Silica is deposited extra-and intracellularly in plants in solid form, as phytoliths. Phytoliths
have emerged as accepted taxonomic tools and proxies for reconstructing ancient flora …

Small millets are very promising agricultural entity to ensure global food security. They
gained remarkable importance in agriculture due to their resilience to climatic changes and …

The emergence of complex societies represents one of the major developments of human
prehistory. Diverse agricultural strategies were implemented to produce the increased grain …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

长期以来, 由于受到考古样品保存和研究方法的限制, 成都平原先秦农业结构变化,
人类生业方式, 农业发展与微环境的关系等研究尚不够完善. 本文对成都平原的新津宝墩遗址和 …

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 …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

The Peiligang Culture (9000-7000 cal. yr BP) in the Middle Yellow River region, North
China, has long been considered representative of millet farming. It is still unclear, however …

The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a
great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the …

Hulled grains, while providing natural protection for seeds, pose a challenge to manual
threshing due to the pair of glumes tightly encasing them. Based on natural evolution and …