scholarly journals Second Impressions: Expanding the Range of Cereals from Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Susan E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Triticum Monococcum ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Einkorn Wheat ◽  
Settlement Area ◽  
Plant Use ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Archaeobotanical Remains ◽  
Southern Greece

The southern Greek archaeological site of Franchthi Cave, with occupation dating from the Upper Paleolithic, remains the only site in southern Greece that both spans the shift from foraging to farming and has produced systematically recovered plant remains associated with this important transition in human prehistory. Previously reported archaeobotanical remains from the site derive exclusively from the cave interior, as none were recovered from outside the cave on the Franchthi Cave Paralia. This article reports the first evidence for plant use in the settlement area outside the cave, as provided by five seed impressions in Early Neolithic ceramic sherds from the Paralia. Significantly, this new data expands the range of crops represented at the site during the Early Neolithic to include einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L.), pushing back its appearance at Franchthi by several centuries.

Collecting and Preserving Botanical Materials of Archaeological Interest

1944 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elso S. Barghoorn
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Chemical Changes ◽  
Plant Remains

In archaeological sites plant remains are frequently encountered either as artifacts or as natural deposits. A study of such remains commonly yields much valuable information, not only for the archaeologist but for other investigators as well. Thus, the former vegetation of a region and its possible bearing upon the previously existing climate are often revealed. Both the botanist and the paleontologist are interested in the preservation of plant remains and the structural and chemical changes which they have undergone since their deposition or submergence. In addition, of course, the careful study of woody artifacts frequently affords significant information regarding the Customs and practices of primitive peoples in working their materials. In order that the greatest value may be obtained from a study of botanical materials, however, it is essential that certain precautions and techniques be used in collecting and preserving them. Unfortunately, much botanical information available in an archaeological site is either discarded or overlooked in the process of digging and exposing the site.

Colleagues and Friends: When Collaboration Becomes a Win, Win, Win—The Botanical Research Institute of Texas and Maya Research Program Work Together to Help an Archaeology Project Better Interpret and Protect a Small Portion of Rain Forest

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Grace Lloyd Bascopé ◽  
Thomas Guderjan ◽  
Will McClatchey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Plant Use ◽  
Plant Collections ◽  
Botanical Research ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Research Institute

Abstract Maya Research Program (MRP) has conducted archaeological investigations in Northwestern Belize for twenty plus years. We received a grant from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas to make plant collections in a rainforest remnant, home to the archaeological site of Grey Fox. The team at MRP wished to understand the forest to protect it and the site. In collaboration, we rendered samples of most plant species there, documented ethnobotanical information about the specimens, and gave new insights into ways the collections could be queried to potentially shed light on Ancient Maya plant use and adaptations, subsistence pattern evolution, climate change patterns, and more.

Study on the Immunoreactivity of Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) Wheat in Patients with Wheat-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis for the Production of Hypoallergenic Foods

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (37) ◽  
pp. 8299-8306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Lombardo ◽  
Michela Bolla ◽  
Roberto Chignola ◽  
Gianenrico Senna ◽  
Giacomo Rossin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Monococcum ◽  
Einkorn Wheat ◽  
Exercise Induced

Early Neolithic Land Use in Yugoslavia

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Barker
Keyword(s):  
Primary Objective ◽  
General Character ◽  
Economic Evidence ◽  
Plant Analysis ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Temperate Europe ◽  
Balkan Area

Ever since the publication of Gordon Childe's Danube in Prehistory, almost fifty years ago, the first neolithic colonisation of temperate Europe through the Balkans has been one of the cornerstones of European prehistory. There is still a consensus of opinion in most of the recent literature on the general character of this process: that it involved the transmission of farming techniques and probably the movement of groups of peoples—the first farmers. Farming was ‘carried into central Europe up the Danube … a stone-using agricultural peasantry was widely established in eastern Europe by 5000 B.C.’ (Piggott 1965, 46). However, it has been extremely difficult to proceed beyond this kind of general statement, because there is still an alarming shortage of detailed economic evidence from early neolithic sites in the Balkans. Plant remains and animal bones have been reported from neolithic sites scattered across the area (Murray 1970; Renfrew 1973), but in many cases the recovery of this kind of economic evidence was not the primary objective of excavation and, as a result, the methods employed to gather such evidence have rarely been sufficiently refined to meet the stringent requirements of modern faunal and plant analysis. Alexander (1972, 34) noted recently that, in the case of the First Neolithíc of Yugoslavia, ‘there is as yet no detailed analysis of the animmal bones from any site’ and adequate faunal and botanical reports from early neolithic excavations are still all too few in the Balkan area as a whole.

My State or Yours? Wari “Labor Camps” and the Inka Cult of Viracocha at Raqchi, Cuzco, Peru

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Sillar ◽  
Emily Dean ◽  
Amelia Pérez Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
The Political ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Labor Camps ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Temple

The archaeological site at Raqchi is best known for the large Inka building identified by colonial sources as the “temple of Viracocha.” The site also has an enclosure with 152 circular buildings that have previously been interpreted as Inka state storage: collcas. Although Inka pottery was found within some structures, the utilitarian pottery, carbonized plant remains, and hearths found on the floors of the buildings at Raqchi date their construction to the Middle Horizon. These results have caused a significant reinterpretation of the site and highlight a distinction between the political economies of the two largest Andean states. We suggest this sector of the site functioned as a Wari compound for seasonal work groups, similar to those at Pikillacta and Azángaro, suggesting a potential coercive aspect within Wari colonization. This prompts a reevaluation of the Viracocha cult during the Inka period, its reclaiming of Tiwanaku and Wari state sites, and the role of public ceremony within Inka state policy.

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