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Forgetting cane grasses: Switching temporal focus to reveal mosaics of Saccharum diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 590-602, May 2025.
Sugarcane (Saccharum cvs.) is one of the most important cash crops globally. Related varieties and species of cane grasses of the genus Saccharum are also important subsistence crops in the Indo‐Pacific region. Despite the significance of these crops globally and recent advances in genetic characterisation, the histories and geographies of ...
Tim Denham
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A micro‐geoarchaeological investigation of a cultivation pit (maite) on Teti'aroa atoll, Central‐East Polynesia

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 17-41, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Cultivation pits represented the principal form of horticultural features developed by past atoll communities in Central‐East Polynesia (CEP), and they are still utilised on some atolls in Oceania. The majority of information about the use of cultivation pits in CEP derives from ethnographic and preliminary archaeological investigations.
Elisa Scorsini, Tim Denham, Emilie Dotte‐Sarout, Yannick Devos, Luc Vrydaghs, Guillaume Molle   +5 more
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The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ34S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
IntroductionStable sulfur isotope ratios (δ34S) in bone collagen are often employed to study the consumption of marine and freshwater fish, wetland grazing, marine foraging patterns, and the possible geographic origins of food sources.
Magdalena Blanz, Magdalena Blanz, Magdalena Blanz, Darren R. Gröcke, Peter Martin, Mike J. Church   +5 more
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Archaeobotanical evidence for the emergence of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa

Acta Palaeobotanica, 2022
Several models which remain equivocal and controversial cite migration and/or diffusion for the emergence and spread of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa during the first millennium AD.
Jerry Oluwatobi Olatoyan, Frank Harald Neumann, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie, Christine Sievers, Mary Evans, Sinethemba Mvelase, Tanya Hattingh, Maria H. Schoeman   +7 more
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Climate and land-use change during the late Holocene at Lake Ledro (southern Alps, Italy) [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceThis paper investigates the relative influences of climatic and anthropogenic factors in explaining environmental and societal changes in the southern Alps, Italy. We investigate a deep sediment core (LL081) from Lake Ledro (652 m a.
Battaglia R, Beug HJ, Beug HJ, Carancini GL, Cortesi C, De Marinis RC, De Marinis RC, De Marinis RC, Fasani L, Festi D, Filippi ML, Filippi ML, Gottardini E, Heiss AG, Hughes PD, Marzatico F, Marzatico F, Mercuri AM, Mercuri AM, Moore PD, Nequirito M, Pinton V   +21 more
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Conducted in the Past 118 Years on Global Prospective, Scientific Mapping, and Emerging Trends in Wild Fruits

eFood, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Wild edible fruits, commonly referred to as “hidden treasures,” hold a plethora of valuable resources. These fruits have the potential to significantly contribute to the provision of a proportionate and nutritious diet, particularly in impoverished areas across the globe.
Baby Gargi, Sakshi Painuli, Prateek Gururani, Prabhakar Semwal, Sanjay Kumar   +4 more
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Exploring the Origins of Hexaploid Wheats: Typification of Archaeological Triticum vulgare var. antiquorum and Description of Modern Triticum sphaerococcum subsp. antiquorum (Poaceae: Triticeae)

Taxonomy
This study addresses a critical issue in plant taxonomy and phylogeny: the relationship between archaeological materials and potentially analogous living populations.
Diego Rivera, Pedro Pablo Ferrer-Gallego, Concepción Obón, Francisco Alcaraz, Emilio Laguna, Nikolay P. Goncharov   +5 more
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Non‐Ingested Scapulae and Mandibles Accumulated in Nests by Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) in Corsica: A Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is a scavenger and bone‐eating vulture that also transports bones to the nest to feed the nestlings. Bones found at nests are characterized by the accumulation of small‐ to medium‐sized ungulates, a high number of third and second phalanges and digestive corrosion marks on regurgitated bones.
Montserrat Sanz, Isabelle Attard, Joan Daura, Jean‐Denis Vigne   +3 more
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First Geoarchaeological and Archaeometric Investigation at the Lucanian (4th–3rd Century BCE) Site of Laurelli (Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark—Southern Italy)

Geosciences
The Lucanian site of Laurelli represents one of the largest, still poorly investigated, pre-Roman archaeological sites of the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni Geopark (southern Italy).
Ettore Valente, Antonia Serritella, Maria Luigia Rizzo, Michele Scafuro, Carlo Scirocco, Domenico Guida, Mario Valiante, Chiara Comegna, Giuseppina Balassone, Alberto De Bonis, Celestino Grifa, Elda Russo Ermolli   +11 more
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The landscape and environment of Etruria [PDF]

, 2017
Etruria, homeland of the Etruscans, lies on the western coast of Italy to the north of Rome between the Tiber and the Arno rivers. This hilly region is defined by its low-lying coast and the rugged Apennine mountains to the north and east.
Perkins, Phil
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