#archaeobotany — Public Fediverse posts
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Early cereal grain growth was shaped by water, not early farming, study finds
Early Neolithic cereals grew larger in parts of southwest Asia because of wetter growing conditions, rather than human selection through tilling. A new study combines plant remains, carbon isotopes and weed evidence to trace how cereal domestication began in the southern Levant...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/cereal-grain-growth-was-shaped-by-water/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #neolithic #archaeobotany
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New PNAS study: those “domestic-sized” barley grains from 11,000-year-old Jordan sites weren’t bred bigger. They just grew where it was wetter. Genetic selection came later than we thought. #Archaeobotany #Neolithic #PlantDomestication https://www.anthropology.net/p/rain-not-selection-what-actually
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Im abgelegenen Wadi el-Hasa in Jordanien haben Archäolog:innen der @kieluni sowie der University of Oxford viele Jahre lang Siedlungsspuren vom Beginn der Jungsteinzeit vor etwa 11.000 Jahren untersucht. Jetzt veröffentlichen sie in der Fachzeitschrift PNAS Ergebnisse, die ein neues Licht auf die frühesten Phasen der Getreidedomestizierung werfen. Mehr dazu: https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/detailansicht/news/134-pnas-getreide
Photo with kind permission by www.jerome-poulalier-photography.com
#Archäologie #archaeology #archaeobotany #Archäobotanik #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #GetreideDomestizierung
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An AI trained on 8,340 charred seeds from 18 Chinese sites now classifies ancient crops with 90% accuracy, by learning the same size-first trick archaeobotanists use at the microscope. #Archaeobotany #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/teaching-a-machine-to-sort-five-thousand
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A cave in GunaiKurnai Country holds 25,000 years of burnt grass, laid down layer by layer, plus a standing stone erected 2,000 years ago. New phytolith evidence backs up what oral tradition always said. #Archaeology #IndigenousKnowledge #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/grasses-of-grief-and-ghosts-what
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine
Analysis of grape seeds from ancient wells in Tusca…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #GreekWine #MediterraneanWine #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #Greekwine #romantradenetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine https://www.diningandcooking.com/2683786/dna-from-2300-year-old-etruscan-grape-seeds-reveals-origins-of-modern-wine/ #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #GreekWine #RomanTradeNetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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Earliest evidence of cereal harvesting by ancient Canarians discovered in Gran Canaria
Archaeologists studying a cave complex on Gran Canaria have found the earliest direct evidence of cereal harvesting in the Canary Islands, adding new detail to what is known about farming and burial customs among the island’s Indigenous communities before the Castilian conquest...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/earliest-evidence-of-cereal-harvesting-in-gran-canaria/
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Soil temp, not just rainfall, may have driven the shifting geography of millet farming in Neolithic East Asia. A 3°C mid-Holocene cooling compressed cultivation zones and pushed farming southward. #Neolithic #Archaeobotany #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ground-went-cold-soil-temperature
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New archaeological finds from Neolithic Georgia have finally delivered physical evidence to match decades of genetic inference: bread wheat and its wild ancestor were both present ~8,000 years ago in the South Caucasus. #Archaeobotany #WheatDomestication #Neolithic https://www.anthropology.net/p/where-bread-wheat-began
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The history of olive cultivation in the southern Levant
Abstract The olive tree (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) is one of the most important crops across the Mediterranean, particularly the southern Levant. Its regional economic impor…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #Archaeobotany #Cropwildrelatives #Landraces #Mediterranean #Olive #Olives #palynology
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Archaeobotany, frequently used interchangeably with paleoethnobotany, is the multidisciplinary scientific study of past human-plant interactions through the recovery, identification, and analysis of plant remains from archaeological contexts.
