A5016092781- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Chinese history and philosophy
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Nuts composition and effects
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2021-2024
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2023-2024
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
2023-2024
New York University
2022
Hermitage Museum
2022
State Hermitage Museum
2022
Zhejiang University
2022
University College London
2018-2022
The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops, cultivated globally, today. Despite economic significance these domesticated species, pre-cultivation ranges, processes domestication, and routes prehistoric dispersal for all species remain unresolved. Among European plums, even taxonomic classification has been heavily debated over past several decades. In this manuscript, we compile archaeobotanical evidence prominent large-fruiting members Prunus,...
Yunnan's location at the crossroad of temperate China, Northeast India and tropical mainland Southeast Asia makes it a pivotal area for understanding early cultural contacts agricultural spread between these ecologically diverse regions. This paper evaluates current evidence relating to emergence first systems in Yunnan. It also reviews previous theories on dispersal Yunnan, including whether Austroasiatic speakers were responsible rice from Yunnan Asia, builds new framework that allows tie...
The Zarafshan River runs from the mountains of Tajikistan and terminates in sands Kyzyl-Kum Desert Uzbekistan; it served as a communication route homeland for Sogdians. Sogdians are historically depicted merchants existing end first millennium BC through AD. While recent research has provided glimpse into cultivation, commerce, communication, consumption Lower Zarafshan, agricultural heartland Middle Basin remained unstudied. This paper presents results archaeobotanical investigations...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals. lack agreement concerning timing centers origin is due to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin, brittle bird bones. Here we show that chickens were widely raised southern Central Asia from fourth century BC through medieval periods, likely dispersing along Silk Road. We present archaeological...
Historical sources describe irrigation and intensive agriculture being practiced in lowland Yunnan from at least the first century AD, but so far archaeobotanical remains allowing investigation of this issue have been scarce. Here, we present new evidence, including macro-botanical phytoliths results, Dian settlement site Dayingzhuang, with direct AMS radiocarbon dates on two wheat grains falling between 750 390 BC. We compare these results contemporary sites analyse agricultural systems...
The histories of African crops remain poorly understood despite their contemporary importance. Integration from western, eastern and northern Africa probably first occurred in the Great Lakes Region Africa; however, little is known about when how these agricultural systems coalesced. This article presents archaeobotanical analyses an approximately 9000-year archaeological sequence at Kakapel Rockshelter western Kenya, comprising largest most extensively dated record interior equatorial...
Southern Central Asia witnessed widespread expansion in urbanism and exchange, between roughly 2200 1500 B.C., fostering a new cultural florescence, sometimes referred to as the Greater Khorasan Civilization. Decades of detailed archeological investigation have focused on development urban settlements, political systems, inter-regional exchange within across broader region, but little is known about agricultural systems that supported these changes. In this paper, we present archaeobotanical...
High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (HRXCT) offers a powerful 3-dimensional, nondestructive and non-invasive diagnostic tool for imaging the external internal structures of range specimens interest including archaeobotanical remains.HRXCT new possibilities in terms research questions which may be asked fragile valuable archaeological specifically material.This technology, although currently somewhat limited time access to beamtimes at National Synchrotrons, requires simple,...
Dian Basin in Yunnan province is an important center for both early agricultural production and centralized state formation. Settled villages are present the since at least third millennium BC, by first Culture, a highly specialized bronze polity, flourished surrounding area, until it was conquered Han 109 BC. The increased deployment of flotation recent archaeological excavations allowed reconstruction practices from Neolithic to Bronze Age, documented Baiyangcun, Haimenkou, Xueshan among...
Cannabis grains are frequently reported from archaeological sites in Asia, and hypothesized centers of origins China Central Asia. Chinese early cannabis remains often interpreted as evidence hemp fabric production, line with textual describing ritualistic cloth use cultivation a grain crop. Modern measurements on varieties show distinct sizes between fibre or oil/fibre psychoactive varieties, the former having larger seeds average than latter. This paper reviews current macro-botanical for...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals1,2. lack agreement timing center origin is due, in large part, to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin bird bones. Historical sources attest prominence chickens southern Europe southwest Asia by last centuries BC3. Likewise, art historical depictions anthropomorphic rooster-human chimeras are...