A5009963841- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Cambodian History and Society
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
Diversité, adaptation et développement des plantes
2023-2025
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2023-2025
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
2024-2025
Université de Montpellier
2024-2025
Agropolis International
2023-2024
University College London
2015-2022
University of Geneva
2021-2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
2020-2022
Since the 1970s, quest for finding origins of domesticated sorghum in Africa has remained elusive despite fact that (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. sensu stricto) is one world’s most important cereals. Recognized as originating from wild populations arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf), however, date and cultural context its domestication been controversial, with many scholars inferring an early Holocene origin parallel better-known cereal domestications. This paper presents firm evidence process...
Imprints of domesticated pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) spikelets, observed as temper in ceramics dating to the third millennium BC, provide earliest evidence for cultivation and domestication process this crop northern Mali. Additional sherds from same region fifth fourth BC were examined found have chaff with wild morphologies. In addition studying by stereomicroscopy subjecting surface casts scanning electron microscopy (SEM), we also deployed X-ray microcomputed tomography...
Many societal and environmental changes occurred between the 2nd millennium BC middle of AD in western Africa. Key amongst these were land use due to spread development agricultural strategies, which may have had widespread consequences for climate, hydrology, biodiversity, ecosystem services region. Quantification land-use influences potential feedbacks human natural systems is controversial, however, part because archaeological historical record highly fragmented time space. To improve our...
This article provides an up-to-date review of the origins and spread cottons in Old World based on archaeobotanical evidence, explores routes socioeconomic context through which cotton cultivation became established across tropics sub-tropics Asia Africa. Two species were domesticated World, one was grown for millennia as a long-lived tree (Gossypium arboreum) other shrub over several years herbaceum). While G. arboreum began to be cultivated during Middle Holocene (7000–4000 ago) Pakistan...
Abstract Archaeobotanical evidence suggests that the beginning of cultivation and emergence domesticated sorghum was located in eastern Sudan during fourth millennium BCE. Here, we used a genomic approach, together with archaeobotanical ethnolinguistic data, to refine spatial temporal origin spread cultivated Africa. We built probability map domestication Eastern Africa using data Bayesian models. The Western Ethiopia, perfect concordance recent evidence. Calibrated on archaeological...
Crop evolutionary history and domestication processes are key issues for better conservation effective use of crop genetic diversity. Black white fonio (Digitaria iburua D. exilis, respectively) two small indigenous grain cereals grown in West Africa. The relationship between these cultivated crops wild Digitaria species is still unclear. Here, we analyse whole genome sequences 265 accessions comprising their close relatives. We show that black were the result independent domestications...
While narratives of the spread agriculture are central to interpretation African history, hard evidence past crops and cultivation practices still few. This research aims at filling this gap better understanding evolution foodways in West Africa. It reports from systematic flotation samples taken settlement mounds Sadia (Mali), dating 4 phases (phase 0=before first-third century AD; phase 1=mid eighth-tenth c. 2=tenth-eleventh 3=twelfth-late thirteenth AD). Flotation 2200 l soil provided...
In the context of “Crossroads Empires” project led by Anne Haour, one strand enquiry aims to understand history blacksmith groups and development iron production in Dendi country, northern Republic Benin. Numerous remains have been discovered, showing a great variability furnace design waste assemblages. At least three smelting traditions can be distinguished. this paper, we present site Kompa Moussékoubou (10 th /11 c. AD) which has investigated archaeological archaeometric methods. Beyond...
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Because they hold information about cultural identity, foodways have been the focus of a variety disciplines in archaeology. However, each approach documents different stages culinary preparation and is constrained by preservation specificities type artefact ecofact. Difficulties achieving an interdisciplinary may explain scarcity such studies. In this paper, we propose methodology that combines archaeozoological, carpological microbotanical analysis ecofacts retrieved sediment, with...
Abstract Kola nut ( Cola cf. nitida ) and Safou fruit Dacryodes edulis remains have been discovered in eleventh- to fourteenth-century archaeological contexts at Togu Missiri near Ségou Mali. These are evidence of early trade perishable foodstuffs from the West African forest zone into Middle Niger region. On basis these finds, this paper argues that long-distance links were well established by end first millennium AD. It thereby supports hypothesis dates inception between savanna regions...
Abstract The Nok culture in central Nigeria, dated 1500–1 cal bc , is known for its famous terracotta sculptures. We here present a study on > 11,000 botanical macro-remains from 50 sites, including 343 samples contexts and 22 dating between ad 100 400, after the end of culture. With 9,220 remains, pearl millet ( Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone, syn. Pennisetum glaucum R.Br.) dominant samples, followed by cowpea Vigna unguiculata Walp . ), Canarium schweinfurthii Engl., Nauclea latifolia...
Myanmar is located within an important geographic corridor of prehistoric demographic and technological exchange, yet relatively few archaeological sites have been securely dated. Here, the authors present a new radiocarbon chronology for Halin, UNESCO-listed complex in north-central Sagaing Division Myanmar, which contributes to generation nuanced regional chronologies improving temporal resolution Southeast Asia more generally. Discussion 94 determinates, together with site stratigraphy...
Les changements globaux affectent depuis quelques décennies les rizières estuariennes de Basse-Casamance : ils imposent aux cultivatrices nouvelles pratiques agricoles et influencent nouveaux choix semences. Cet article a pour objectif montrer comment représentations environnementales des leur permettent mettre en œuvre savoirs dynamiques qui participent à la continuité production rizicole, y compris dans un contexte agroécologique dégradé. résultats nos enquêtes montrent que care sont...
Since 2014 the Mission Archéologique Française au Myanmar has been excavating a prehistoric cemetery, Oakaie 1, adjacent to famous Nyaung’gan Bronze Age cemetery in Sagaing Division. 1 (OAI1) was selected as proxy order better understand Neolithic-Bronze Age-Iron chronological transitions upper-central Myanmar, for eventual regional-scale synthesis. An initial attempt AMS 14C date 13 human femurs failed due lack of collagen but subsequent effort using an apatite dating methodology on 5...
Cet article propose de s’intéresser à deux cimetières estimés la fin du deuxième au début premier millénaire avant notre ère et situés dans région Sagaing en Haute Birmanie : Oakaie 1 Nyaung’gan. Au total, soixante-et-une tombes ont été mises évidence. Elles livré un riche matériel archéologique, dont mobilier céramique qui présente des similitudes stylistiques d’un site l’autre. Partant ce constat, se sont alors posées les questions l’existence ou non traditions culturelles partagées...