Two-season agriculture and irrigated rice during the Dian: radiocarbon dates and archaeobotanical remains from Dayingzhuang, Yunnan, Southwest China

11/04/2021
Read more by Dal Martello Rita, Li Xiaorui & Dorian Q. Fuller Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13 March 2021

Strontium isotope evidence for a trade network between southeastern Arabia and India during Antiquity

11/04/2021
Read more by Saskia E. Ryan, Vladimir Dabrowski, Arnaud Dapoigny, Caroline Gauthier, Eric Douville, Margareta Tengberg, Céline Kerfant, Michel Mouton, et.al Published on Scientific Reports. 11 January 2021

Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology

10/04/2021
Read more by Franziska Kobe, Elena V. Bezrukova, Christian Leipe, Alexander A.Shchetnikov, Tomasz Goslar, Mayke Wagner, Svetlana S.Kostrova, Pavel E.Tarasov Published on Archaeology Research in Asia. September 2020

Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics

10/04/2021
Read more by TaoLi, ChaoNing, Irina S.Zhushchikhovska, Mark J. Published on Archaeological Research in Asia. June 2020

Discovery of annual growth in a modern olive branch based on carbon isotopes and implications for the Bronze Age volcanic eruption of Santorini

09/04/2021
Read more by Yael Ehrlich, Lior Regev & Elisabetta Boaretto Published on Scientific Reports. 12 January 2021

Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication

09/04/2021
Read more by Robert N. Spengler, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Kseniia Ashastina, Logan Kistler, Natalie G. Mueller and Nicole Boivin Published on Frontiers in Plant Science. 24 March 2021

Discovery of annual growth in a modern olive branch based on carbon isotopes and implications for the Bronze Age volcanic eruption of Santorini

09/04/2021
Read more by Yael Ehrlich, Lior Regev & Elisabetta Boaretto Published on Scientific Reports. 12 January 2021

From Storage to Disposal: a Holistic Microbotanical Approach to Domestic Plant Preparation and Consumption Activities in Late Minoan Gypsades, Crete

09/04/2021
Read more by Juan José García-Granero, Eleni Hatzaki, Evgenia Tsafou, Gianna Ayala, Ioanna Serpetsidaki & Amy Bogaard  Published on Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 17 May 2020

Genomic Comparison and Population Diversity Analysis Provide Insights into the Domestication and Improvement of Flax

03/04/2021
Read more by Jianping Zhang, Yanni Qi, Limin Wang, Zhanhai Dang, Hongkun Zheng, Touming Liu Published on iScience. 06 March 2020

Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication

03/04/2021
Read more by Robert N. Spengler III Published on Trends in Plant Science. 27 February 2020

Mashes to Mashes, Crust to Crust. Presenting a novel microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record

01/04/2021
Read more by Andreas G. Heiss, Marian Berihuete Azorín, Ferran Antolín, Lucy Kubiak-Martens, Elena Marinova, Elke K. Arendt, Costas G. Biliaderis, Hermann Kretschmer et.al Published on Plos One. 07 May 2020

The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago

01/04/2021
Read more by S. Anna Florin, Andrew S. Fairbairn, May Nango, Djaykuk Djandjomerr, Ben Marwick, Richard Fullagar, Mike Smith, Lynley A. Wallis & Chris Clarkson Published on Nature Communications. 17 February 2020

Mediterranean polyculture revisited: Olive, grape and subsistence strategies at Palaikastro, East Crete, between the Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age

30/03/2021
Read more by Alexandra Livarda, Hector A.Orengo, Nuri aCañellas-Boltà, Santiago Riera-Mora, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Vasiliki Tzevelekidi, Rena Veropoulidou, Ricard Marlasca Martín, Athanasia Krahtopoulou Published on Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. March 2021

We started eating olives 500 years after discovering olive oil

30/03/2021
Read more by Green Prophet. February 2 2021

Landscape management and polyculture in the ancient gardens and fields at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador

29/03/2021
Read more by Venicia Slotten, David Lentz, Payson Sheets Published on Journal of Antropological Archaeology. September 2020

Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago

28/03/2021
Read more by JinqiDai, XipengCai, JianhuiJin, WeiGe, YunmingHuang, WeiWu, TaoqinXia, FushengLi, XinxinZuo Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. Apri 2021

An Ancient Residue Metabolomics-Based Method to Distinguish Use of Closely Related Plant Species in Ancient Pipes

28/03/2021
Read more by Korey J. Brownstein, Shannon Tushingham, William J. Damitio, Tung Nguyen, David R. Gang Published on Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 26 June 2020

Seabird guano fertilizer drove robust agriculture in Atacama Desert from AD 1000

22/03/2021
Read more by Nature Publishing Group. January 26 2021

Direct archaeological evidence for Southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre

22/03/2021
Read more by Jennifer Watling, Myrtle P. Shock, Guilherme Z. Mongeló, Fernando O. Almeida, Thiago Kater, Paulo E. De Oliveira, Eduardo G. Neves Published on Plos One. July 25 2018

Terrestrial diet in prehistoric human groups from southern Poland based on human, faunal and botanical stable isotope evidence

17/03/2021
Read more by Barbara Mnich, Aldona Mueller-Bieniek, Marek Nowak, Jarosław Wilczyński, Sylwia Pospuła, Krzysztof Szostek Published by Journal of Archaeological Science. August 2020

Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice

16/03/2021
Read more by ScienceDaily, 15 March 2021.

Kushan Period rice in the Amu Darya Basin: Evidence for prehistoric exchange along the southern Himalaya

16/03/2021
Read more by Guanhan Chen, Xinying Zhou, Jianxin Wang, Jian MA,  Mutalibjon Khasannov, Nasibillo Khasanov, Robert N. Spengler, Amridin Berdimurodov, Xiaoqiang Li Published on Science China Earth Science. 03 April 2020

Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas

13/03/2021
Read more by Douglas J. Kennett, Keith M. Prufer, Brendan J. Culleton, Richard J. George, Mark Robinson, Willa R. Trask, Gina M. Buckley, Emily Moes, Emily J. Kate, Thomas K. Harper, Lexi O’Donnell, Erin E. Ray, Ethan C. Hill, Asia Alsgaard, Christopher Merriman, Clayton Meredith, Heather J. H. Edgar, Jaime J. Awe and Said M. Gutierre Science Advances. 03 Jun 2020

Seed morphology uncovers 1500 years of vine agrobiodiversity before the advent of the Champagne wine

13/03/2021
Read more by Vincent Bonhomme, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Véronique Zech-Matterne, Sarah Ivorra, Thierry Lacombe, Gilles Deborde, Philippe Kuchler, Bertrand Limier, Thierry Pastor, Philippe Rollet & Laurent Bouby  Scientific reports. Nature. 27 January 2021

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