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Agricultural practices of the Qin people from the Warring States period to the Qin Dynasty: A case from the Matengkong site in Guanzhong Basin, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In archeological studies, the Qin people have often been a subject of research. The areas of investigation about the Qin include their origin, structure of tombs, funeral rites and interment processes, and cities and settlements.
Liya Tang   +7 more
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Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed forests, parklands (savannah-like), shrublands, steppes and grasslands ...
Agustí   +259 more
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Charring-induced morphological changes of Chinese “Five Grains”: An experimental study

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2023
IntroductionCharring process affects the preservation potential of seeds, resulting in limited perceptions of crop assemblages recovered from archaeological layers.
Yang Liu   +6 more
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Archaeobotany [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Integrating the processes in the evolutionary system of domestication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Genetics has long been used as a source of evidence to understand domestication origins. A recent shift in the emphasis of archaeological evidence from a rapid transition paradigm of hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists, to a protracted transition ...
Allaby   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Ancient plant remains with special reference to buckthorn, Frangula alnus Mill., pyrenes from Dascyleum, Balıkesir, NW Turkey

open access: yesActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2016
Carbonized plant remains recovered from the ancient city Dascyleum (Daskyleion) in the province of Balıkesir in northwestern Turkey provide an outline of several phases of plant use in archaic, Hellenistic, and medieval times.
Emel Oybak Dönmez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different manifestations of Neolithization in Northwest Anatolia?

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2022
The Neolithic way of life was first established in Northwest Anatolia before the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The recently excavated sites of Barcın Hoyuk and Bahcelievler have yielded archaeological evidence for the earliest Neolithic levels in the
Hüreyla Balcı   +3 more
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Landsscape diachronic reconstruction in the Tiber Delta during historical time. A holistic approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The sensitivity of deltas in response to evolutionary factors makes them important archives of the events that occurred in the entire river basin.
Bellotti, Piero   +2 more
core   +1 more source

“Grassland in a jar” – an ecological view of the archaeobotanical contents of vessels from two Lusatian Urnfield Culture settlements (Early Iron Age) in north-central Poland

open access: yesActa Palaeobotanica
During the archaeological exploration of two Lusatian Urnfield Culture settlements, dated to the Early Iron Age and located in north-central Poland, 11 well-preserved clay vessels filled with waterlogged botanical remains were discovered.
Karolina Maciejewska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiresource Pastoralism, Dynamic Foodways, and Ancient Statecraft in Mongolia

open access: yesLand, 2023
Pastoral nomadic regional confederations, states, and empires have assumed a prominent place in the histories of the Eurasian steppe zone; however, anthropological theory devoted to understanding these political systems is still debated and relatively ...
William Honeychurch   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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