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Orphan crops of archaeology‐based crop history research
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 562-589, May 2025.Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide. Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including ‘forgotten’ and ‘underutilized’ crops, contribute to global agrobiodiversity, living ecosystems and sustainable food production.
Daniel Fuks +23 more
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The Roman Food System in Southern Pannonia (Croatia) From the 1st–4th Century A.D.
Open Archaeology, 2020 Food is an excellent medium through which to explore trade, economies, migration and landscapes, yet little is known about food production and consumption in the Roman province of Pannonia.
Reed Kelly, Roguljić Ivana Ožanić
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Peak into the Past - An Archaeo-Astronomy Summer School [PDF]
, 2011 Our landscape has been shaped by man throughout the millennia. It still contains many clues to how it was used in the past giving us insights into ancient cultures and their everyday life.
Brown, D., Francis, R., Neale, N.
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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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Open Archaeology, 2021 While we know that cereals played an important role in the diet of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (BVSG) populations in the Paris Basin, many questions remain to be answered as to the real contribution of other plants.
Cagnato Clarissa +3 more
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A Brief History of Broomcorn Millet Cultivation in Lithuania
Agronomy, 2023 The eastern Baltic region represents the world’s most northerly limit of successful broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) (hereafter, millet) cultivation in the past, yet this crop has been almost forgotten today. The earliest millet in the eastern Baltic
Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė +1 more
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The archaeobotany of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: synthesis and prospects [PDF]
, 2014 This paper explores the full potential of archaeobotanical research in the investigation of issues such as agricultural practices and resource management and mobilisation in shaping the social dynamics of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete, through a ...
Chapouthier +46 more
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Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: Dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus civilisation [PDF]
, 2016 © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016.The first direct absolute dates for the exploitation of several summer crops by Indus populations are presented here. These include rice, millets and three tropical pulse species at two settlements in the hinterland of ...
Petrie, Cameron +3 more
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The Beixin Culture archaeobotanical evidence from Guanqiaocunnan indicates a population dispersal of hunter-gatherercultivators into and across the Haida region of northern China [PDF]
, 2020 The Beixin Culture appears within the hilly southwestern area of the Haidai region of northern China at ca. 5000 BC, and spreads to its north and northeast flood plains in the following millennium, replacing the Houli Culture.
Bellwood +33 more
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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 +5 more
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