A5002427588- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Silicon Effects in Agriculture
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades
2024
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2021-2024
National Research Council
2023
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
2022
Leiden University
2020
In archaeology, the study of past plant processing activities in domestic spaces has hitherto relied greatly on observed distribution macrobotanical and artefactual remains. However, surfaces where such took place can themselves preserve microscopic remains, potentially traceable to activity that originated them. This paper presents new aspects plant-related tasks, use living space, at household level, Neolithic Çatalhöyük through spatial analyses phytoliths starch grains recovered from two...
The analysis of charred food crust from cooking vessels offers an opportunity to recover and study residues originating culinary practices, such as phytoliths cereal-based meals or other plant ingredients, serving direct evidence past preparation consumption activities. However, the presence crusts is sporadic in archaeological records, making it challenging rely solely on them reconstruct practices through phytolith analysis. Valuable dietary has also been obtained sediment adhering porous...
Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in central Anatolia, best known for its Neolithic occupation dated from 7100 to 6000 cal BC. The received worldwide attention early on large size, well-preserved mudbrick architecture, and elaborate wall paintings. Excavations at the over almost three decades have unearthed rich archaeobotanical remains diverse ground stone assemblage produced by what once was vibrant farming community. study presented here adds our understanding of crops plant...
The Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia used local wetland and riparian environments for a variety different tasks throughout the site's occupation. These tended to vary year as resources became available residents organized their labor focus on particular tasks. authors summarize paleoenvironmental archaeological data from recent analyses at describe how use fluctuated over course typical Çatalhöyük, well these patterns changed Çatalhöyük's later reorganized ways which...
Caribbean Amerindian societies had sophisticated regional socio-political and economic systems linked to important crops by the late 15th century when Spanish conquerors initiated invasion of Americas. These soon helped change dynamics world's foodways, scarce but mounting archaeological ethnohistoric evidence suggests that Spaniards later European intruders gained symbolic factual control primary subsistence scenarios in region exploiting Amerindians' plant foodways systems, lands political...
Most of the protocols employed for separation microbotanical remains from sediments follow same principles: (1) preparing sediment samples to be analysed (e.g., weighing, labelling, etc.); (2) deflocculation or particulate dispersal; (3) removing undesired particles (organic matter, carbonates, clay); (4) and extraction desired phytoliths, starch grains, fibres pollen) (Torrence 2006). However, a major concern when applying combined protocol is adverse effect that utilised chemical reagents...
Abstract The transition to agriculture-based economies and sedentary lifeways during the Neolithic brought significant changes in oral health diet. Despite influence of physiological cultural factors, frequency dental pathologies, such as caries calculus, is a common consequence carbohydrate-rich diets. Caries result from bacterial activity that transforms carbohydrates into lactic acid, leading demineralisation tooth enamel. In contrast, calculus can trap preserve biomolecules...