Climate change is often cited as a major factor in social change. The so-called 8.2 ka event
was one of the most pronounced and abrupt Holocene cold and arid events. The 9.2 ka …

This article reviews the available information on the founder grain crops (einkorn wheat,
emmer wheat, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, and flax) that started agriculture in Southwest …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

This paper presents an integrated methodology for the analysis of archaeological remains of
cereal meals, based on scanning electronic microscopic analyses of microstructures of …

Recent studies have suggested that domestication was a slower evolutionary process than
was previously thought. We address this issue by quantifying rates of phenotypic change in …

Background: Cannabis sativa L.(C. sativa) is a plant whose use as a therapeutic agent
shares its origins with the first Far East's human societies. Cannabis has been used not only …

Intensive archaeobotanical investigations at Çatalhöyük have created a unique opportunity
to explore change and continuity in plant use through the ca 1,500-year Neolithic to early …

Analyses of charred remains and impressions of chaff in pisé (mudbrick) from the Neolithic
sites of Aratashen and Aknashen (sixth millennium cal bc) situated in the Ararat valley in …

Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …

Abstract The Natufian culture (c. 14.6–11.5 ka cal. BP) represents the last hunter-gatherer
society that inhabited southwest Asia before the development of plant food production. It has …