The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Horn of Africa dates to the Pre-Aksumite period
(ca. 1600 BCE). Domesticated C3 cereals are considered to have been introduced from the …

Archaeological sites with surface hearths are a ubiquitous feature across the arid zones of
the Arabian interior. At Jebel Oraf, in the Jubbah basin of the Nefud Desert of northern …

This study presents the results of integrated isotopic and dental calculus analyses of a
number of individuals buried in two cemeteries of Roman and medieval chronology in …

The analysis of charred food crust from cooking vessels offers an opportunity to recover and
study residues originating from culinary practices, such as phytoliths from cereal-based …

Formentera was one of the last Mediterranean islands to be colonized by humans at the end
of the third millennium BC. This island is rather small (83 km2) with marked biogeographical …

In archaeology, the study of past plant processing activities in domestic spaces has hitherto
relied greatly on the observed distribution of macrobotanical and artefactual remains …

Understanding the neolithisation process in northern Europe requires detailed knowledge of
both the type of crop plants as well as gathered food plants from Neolithic Funnel Beaker …

The transition to agriculture-based economies and sedentary lifeways during the Neolithic
brought significant changes in oral health and diet. Despite the influence of physiological …

Most interpretations of ground stone artefacts are still based on their form and depositional
contexts and lack scientific functional assessments, such as use-wear analysis and …

Abstract Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that
dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the …