Agriculture provided the foundation for the development and sustenance of Bronze and Iron Age civilizations in the Near East, yet remarkably little is known about how its practice varied across the region at this time. Archaeobotany and zooarchaeology have been used independently to study ancient agriculture, but there is a dire need for a more comprehensive and holistic approach, one that inte...

From the publisher: This is a treatment of plants mentioned in Old and New Testaments, their uses, ecology, history, beauty, symbolism. The book includes more than three hundred original photographs by author from field ethnobotanical studies over past four decades. Special attention has been paid to that have misunderstood previous treatments. Recent advances analytical techniques archaeobotan...

Abstract The urban center of Paykend was an exchange node just off the main corridor Silk Road in Bukhara Oasis on edge hyperarid Kyzyl–Kum Desert. city occupied from end 4 century B.C.E. to mid–12 C.E.; our study focuses Qarakhanid period (C.E. 999 – 1211), last imperial phase occupation at before its abandonment. In this study, we present results analysis archaeobotanical remains recovered a ...

Abstract Roasters are clay, quadrilateral vessels that found in areas of whole Slavic region. For years, there has been a discussion on their functionality, which various concepts use keep appearing. In this paper we present the results botanical and gas chromatographic studies carried out several fragments roasters originated Sudetes Mountain area Sudetic Foreland. The analyzed artefacts total...

Agricultural practices are key for understanding socio-economic change, community organization, and relationships with landscape the environment. Under Roman Empire, cereals were vital supplying urban military populations, yet cereal husbandry within villa landscapes remain underexplored. In this article, author applies new methods to analyse a large assemblage of charred plant remains from an ...