This paper presents the first known and systematically excavated Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in southwestern Thessaly at Imvrou Pigadi. The excavations situ finds, along with pronounced kiln structures, their typological classification pyrotechnological operation, suggests considerable expertise manufacture. itself, together chipped stone industry other small as well fauna archaeobotanica...

The recent study of botanical macro-remains from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic (5th to 8th century) fort Fulayj (Batinah, Sultanate Oman) provides a unique opportunity discuss food fuel acquisition strategies in an arid environment document periods that are little known archaeobotanical perspective Eastern Arabia. Seed assemblages include first well-identified directly radiocarbon dated e...

The archaeological site of Ancient Termez is located in southern Uzbekistan. Despite the arid environment, city benefited from its strategic position near two rivers, Amu Darya and Surkhan Darya. Its significance was mainly related to expansion trade routes connecting Eurasia. comprises several enclosures that attest long-term human-environment interactions. In order identify adaptive dynamics ...

The aim of this paper is to present recent advances in the microbotanical analyses an organic residue on a potsherd from late Holocene hunter-gatherer site Argentine Patagonia, which first evidence kind for processing starchy food. Standard methods were carried out starch grain recovery and morphometric analysis, care being taken prevention cross-contamination evaluation post-depositional facto...

Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai evidence such as rubbish middens. The ‘Incense Route’ linked Arabian Peninsula Red Sea Mediterranean Sea, activity peaking during Nabataean Roman periods. au...