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

Molecules, 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, Valentina Todoroska, Kristýna Budilová, Jaromír Kovárník, Jaroslav Pavelka, Nevenka Atanasoska, Jiří Bumerl, Assunta Florenzano, Tereza Majerovičová, Václav Vondrovský, Michaela Ptáková, Petr Bednář, Lukáš Richtera, Lukáš Kučera   +13 more
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Archaeobotany in Estonia – history, state of the art and future perspectives [PDF]

Eesti 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, Agnes Unt, Sirje Hiie   +2 more
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Une nouvelle dimension à l’analyse palynologique. Le potentiel des pollen washes pour une meilleure compréhension de l’utilisation des plantes

Archéopages, 2023
Food, pharmacopoeia, funerary rituals... The interdependent relationships developed over the millennia between societies and plants have been preoccupying specialists in the analysis of pollen grains and plant spores since the 1960s (Roux 1967).
Delphine Barbier, Ana Ejarque, Rémi Corbineau, Santiago Riera Mora, Yannick Miras   +4 more
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Rock Shelters, Caves, and Archaeobotany in Island Southeast Asia [PDF]

, 2005
This paper presents the state of archaeobotanical research at rock shelters and cave sites in Island Southeast Asia and its potential for enhancing our knowledge of the region's prehistory.
Paz, Victor
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Archaeobotany [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter aims to highlight what can be achieved through archaeobotany by focusing on one aspect: food. It is divided into five main sections, each concentrating on one of the five phases of food: food production, the realm of the farm and the landscape; food distribution and trade, the realm of the granary, the market, and long-distance transport ...
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