Agriculture can evolve independently only where intensive hunter-gatherer plant use has previously evolved, and both developments are limited by two major evolutionary constraints: climatic variability and social convention. During the Pleistocene, environmental variability constrained plant productivity and therefore plant-intensive subsistence; but during the Holocene it was the hunter-gather...

This paper summarises the results of 225 studies seed impressions in pottery assemblages from 182 archaeological sites across Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu islands covering Late/Final Jomon–Middle Yayoi period (ca. 2000–1 BCE). Focussing on rice, foxtail millet broomcorn impressions, this archaeobotanical dataset was used to reconstruct when where these crops arrived Eurasian mainland islands, how...

Stable isotopic analyses of the remains plants that have been unearthed from archaeological sites are often featured as key indicators crop cultivation and living environment. However, systematic archaeobotanical studies not applied widely in Chinese historical sites, especially those Tang dynasty. This paper aims to use carbon nitrogen reveal potential influence water fertilizer conditions on ...

The Bronze Age in Europe is a dynamic time characterised by an increase long-distance mobility and interaction, changes social organisation, technological advancements evolving agricultural practices. In particular, we see the range of crops grown from middle Age, including introduction new crops, such as broomcorn millet broad bean. However, evidence practices Croatia limited. This paper prese...

This paper proposes to improve the information provided by biological indicators from sedimentary archives integrating biomolecular techniques and botanical skills. study represents a first proposal for combining pollen markers detect land use knowledge of past environmental change drivers. The specific aim research is verify relationship between miliacin (a pentacyclic triterpene methyl ether,...

Abstract Stable isotope-based dietary information on the tenth century CE Hungarian population serves as a valuable comparative tool to other stable isotope studies in region. This study presents multiproxy approach involving skeletal samples with least diagenetic alteration and best-preserved primary signals. Dental bone collected from three cemeteries northeastern Hungary were investigated us...

Abstract This paper presents the results from archaeobotanical remains collected ten medieval settlements and fort sites in region of present-day Slavonia, Croatia. From 12th century ad , Slavonia was part Kingdom Hungary, although benefited a certain amount autonomy. Examining data this period shows diverse agricultural system, where crop fields, gardens, orchards, pastures woodlands were all ...

The Huanghuai Plain is located in a transitional climate zone between the Yangtze River and Yellow valleys Central China, where mixed farming of millets rice appeared 8,000 years ago. However, when this specific agricultural model became primary subsistence strategy how crop structure developed area have not been confirmed, largely due to lack sufficient archaeobotanical evidence accurate chron...