

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2023
Underground storage organs are poorly preserved in the archaeological record, and as a result their contribution to the diet of ancient societies is poorly understood.
Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, Michelle Elliott   +3 more
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Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia

Agronomy, 2022
The pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is commercially cultivated in semi-arid regions around the globe. Archaeobotanical, genetic, and linguistic data suggest that the pistachio was brought under cultivation somewhere within its wild range, spanning southern ...
Basira Mir-Makhamad, Rasmus Bjørn, Sören Stark, Robert N. Spengler   +3 more
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Talkin’ About a Revolution. Changes and Continuities in Fruit Use in Southern France From Neolithic to Roman Times Using Archaeobotanical Data (ca. 5,800 BCE – 500 CE)

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The use and socio-environmental importance of fruits dramatically changed after the emergence of arboriculture and fruit domestication in the eastern Mediterranean, between the 5th and the 3rd millennia BCE.
Laurent Bouby, Vincent Bonhomme, Manon Cabanis, Frédérique Durand, Frédérique Durand, Isabel Figueiral, Isabel Figueiral, Laurie Flottes, Philippe Marinval, Lucie Martin, Lucie Martin, Laure Paradis, Rachël Pinaud, Jérôme Ros, Núria Rovira, Margaux Tillier, Margaux Tillier, Margaux Tillier   +17 more
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Montane Ecoclines in Ancient Central Asia: A Preliminary Study of Agropastoral Economies in Juuku, Kyrgyzstan

Land, 2023
In this paper, we use preliminary archaeological data spanning the Iron Age through Medieval periods (ca. 800 BCE to 1200 CE) in the Juuku Valley in Kyrgyzstan on the south side of Lake Issyk-Kul to model land use across vertical mountain zones. We have (
Claudia Chang, Sergei S. Ivanov, Robert N. Spengler, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Perry A. Tourtellotte   +4 more
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Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions

Internet Archaeology, 2019
Archaeobotany, here taken as the study of archaeological plant macrofossil remains, is a mature and widely practised area of study within archaeology. However, plants are rarely seen as active participants in past societies.
Lisa A. Lodwick
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The resilience of pioneer crops in the highlands of Central Asia: Archaeobotanical investigation at the Chap II site in Kyrgyzstan

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
This paper presents archaeobotanical research results from an occupation horizon of the Chap II site left by the earliest known farming community in the Central Tien Shan mountains in the current territory of Kyrgyzstan. The archaeobotanical samples were
Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Manon van Unen, Manon van Unen, Ruta Karaliute, Kubatbek Tabaldiev   +4 more
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From LBK to SBK: Pottery, Bones, Lithics and Houses at the Neolithic site of Hrdlovka, Czech Republic

Open Archaeology, 2016
The paper is focused on the period of cultural change at the turn of 6th and 5th millennia BC, when the uniform Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) occupying an extensive area disintegrated in several local groups or cultures, including the Stroked Pottery ...
Vondrovský Václav, Beneš Jaromír, Divišová Michaela, Kovačiková Lenka, Šída Petr   +4 more
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