#Archaeobotany #paleoethnobotany #Botany #Archeology #sflorg
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Early farmers accidentally bred “warrior” wheat — plants shaped over millennia to fight neighbors for light and space. Then modern breeding had to undo all of it. A wild loop in crop evolution. #HumanEvolution #Archaeobotany #CropScience https://www.anthropology.net/p/how-early-farmers-accidentally-bred
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New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-climate-got-better-the-plants
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Ancestors of key #crops like wheat, barley, and rye were significantly less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ago than previously believed, surviving primarily in a "refugium" along the Mediterranean coast of the Levant.
#Archeology #Archaeobotany #Paleoclimatology #sflorg
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New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further
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A wild potato carried across the Colorado Plateau reveals an Indigenous path toward domestication long before maize ruled the Southwest. Stone tools, starch grains, and living plants tell the story. #Archaeobotany #IndigenousScience #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tiny-potato-that-traveled-far
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From seeds to stories! - In a hands-on #fieldschool in #archaeobotany on #Elephantine Island in November, hosted by #Kairo_DAI and supported by @AuswaertigesAmt, colleagues from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities gained unique insights into ancient Egyptian life - from what people cultivated and ate to how they built, traded, and practiced rituals.
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On Monday, Lucy Kubiak-Martens (Zandaam, NL) will be guest at the Archaeological Colloquium (#ArchäologischesKolloquium)
@kieluni .
She will speak on "Culinary Practices in 3rd Millennium BC Hunte 1, Lower Saxony (and Beyond): through Integrated Organic Residue Analysis". You can attend the colloquium on site or participate online. All information: https://www.ufg.uni-kiel.de/de/aktuelles/events/vortraege
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Ancient DNA reveals lentils in the Canary Islands date back 2,000 years, linking North African settlers to today’s crops. These hardy seeds may help future farming. #Archaeobotany #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/lentils-across-millennia-how-ancient
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Ancient DNA and soil records from Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley reveal how maize roots evolved with farmers and climate shifts. Root traits shaped survival 9,000 years ago—and may guide crop resilience today. #Archaeobotany #Domestication #Maize #Archaeology #Anthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/roots-of-domestication-how-ancient
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Earliest use of psychoactive plant ‘harmal’ uncovered in ancient Arabia for health and healing
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known evidence of the use of the medical and psychoactive plant Peganum harmala, also referred to as Syrian rue or harmal, for fumigation around 2,700 years ago in an oasis settlement in northwestern Saudi Arabia...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/earliest-use-of-psychoactive-plant-harmal-in-ancient-arabia/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Oasis #harmal #archaeobotany #ironage
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Tomorrow in the #DiverseNile seminar series, dr Hamad Mohamed Hamdeen (associate professor in Archaeology, University of Al Neelain, Khartoum) will give an overview of recent archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological research from the Banganarti site (Northern Sudan). To sign up for the series, email chloe [dot] ward [at] lmu [dot] de
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Archaeoethnologica: Plants & Food in Göbekli Tepe - Book / Prantas e comida em Göbekli Tepe -Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/06/prantas-e-comida-em-gobekli-tepe.html
#Archaeology #Anatolia #neolithic #prehistory #foodprocessing #plants #subsistence #GöbekliTepe #archaeobotany #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Plants & Food in Göbekli Tepe - Book / Prantas e comida em Göbekli Tepe -Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/06/prantas-e-comida-em-gobekli-tepe.html
#Archaeology #Anatolia #neolithic #prehistory #foodprocessing #plants #subsistence #GöbekliTepe #archaeobotany #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Plants & Food in Göbekli Tepe - Book / Prantas e comida em Göbekli Tepe -Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/06/prantas-e-comida-em-gobekli-tepe.html
#Archaeology #Anatolia #neolithic #prehistory #foodprocessing #plants #subsistence #GöbekliTepe #archaeobotany #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Plants & Food in Göbekli Tepe - Book / Prantas e comida em Göbekli Tepe -Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/06/prantas-e-comida-em-gobekli-tepe.html
#Archaeology #Anatolia #neolithic #prehistory #foodprocessing #plants #subsistence #GöbekliTepe #archaeobotany #books #openaccess