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Down with the roots. Phytoliths as biocultural traces in historical olive agroecosystems of Sicily

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Within the multidisciplinary framework of historical ecology, in this study plant morphology, oral history, and soil analyses are combined with phytoliths to reconstruct shifts in management and environment of historical and living olive agroecosystems ...
Vincenza Ferrara, Vincenza Ferrara, Giovanna Sala, Giuseppe Garfì, Tommaso La Mantia, Anneli Ekblom   +5 more
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The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Taphonomy in the kitchen: culinary practices and processing residues of native tuberous plants of the south-central Andes [PDF]

, 2014
Presentamos material comparativo para la identificación de residuos culinarios de tubérculos cocidos de Solanum sp., Oxalis tuberosa y Ullucus tuberosus.
Babot, Maria del Pilar, Lund, Julia, Olmos, Adriana Valeria   +2 more
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Eligibility Testing at Three Prehistoric Sites at Lynch Creek, Lampasas County, Texas [PDF]

, 2014
In August 2004, archeologists from the Cultural Resources Section of the Planning, Permitting and Licensing Practice of TRC Environmental Corporation’s Austin office conducted National Register eligibility testing and geoarcheological documentation at ...
Barrett, Jason, Frederick, Charles D., Gray, Shannon, Matchen, Paul M., Quigg, J. Michael, Ricklis, Robert A.   +5 more
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Russian wheat aphid: a model for genomic plasticity and a challenge to breeders

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Invasive foundress finds suitable habitat and reproduces through pathogenesis. Wingless females produce life offspring quickly, which leads to high population densities. High population densities result in competition, which may induce epigenetic changes and wing development for dispersal.
Astrid Jankielsohn, Vicky L. Tolmay, Marlon‐Schylor Luke le Roux, Lintle Mohase, Mpho S. Mafa, Vittorio F. Nicolis, Eduard Venter, Nicolaas Francois Visser Burger, Anna‐Maria Botha   +8 more
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Phytolith Characteristics in Leaves and Culm Sheaths of Three Sympodial Bamboo Genera (Bambusoideae) in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China

Agronomy
This study focused on the phytolith characteristics of leaves and culm sheaths from nine bamboo species across three genera (Bambusa Schreb., Gigantochloa Nees, and Dendrocalamus Kurz ex Munro) in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. By analyzing
Taiyang Zhao, Mengsi Duan, Guomi Luo, Kemei Gao, Tingxuan Fu, Xiao Wang, Rui Xu, Changming Wang   +7 more
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Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon [PDF]

, 2015
The nature and extent of pre-Columbian (pre-1492 AD) human impact in Amazonia is a contentious issue. The Bolivian Amazon has yielded some of the most impressive evidence for large and complex pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon basin, yet there ...
Alcina Franch J, Altamirano DF, Barnadas JM, Block D, Colinvaux P, Denevan WM, Dobyns HF, Eder FJ, Edwards DG, Faegri K, Juggins S, Lathrap D, Meggers B, Mühlen GS, Nordenskiöld E, Oliver JR, Piperno DR, Piperno DR, Piperno DR, Posey D, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Prümers H, Saldanha J, Saunaluoma S, Schaan DP, Whitlock C   +31 more
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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A hajdúszoboszlói Kéthalom recens löszvegetációjának fitolit morfotípus-diverzitás vizsgálata [PDF]

, 2014
A kunhalmok az alföldi táj kiemelkedő természetvédelmi és kultúrtörténeti értékei. Az intenzív mezőgazdaság elől a kunhalmok felszínére visszaszorult löszpusztai növényzet fitolitkészletét a Hajdúszoboszló melletti Kéthalmon vizsgáltuk.
Kiss, H., Kovács, Sz., Lisztes-Szabó, Zsuzsa, Molnár, A., Pető, Ákos   +4 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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