Orphan crops of archaeology‐based crop history research

D Fuks, F Schmidt, MI García‐Collado… - Plants, People …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide.
Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including 'forgotten'and …

Dung in the dumps: what we can learn from multi-proxy studies of archaeological dung pellets

D Fuks, ZC Dunseth - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2021‏ - Springer
A key question in archaeobotany concerns the role of herbivore dung in contributing plant
remains to archaeobotanical assemblages. This issue has been discussed for at least 40 …

'Multi-crop**', intercrop** and adaptation to variable environments in Indus South Asia

CA Petrie, J Bates - Journal of World Prehistory, 2017‏ - Springer
Past human populations are known to have managed crops in a range of ways. Various
methods can be used, singly or in conjunction, to reconstruct these strategies, a process …

Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry-Based Classification of 12 Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller) Varieties Based on Their Aroma Profiles and Estragole …

SM Afifi, A El-Mahis, AG Heiss, MA Farag - ACS omega, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller) is a popular aromatic plant native to the Mediterranean
basin and cultivated worldwide that is valued for the nutritional and health benefits of its …

The ancient dispersal of millets in southern China: New archaeological evidence

Z Deng, H Hung, X Fan, Y Huang, H Lu - The Holocene, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents the first direct evidence of millet cultivation in Neolithic southeast coastal
China. Macroscopic plant remains and phytoliths, together with direct accelerator mass …

The evolution of Neolithic farming from SW Asian origins to NW European limits

S Colledge, J Conolly, S Shennan - European Journal of …, 2005‏ - cambridge.org
The spread of agriculture is here examined from the perspective of changes in the
composition of archaeobotantical assemblages. We apply multivariate analysis to a large …

The 'invisible'product: develo** markers for identifying dung in archaeological contexts

C Lancelotti, M Madella - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Dung is one of the most valuable resources in arid countries: traditional communities all over
the world use it for heating, cooking, building and decorative purposes. It is commonly …

[HTML][HTML] Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800–7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites

A Smith, A Oechsner, P Rowley-Conwy, AMT Moore - PLoS One, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
Excavations at Abu Hureyra, Syria, during the 1970s exposed a long sequence of
occupation spanning the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture. Dung …

[HTML][HTML] One sea but many routes to Sail. The early maritime dispersal of Neolithic crops from the Aegean to the western Mediterranean

A de Vareilles, L Bouby, A Jesus, L Martin… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This paper explores the first maritime westward expansion of crops across the Adriatic and
the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Starting in Greece at c. 6500 cal BC and …

Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland

M McClatchie, A Bogaard, S Colledge… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents new insights into the appearance of agriculture at the north-western
edge of Europe, focussing on archaeobotanical evidence from Neolithic Ireland (4000–2500 …