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Revealing the last 13,500 years of environmental history from the multiproxy record of a mountain lake (Lago Enol, northern Iberian Peninsula) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10933-009-9387-7.We present the Holocene sequence from Lago Enol (43°16′N, 4°59′W, 1,070 m a.s.l.), Cantabrian Mountains, northern ...
Ana Moreno   +122 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun   +57 more
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Plant macroremains from an early Neolithic site in eastern Kuyavia, central Poland

open access: yesActa Palaeobotanica, 2016
The study examined plant remains from the Smólsk 2/10 site, situated on the border of two different landscapes and preserving traces of Neolithic occupation from several cultures: Early Linear Pottery culture (LBK, ca 5300-5200 cal. BC to ca 5000 cal. BC)
Mueller-Bieniek Aldona   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Charred seeds in Mikkeli Orijärvi : A study of subsistence strategies of an Iron Age settlement in East Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this study the over 350 macrofossil samples, containing over 2300 charred plant remains from an Iron Age settlement containing fossil fields in Mikkeli Orijärvi Kihlinpelto, were studied archaeobotanically.
Vanhanen, Santeri
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Experimental archaeology as a resource for approaching formation processes of seed assemblages. First results and future perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
El propòsit d'aquest article és obtenir una primera aproximació a certs processos de formació del registre arqueobotànic. Per a aquest experiment s'ha treballat amb dues species: Triticum aestivum s.l. (5130 restes) i Lens culinaris (1478 restes).
Antolín, Ferran   +2 more
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Bananas: The Spread of a Tropical Forest Fruit as an Agricultural Staple [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The banana (Musa) is one of the world’s most important crops and the most valuable fruit in the global market. In the search for varieties that are more pest- and disease-resistant plant breeders are increasingly looking to the wild progenitors,—as ...
Castillo, Cristina, Fuller, Dorian
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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
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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

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