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Strontium isotope evidence for a trade network between southeastern Arabia and India during Antiquity

Scientific Reports, 2021
Cotton (Gossypium sp.), a plant of tropical and sub-tropical origin, appeared at several sites on the Arabian Peninsula at the end of the 1st mill. BCE-beginning of the 1st mill. CE.
Saskia E. Ryan, Vladimir Dabrowski, Arnaud Dapoigny, Caroline Gauthier, Eric Douville, Margareta Tengberg, Céline Kerfant, Michel Mouton, Xavier Desormeau, Camille Noûs, Antoine Zazzo, Charlène Bouchaud   +11 more
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Pit Preserve from Ida – on the Problem of Charred Seeds from Prehistoric Pits

EXARC Journal, 2022
The whys and hows of surviving plant macro-remains from the beginnings of agriculture onwards is a central question in the understanding of early sedentary economies.
Lutz Zwiebel
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Crops and wild plants from early iron age Kalakača, northern Serbia: Comparing old and new archaeobotanical data [PDF]

Balcanica, 2015
The “old” archaeobotanical analysis of charred plant remains hand-picked in the 1970’s from several pit-features at Early Iron Age Kalakača in Vojvodina, northern Serbia was conducted by Willem van Zeist and published by Predrag Medović.
Filipović Dragana
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Charring-induced morphological changes of Chinese “Five Grains”: An experimental study

Frontiers 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, Yang Xi, Fei Zhang, Zhenzhen Wang, Can Wang, Shiyong Yu, Xuexiang Chen   +6 more
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The analysis of plant remains from the fortress Ras - the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century [PDF]

Starinar, 2002
This paper presents a study of macro plant remains from the medieval site of Ras that is situated in the southwest Serbia, 11 km southwest from the city of Novi Pazar.
Borojević Ksenija
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Small Molded Vessels for Incense from Burials of Southern Subural Nomads in the 4th – 2nd Centuries BC

Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2022
The article is devoted to one of the categories of ceramic ware of the early nomads of the Southern Suburals. These are the small vessels with a slightly swollen body and high neck ornamented with vertical or oblique flutes or having no ornament.
Vitaliy K. Fedorov
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Archaeobotanical Evidence of Hazelnut (, Betulaceae) Exploitation in the Neolithic Northern China

SAGE Open, 2019
Hazelnut is an important nut food that was widely consumed throughout prehistory. Archaeologists frequently find the charred plant macrofossils of Corylus at archaeological sites throughout Eurasia.
Pengfei Sheng, Xue Shang, Xinying Zhou, Hongen Jiang   +3 more
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Phytoliths analysis for the discrimination of Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and Common millet (Panicum miliaceum). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and Common millet (Panicum miliaceum) are the oldest domesticated dry farming crops in Eurasia. Identifying these two millets in the archaeobotanical remains are still problematic, especially because the millet grains ...
Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Naiqin Wu, Kam-Biu Liu, Deke Xu, Quan Li   +5 more
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Rubbish or kindling? Plant remains from two Neolithic sites in the Chełmno Land, Poland, with special focus on the Arrhenatherum elatius ssp. bulbosum find

Acta Palaeobotanica
This article presents the results of carpological and anthracological analyses of charred plant remains collected as soil and charred wood samples from two Funnel Beaker culture sites located in Kałdus and Browina, in the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship,
Dominika Kofel, Kamil Adamczak, Dorota Bienias   +2 more
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The alteration from agricultural to nomadic regimes resulted in human livelihood transformation in North-Central China during the 12th century: The archaeobotanical evidence

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Human livelihoods provided a crucial economic foundation for social development in ancient times and were influenced by various factors including environmental change, agricultural origin and intensification, as well as long-distance exchange and ...
Ruo Li, Bing Li, Wei Chen, Peilun Liu, Mingxia Xie, Yunqing Zhang, Sai Wang, Yuecong Li, Yuecong Li, Guanghui Dong   +9 more
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