Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by
the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from …

Farming economy was first introduced to the coastal areas of Southern France by Impressa
groups (ca. 5850–5650 cal BC), originating from Italy, and subsequently spread to the …

In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant
changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical …

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 …

We used genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to investigate the evolutionary history of
domesticated tetraploid wheats. With a panel of 189 wild and domesticated wheats, we …

Mountain sites are usually seen as sites connected to pastoral or transhumant activities. This
paper proposes an alternative interpretation for Neolithic mountain sites found in the …

This paper explores the first maritime westward expansion of crops across the Adriatic and
the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Starting in Greece at c. 6500 cal BC and …

The objective of this paper is to assess foodstuff storage throughout Recent Prehistory (5600–
50 BCE) from the standpoint of the three different types (household, surplus and supra …

The Neolithic period in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula has received the attention of
many archaeologists during the XXth and XXIst centuries, from the earliest humanists like …