In recent decades the analysis of stable isotopes in plants has become a useful method to
infer natural and anthropogenic effects on the growing conditions of plants. Here we present …

The spread of farming from western Asia to Europe had profound long-term social and
ecological impacts, but identification of the specific nature of Neolithic land management …

The emergence of complex societies represents one of the major developments of human
prehistory. Diverse agricultural strategies were implemented to produce the increased grain …

This paper presents the first study that combines the use of ancient crop and animal stable
isotopes (carbon and nitrogen) and Zooarchaeology Mass Spectrometry species …

Plants in archaeology tend to be studied from an anthropocentric point of view, in which they
are seen as passive objects (domestication, farming, deforestation, diet, trade, food and …

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 …

This study measured δ13C and δ15N of fresh and charred seeds from six different taxa of
cereals and pulses. For each taxon, 12 different batches of seeds, all from the same growing …

After 500 y of colonizing the forest-steppe area northwest of the Black Sea, on the territories
of what is today Moldova and Ukraine, Trypillia societies founded large, aggregated …

Research in to the nature of Neolithic agriculture in China is often focused on topics such as
the domestication and spread of cereal crops and the reconstruction of human and animal …

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) have made a huge contribution to
understanding dietary change across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. One of the major …