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Reconstructing the evolutionary history of herbaceous crops through trait-based ecology. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Bot
Abstract Reconstructing the evolution of crop plants is fundamental to understanding their origins, ecological adaptations, and impacts on ecosystem processes. However, our understanding of crop evolution stems largely from archaeology and genetics, with less focus on a trait‐based ecological approach.
Gómez-Fernández A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Material choices for fibre in the Neolithic: an approach through the measurement of mechanical properties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe have focused on plants and animals exploited for food. However, the exploitation of plants for fibres underwent a significant change with the addition of domestic flax as a fibre crop.
Haigh, Sarah   +3 more
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Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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The resilience of pioneer crops in the highlands of Central Asia: Archaeobotanical investigation at the Chap II site in Kyrgyzstan

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +4 more
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Between Archaeology and Text: The Origins of Rice Consumption and Cultivation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Asiatic Rice Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) is a domesticated grain crop native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, which presently ranks among the most important grains in a global diet.
Muthukumaran, S
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From LBK to SBK: Pottery, Bones, Lithics and Houses at the Neolithic site of Hrdlovka, Czech Republic

open access: yesOpen 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeobotany in Estonia – history, state of the art and future perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesEesti Arheoloogiaajakiri
Archaeobotany is currently an underutilised discipline in Estonian archaeological research. This paper sheds light on the current state of archaeobotanical research in Estonia by analysing the spatial and temporal distribution of archaeobotanical ...
Kristiina Johanson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mud-plastered granary-baskets at a Celtic Oppidum near Čarnok (Vojvodina, Serbia) [PDF]

open access: yesRatarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2011
In the Celtic Oppidum near Čarnok (Bačka, Vojvodina, Serbia) remains of four mud-plastered granarybaskets were discovered. They are all dated to the period Gomolava VI-B (first half of the 1st century B.C.). Hulled barley and broomcorn millet were stored
Medović Aleksandar
doaj   +1 more source

What about Dinner? Chemical and Microresidue Analysis Reveals the Function of Late Neolithic Ceramic Pans

open access: yesMolecules, 2021
The Late Neolithic palafitte site, Ustie na Drim, in the northern part of Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia), excavated in 1962, offered ceramic fragments of large, flat, elongated pans.
Jaromír Beneš   +13 more
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Archaeobotany and social and economic factors in Irish Bronze Age settlements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Poster displayed at International Open Workshop: Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes III at Kiel, Germany, April ...
Johnston, Penny
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