https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/12/cereal-in-libya-earlier-than-egypt-new.html?showComment=1604340763765
The Archaeobotanist: Cereal in Libya earlier than Egypt? New data from Huah Fteah
The spread of agriculture to Egypt presents a number of contrasts from that in Europe of east of the Fertile Crescent. For one thing it seem...
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/structured-diversity-in-tea-does-not.html?showComment=1686258792272
The Archaeobotanist: Structured diversity in tea does not mean multiple domestications
Genetic population structure of tea. When and where were tea domesticated? And how many times? This is a question I get asked somet...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/08/tuareg-trade-archaeobotany.html
The Archaeobotanist: Tuareg Trade & Archaeobotany
A new article in the latest Azania (in its new format), reports on the excavations at Tadmakka, in northeast Mali, carried out by Sam Nixon ...
tuaregtradearchaeobotany
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-anti-neolithic-of-cyprus.html?showComment=1622473277245
The Archaeobotanist: On the Anti-Neolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the first place that we know that crops and livestock were spread to by human action. This even took place before domesticat...
antineolithiccyprus
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2010/07/archaeobotanical-photo-sharing-platform.html
The Archaeobotanist: Archaeobotanical photo-sharing platform
A couple of enterprising Harvard students have built a facebook of seeds, or rather a kind of networking platform for uploading images of ar...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2018/01/in-memoriam-alison-weisskopf-1960-2018.html?showComment=1516277933668
The Archaeobotanist: In Memoriam Alison Weisskopf (1960-2018)
Alison and Oryza nivara in Orissa, Sept. 2010 Alison Weisskopf (1960-2018), passed away peacefully in hospice in the presence of her...
in memoriamalison
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-indicators-of-early-northern-rice.html
The Archaeobotanist: More indicators of the early northern rice dispersal
More evidence from the phytolith research group at the Chinese Institute of Geology in Beijing indicates that rice dispersal rapidly northwa...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2019/07/panicum-domestication-and-early.html?showComment=1611821410617
The Archaeobotanist: Panicum domestication and early sedentism in Northeast China
For the past decade the Xinglongwa culture of eastern Inner Mongolia (Liao River valley) has been regarded as a likely cultural context f...
panicumdomesticationearlynortheastchina
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/08/millets-and-mistakes.html
The Archaeobotanist: Millets and Mistakes
In Last week's Science the journalist Andrew Lawler, published an extended series of News Focus articles on Chinese civilization . The centr...
milletsmistakes
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-genome-map-that-is-not-map-of-origins.html
The Archaeobotanist: A genome map that is not a map of origins (Rice Genetics Watch returns)
Last week Nature ran an article ( Huang et al ) with the headline that " A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of culti...
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/01/globalization-of-bananas-in-3-acts.html
The Archaeobotanist: Globalization of bananas in 3 acts. Recent updates
Bananas are an intriguing fruit. Quick growing, and tall, tropical herbs, rather than real trees, known pretty much everywhere today from th...
globalizationbananasactsrecentupdates
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2018/01/in-memoriam-alison-weisskopf-1960-2018.html?showComment=1516328259001
The Archaeobotanist: In Memoriam Alison Weisskopf (1960-2018)
Alison and Oryza nivara in Orissa, Sept. 2010 Alison Weisskopf (1960-2018), passed away peacefully in hospice in the presence of her...
in memoriamalison
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/04/millet-watch-new-dadiwan-isotope.html
The Archaeobotanist: Millet Watch: new Dadiwan isotope results
The recent article in PNAS by Loukas Barton et al ., on stable isotopes (of people, dogs and pigs) from the site of Dadiwan has provided new...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2018/09/pearl-millet-genomics-and-domestication.html?showComment=1732196068361
The Archaeobotanist: Pearl Millet genomics and domestication centre
Modern genomes have the potential to reveal alot about evolutionary history and past geography of a crop. Of course there are some limit...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2010/07/arrival-of-wheat-in-china.html?showComment=1280006316208
The Archaeobotanist: The arrival of wheat in China
The extensive set of direct dates, on the largest early assemblage of wheat and barley in China, provides important new evidence on the arri...
arrivalwheatchina
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-more-nano-diamonds.html
The Archaeobotanist: No more nano-diamonds
As many know, in the last few years the Younger Dryas (or, Greenlanf Interstadial 1, if you prefer) has received quite a bit of attention ...
no morenanodiamonds
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-anti-neolithic-of-cyprus.html?showComment=1727684133594
The Archaeobotanist: On the Anti-Neolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the first place that we know that crops and livestock were spread to by human action. This even took place before domesticat...
antineolithiccyprus
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-book-biodiversity-in-agriculture.html
The Archaeobotanist: new book: Biodiversity in Agriculture Domestication, Evolution, and...
