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THE VEGETATION HISTORY OF THE SHEPHELAH, SOUTHERN LEVANT: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE–HELLENISTIC PERIOD (c.2000–100 BC)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 23-42, February 2024.
Summary Although the Shephelah region (Israel) is of a great archaeological significance and has been intensively excavated, very little is known about its landscape history. This study presents two large‐scale charred wood assemblages (>2300 items) that were recovered from Tel Azekah and Tel Lachish in order to reconstruct the ancient vegetation of ...
Minji Jin, Oded Lipschits, Dafna Langgut
wiley   +1 more source

Early food production in the Sahel of Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2006
This paper is concerned with the transition from hunting and gathering to food production in West Africa, based on evidence from the Sahel Zone of Burkina Faso compiled by field research during the last years.
Breunig, Peter (Prof. Dr.), Kahlheber, Stefanie, Neumann, Katharina   +2 more
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Palaeoecological study of Pyrenean lowland fir forests: Exploring midelate Holocene history of Abies alba in Montbrun (Ariiège, France) [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceFir (Abies alba Mill.) occupies an important place in the Pyrenean context, where the species finds its optimal conditions in this mountain zone (800e1800 m a.s.l.).
Cunill, Raquel, De Munnik, Nicolas, Galop, Didier, Métailié, Jean-Paul, Poublanc, Sébastien   +4 more
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Thirty Years of Interdisciplinary Research at the Site of Pistiros [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2017
The Thracian land was a very attractive place for the ancient Greeks and their economic expansion. At the end of the 5th century BC, the Greek inland emporion, known as Pistiros, was founded on the upper Maritsa River in inner Thrace, today south ...
Lenka Parvoničová, Jan Bouzek
doaj  

Archaeobotany: The wheat and the chaff [PDF]

Nature Plants, 2016
Bread wheat, so-called because of its springy gluten protein that allows dough to rise, accounts for around 90% of global wheat production today. This presents a striking contrast to ancient cuisines based on subsistence farming, which incorporated a diverse range of foods including staple grains.
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Cloggs Cave pollen sequences, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (SE Australia): 25,000 years of cultural plant use and changing environments

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
In southeastern Australia, GunaiKurnai caves are known by current Aboriginal Elders and from nineteenth century ethnographic documents as special places used by mulla-mullung (“clever men” and “clever women”) for the practice of magic and medicine ...
Elle Grono, Elle Grono, Bruno David, Bruno David, Janelle Stevenson, Janelle Stevenson, Joanna Fresløv, Russell Mullett, Russell Mullett, Benedict Keaney, Benedict Keaney, Catriona Graham, Catriona Graham, Jeremy Ash, Jeremy Ash, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Matthew C. McDowell, Matthew C. McDowell, Fiona Petchey, Fiona Petchey, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Ashleigh J. Rogers, David M. Kennedy, David M. Kennedy   +26 more
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Pollen signals of ground flora in managed woodlands [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores the vegetation signals contained in the non-arboreal pollen and spore (NAPS) components of pollen assemblages from Tauber traps placed in woodlands subject to rotational cutting (coppicing) in lowland England.
Abraham, Baker, Berglund, Berglund, Bradshaw, Broström, Broström, Bunting, Bunting, Bunting, Bunting, Bunting, Calcote, Carew, Court-Picon, Davis, Ellenberg, Favre, Fontana, Gaillard, Gregory, Hellman, Hellman, Hicks, Hicks, Hill, Hjelle, Hjelle, Huusko, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Li, M. Waller, M.J. Bunting, M.J. Grant, Maher, Maher, Malmros, Mazier, Mazier, Meddens, Moore, Parsons, Pedersen, Peterken, Prentice, Prentice, Rackham, Rackham, Rackham, Rasmussen, Räsänen, Schofield, Stockmarr, Sugita, Sugita, Sugita, Sugita, Sutton, Trondman, Waller   +61 more
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The Archaeobotany of Kuk

, 2017
The study of plants in archaeology—archaeobotany—is key to discovering how and when people exploited, cultivated and domesticated plants in the past, influenced their dispersal and effected their present-day biogeographic distributions. Archaeobotanical study incorporates a complex of methodologies, often reliant on carefully planned and executed ...
Lentfer, Carol, Denham, Tim
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La explotación de las plantas y los inicios de la agricultura en el Próximo Oriente: 20 años de investigación arqueobotánica [PDF]

, 2019
Este trabajo aborda el desarrollo de la investigación arqueobotánica en el Próximo Oriente en las dos últimas décadas. El artículo se centra en los avances conseguidos en el estudio de la explotación de las plantas en periodos pre-agrarios así como en ...
Arranz-Otaegui, Amaia, Peña-Chocarro, Leonor   +1 more
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Horticultural Systems and Species Diversity of Roses in Classical Antiquity: Integrating Archaeological, Iconographic, and Literary Evidence from Ancient Greece and Rome

Horticulturae
Roses held profound cultural and economic significance in ancient Greece and Rome, yet comprehensive documentation of their species diversity, cultivation practices, and horticultural innovations remains fragmented across archaeological, iconographic ...
Diego Rivera, Julio Navarro, Inmaculada Camarero, Javier Valera, Diego-José Rivera-Obón, Concepción Obón   +5 more
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