Search Results - "Vegetation history and archaeobotany"

Between domestication and civilization: the role of agriculture and arboriculture in the emergence of the first urban societies by Fuller, Dorian Q., Stevens, Chris J.

“…The transition to urbanism has long focused on annual staple crops (cereals and legumes), perhaps at the expense of understanding other changes within…”
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Cannabis in Asia: its center of origin and early cultivation, based on a synthesis of subfossil pollen and archaeobotanical studies by McPartland, John M., Hegman, William, Long, Tengwen

“…Biogeographers assign the Cannabis centre of origin to “Central Asia”, mostly based on wild-type plant distribution data. We sought greater precision by adding…”
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NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform by Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila S., Shumilovskikh, Elena S., Schlütz, Frank, van Geel, Bas

“…Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) form a large group of biological objects found in palynological slides besides pollen grains. This includes various remains of…”
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Cannabis in Eurasia: origin of human use and Bronze Age trans-continental connections by Long, Tengwen, Wagner, Mayke, Demske, Dieter, Leipe, Christian, Tarasov, Pavel E.

“…A systematic review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records of cannabis (fibres, pollen, achenes and imprints of achenes) reveals its complex history…”
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Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now? by Spengler, Robert N.

“…In the early 1980s Naomi Miller changed the field of palaeoethnobotany; her research into whether the ancient seed eaters of southwest Asia were human or…”
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Dung fungi as a proxy for megaherbivores: opportunities and limitations for archaeological applications by Perrotti, Angelina G., van Asperen, Eline

“…The use of spores of coprophilous fungi from sedimentary sequences as proxy evidence for large herbivore abundance has garnered pronounced attention and…”
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Tracking the history of grapevine cultivation in Georgia by combining geometric morphometrics and ancient DNA by Bouby, Laurent, Wales, Nathan, Jalabadze, Mindia, Rusishvili, Nana, Bonhomme, Vincent, Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín, Evin, Allowen, Ivorra, Sarah, Lacombe, Thierry, Pagnoux, Clémence, Boaretto, Elisabetta, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Bacilieri, Roberto, Lordkipanidze, David, Maghradze, David

“…The Near East and the Caucasus are commonly regarded as the original domestication centres of Vitis vinifera (grapevine), and the region continues to be home…”
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A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China by Stevens, Chris J., Shelach-Lavi, Gideon, Zhang, Hai, Teng, Mingyu, Fuller, Dorian Q.

“…This paper outlines a model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (broomcorn millet) in Northern China. Data from 43 archaeological sites indicate a…”
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A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals: a case study at Çatalhöyük East (Turkey) by Carretero, Lara González, Wollstonecroft, Michèle, Fuller, Dorian Q.

“…This paper presents an integrated methodology for the analysis of archaeological remains of cereal meals, based on scanning electronic microscopic analyses of…”
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Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France): the use of coprophilous fungi to reconstruct pastoral activity by Cugny, Carole, Mazier, Florence, Galop, Didier

“…This paper presents results from a modern dataset of non-pollen palynomorphs and its application to a ca. 2,000 year peat record from the same area in the…”
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One hundred years of Quaternary pollen analysis 1916–2016 by Birks, H. John B., Berglund, Björn E.

“…We review the history of Quaternary pollen analysis from 1916 to the present-day, with particular emphasis on methodological and conceptual developments and on…”
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Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia by Arranz-Otaegui, Amaia, Roe, Joe

“…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…”
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Agriculture and palaeoeconomy in prehistoric Xinjiang, China (3000–200 bc) by Li, Yuqi

“…Many recent studies recognize the crucial role that ancient agropastoralists (pastoralists who also engaged in farming) in Xinjiang played in facilitating…”
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The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan by Spengler, Robert N., Tang, Li, Nayak, Ayushi, Boivin, Nicole, Olivieri, Luca Maria

“…The mountain foothills of inner Asia have served as a corridor of communication and exchange for at least five millennia, using historically documented trade…”
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8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy) by Pedrotta, Tiziana, Gobet, Erika, Schwörer, Christoph, Beffa, Giorgia, Butz, Christoph, Henne, Paul D., Morales-Molino, César, Pasta, Salvatore, van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N., Vogel, Hendrik, Zwimpfer, Elias, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Grosjean, Martin, Tinner, Willy

“…Knowledge about the vegetation history of Sardinia, the second largest island of the Mediterranean, is scanty. Here, we present a new sedimentary record…”
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The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan by Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Giedre, Mir-Makhamad, Basira, Tabaldiev, Kubatbek

“…We present here the first comprehensive archaeobotanical investigation from the prehistoric farming settlement of Chap I (1065–825 cal bce ), located in a high…”
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Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce) by Morales, Jacob, Speciale, Claudia, Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Amelia, Henríquez-Valido, Pedro, Marrero-Salas, Efrain, Hernández-Marrero, Juan Carlos, López, Rosa, Delgado-Darias, Teresa, Hagenblad, Jenny, Fregel, Rosa, Santana, Jonathan

“…Abstract The Canary Islands were settled ca. 1,800 years ago by Amazigh/Berber farming populations originating in North Africa. This historical event…”
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Subtropical montane vegetation dynamics in response to Holocene climate change in central Taiwan by Wang, Liang-Chi

“…The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is a key component of the global monsoon system, with significant impacts on the climate and ecosystems in Taiwan…”
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Comparison of image acquisition techniques and morphometric methods to distinguish between Vitis vinifera subspecies and cultivars by Ucchesu, Mariano, Ivorra, Sarah, Pastor, Thierry, Bouby, Laurent

“…For decades, it has been known that the morphology of wild Vitis vinifera (grape) pips differ from domesticated ones. Based on these differences, computerised…”
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Vegetation and disturbance history of the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany by van der Knaap, Willem O., van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N., Fahse, Lorenz, Szidat, Sönke, Studer, Tanja, Baumann, Joël, Heurich, Marco, Tinner, Willy

“…National parks are supposed to protect large-scale ecological processes, along with species and ecosystems. Detailed knowledge about past vegetation and…”
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