Apparently just out from Cambridge University Press. I haven't seen the final form yet, but it contains 8 or 9 archaeological (archaeobotani...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2010/07/arrival-of-wheat-in-china.html?showComment=1636107716452
The Archaeobotanist: The arrival of wheat in China
The extensive set of direct dates, on the largest early assemblage of wheat and barley in China, provides important new evidence on the arri...
arrivalwheatchina
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/03/han-period-pompeii-includes-farmland.html
The Archaeobotanist: Han period 'Pompeii' includes farmland
In the latest Antiquity Kidder, Liu and Li report on Sanyanzhuang , a settlement buried by catastrophic Yellow River floods around AD 23. Th...
hanperiodpompeiiincludesfarmland
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2019/05/thai-rice-archaeobotanical-study-win.html
The Archaeobotanist: Thai rice archaeobotanical study win Ben Cullen prize
A recent paper from the UCL Early Rice project has received the BenCullen prize from Antiquity for 2019 (jointly with other excellen...
thai ricestudywinbencullen
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/archaeobotany-of-near-eastern.html
The Archaeobotanist: Archaeobotany of Near Eastern domestication: new special issue
The latest issue of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (Feb. 2012) is a special issue on Near Eastern origins: From collecting to cult...
near easternarchaeobotanydomesticationnewspecial
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2011/10/recognizing-immature-millets.html
The Archaeobotanist: Recognizing immature millets
Recently published on-line is an highly significant, but rather unassuming paper, about variation in millet grains due to immaturity. Mot...
recognizingimmaturemillets
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-anti-neolithic-of-cyprus.html?showComment=1676669354625
The Archaeobotanist: On the Anti-Neolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the first place that we know that crops and livestock were spread to by human action. This even took place before domesticat...
antineolithiccyprus
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2009/08/gordon-hillman-honoured-with.html
The Archaeobotanist: Gordon Hillman honoured with Feitschrift
Yesterday, Gordon Hillman had some surprise visitors, Andy Fairbairn and Ehud Wiess (and I tagged along), who presented him with a feitschri...
gordonhillmanhonoured
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2011/12/de-centering-fertile-crescent.html
The Archaeobotanist: De-centering the fertile crescent
The Near Eastern "fertile crescent" is the classic centre of origin for domesticated plants. Although when James Breasted coined the term (...
decenteringfertilecrescent
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/03/early-plant-cords-in-rock-art.html
The Archaeobotanist: Early plant cords in rock art?
In the lastest Antiquity project gallery, " fibre technology depicted in archaic art " is a re-interpretion of some rock art from Borneo, a...
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2010/07/divergence-and-gene-flow-between-wild.html?showComment=1292186999127
The Archaeobotanist: Divergence and gene-flow between the wild rices
A important study has recently come out in the journal Molecular Ecology , on "Ecological divergence in the face of gene flow in two clos...
gene flowdivergencewildrices
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-anti-neolithic-of-cyprus.html?showComment=1741997182704
The Archaeobotanist: On the Anti-Neolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the first place that we know that crops and livestock were spread to by human action. This even took place before domesticat...
antineolithiccyprus
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-burma-to-japan-more-on-rice-and.html
The Archaeobotanist: From Burma to Japan: more on rice and linguistics
Two additional paper on rice/cereal agriculture spread and historical linguistics have been published on-line. I recall both from their pres...
more onburma
https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2011/12/from-domestication-to-global-warming.html
The Archaeobotanist: From domestication to Global Warming: the Early Rice Project in Archaeology...
2012 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the London Institute of Archaeology (which is now part of UCL), and semi-popular journal Ar...
global warming
https://archaeobotanist.com/
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May 26, 2021 - Experienced archaeobotanist and environmental archaeologist available to undertake rapid assessments to full analysis on a range of plant macrofossils.
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https://archaeobotanist.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-anti-neolithic-of-cyprus.html?showComment=1609150998995
The Archaeobotanist: On the Anti-Neolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus is the first place that we know that crops and livestock were spread to by human action. This even took place before domesticat...
antineolithiccyprus