Two millets, Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica, were domesticated in northern China,
around 6000 BC. Although its oldest evidence is in Asia, possible independent …

One of the world's most important crops, barley, was domesticated in the Near East around
11,000 years ago. Barley is a highly resilient crop, able to grown in varied and marginal …

Livestock dung is a valuable material in many rural communities worldwide. In our research
area, the site of Althiburos and its surroundings, now el Médéïna, in northwestern Tunisia …

Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …

Research on the earliest Neolithic in the South Caucasus is still in its early stages.
Establishing a solid chronological framework will help determine the timing of the …

This paper presents and evaluates the archaeobotanical and archaeological evidence of
plant product storage from Early and Late Neolithic sites in Serbia, southeast Europe. The …

On the basis of new data coming from recent excavations and the re-examination of former
publications, a synthesis of architectural techniques in the Southern Caucasus Neolithic is …

Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence
of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium bc This …

Agriculture dependent almost exclusively on cereal cultivation was practiced in the South
Caucasus, beginning with the Kura-Araxes culture and continued for more than two and a …

The mechanisms responsible for the emergence of a farming economy in Transcaucasia
have been the subject of much debate since the 1970's. This debate has focused particularly …