This book is concerned with questions on the times when and the places where a range of
plants were domesticated in the classical Old World (ie south-west Asia, Europe and Africa …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

The accumulation of recent data from archaeobotany, archaeozoology and Neolithic
excavations from across South Asia warrants a new overview of early agriculture in the …

Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern
Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called …

The earliest direct dates of wheat in East Asia come from Donghuishan in Gansu Province,
China. Few other dates of wheat in East Asia are direct dates. The previous direct dates at …

The spread of agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula is documented from at least ca. 5600–
5500 BC, although botanical data are absent or very limited for large areas …

The wide and diverse array of palaeoenvironmental studies that were carried out in
Northwestern Iberia indicate that the Bronze Age corresponds to a phase of great landscape …

At three Neolithic sites and one Bronze Age site in northern Greece, spikelet bases of a
“new” type of glume wheat have been recovered. These spikelet bases are morphologically …

A review of archaeobotanical data, together with new, still unpublished data, from Roman
sites in conventus Bracaraugustanus suggests the Romanization of the northwest Iberia …

This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in
2012. Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct …