The present study investigates the occurrence of wild grasses at Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites in the Near East in order to assess their role in subsistence economies alongside the emergence of cereal cultivation. We use Chogha Golan in the foothills of the central Zagros Mountains (ca. 11.7-9.6 ka cal. BP) as a case study, where the archaeobotanical data suggest the frequent exp...

For the early Iron Age Elymian town on Monte Polizzo, inland western Sicily, hulled barley was the dominant cereal, followed by emmer and free-threshing wheat. The dominant legume was Vicia faba. In the contemporary Greek harbour town of Selinunte on the southern coast of western Sicily, free-threshing wheat was dominant, while hulled barley and the legume V. ervilia were subdominant. For Selin...

We present a new multi-analytical approach to the characterization of black pigments in Spanish Levantine rock art. This new protocol seeks to identify the raw materials that were used, as well as reconstruct the different technical gestures and decision-making processes involved in the obtaining of these black pigments. For the first of these goals, the pictorial matter of the black figurative...

This article presents research results from the archaeological excavation in territory of Dominikonų St. 11 Vilnius Old Town. In order to present as thorough dietary reconstructions people who lived here possible, four groups evidence were combined together: artifacts, historical datasets, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical investigation. The analyzed materials are covering a wide chronolog...

The history of cotton (Gossypium sp), which has become along past millennia a plant major economic interest, relies on the dried or charred seeds found in archaeobotanical assemblages. Our capacity to document dispersal routes cotton, however, is hampered by lack taxonomic resolution at specific levels based current seed anatomic features. In order explore signal interspecific level seeds, and ...

The collection of papers in this special issue arose from the 2018 and 2019 workshops Integrated Microscopy Approaches Archaeobotany (henceforth IMAA), hosted by University Reading, UK. IMAA has an interdisciplinary ethos not only brings together students specialists to facilitate cross-sector exchanges a broad variety skills, but also discussions that take place there are driven practical micr...