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Ethics in archaeobotany: identifying current issues and initiating a declaration of principles

open access: yes
This article presents the first systematic assessment of ethical concerns specific to archaeobotanical research, focusing on principles and values. Conducted by an international group of archaeobotanists, the study used an anonymous online survey to ...
João Pedro Tereso   +17 more
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Archaeobotany of Great Zimbabwe

open access: yes, 2023
The archaeobotanical record from Zimbabwe includes charred remains from Early Holocene through to Iron Age sites, often recovered by dry-sieving soil samples (Jonsson, 1998). More focused efforts to recover archaeobotanical macrofossils at Iron Age sites have been conducted at Great Zimbabwe (Jonsson, 1998; Chikumbirike, et al.
Williams, Alice J   +5 more
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Mapping Global Agricultural History: A Map and Gazetteer for Sub-Saharan Africa, c. 1800 AD

open access: yes, 2018
Recent global historical cropland modelling grossly underestimates the pre-colonial development of agriculture in the Americas and many parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Mats Widgren, Widgren, Mats,
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Archaeology of Plants. Current Research in Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the 12th IWGP Symposium, Sheffield 2001

open access: yes, 2002
Volume 11 Vegetation History and,4rchaeobotany starts with a special double issue, the outcome of the 12th symposium of the international Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP) at Sheffield, 17th-24th of June 2001.

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The effects of charring on morphology and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of common and foxtail millet grains

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Stable isotopes are a core method for assessing crop growing conditions in different climatic and soil environments and, thereby, for understanding past agricultural practices. However, isotopic values in plants are altered depending on distinct forms of
Andrés Teira-Brión   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeobotany of Triticum in prehistory: domestication, spread and speciation

open access: yesCzech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2005
J. Beneš   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights into agricultural practices at the Phoenician site of Castro Marim between 7th-5th century BCE

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology
Castro Marim is an Iron Age site from the Algarve region, Portugal. The earliest evidence of settlement, from the Late Bronze Age, dates to the 9th century BCE, with the Phoenician-Punic period dating from the 7th to the 3rd century BCE.
Roshan Paladugu   +9 more
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Characteristic pollen source area and vertical pollen dispersal and deposition in a mixed coniferous and deciduous broad-leaved woodland in the Changbai mountains, northeast China

open access: yes, 2016
Pollen influx (number of pollen grains cm−2 year−1) can objectively reflect the dispersal and deposition features of pollen within a certain time and space, and is often used as a basis for the quantitative reconstruction of palaeovegetation; however ...
Cao, Xianyong   +21 more
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86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2024)

open access: yes
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 59, Issue S1, Page A1-A468, August 2024.
wiley   +1 more source

The archaeobotany of long-term crop storage in northwest African communal granaries: a case study from pre-Hispanic Gran Canaria (cal. ad 1000–1500)

open access: yes, 2014
Communal granaries are a widespread and very significant feature of northwest Africa. Here the first systematic archaeobotanical study of such a granary is presented, with desiccated plant macro-remains retrieved from the pre-Hispanic site of El Álamo ...
del-Pino-Curbelo, Miguel   +5 more
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