Abstract The Nok culture in central Nigeria, dated 1500–1 cal bc , is known for its famous terracotta sculptures. We here present a study on > 11,000 botanical macro-remains from 50 sites, including 343 samples contexts and 22 dating between ad 100 400, after the end of culture. With 9,220 remains, pearl millet ( Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone, syn. Pennisetum glaucum R.Br.) dominant sampl...

Currently, there are some 222 records in the Nottinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) which are relevant to the First Millennium B.C. These records include 19 finds of Late Bronze Age metalwork, 5 examples of Iron Age metalwork, 9 find-spots of Iron Age coins, 57 find-spots of pottery ascribed to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, 21 finds of other objects ascribed to these two periods, ...

Baligang is a Neolithic site on a northern tributary of the middle Yangtze and provides a long archaeobotanical sequence from the Seventh Millennium BC upto the First Millennium BC. It provides evidence for developments in rice and millet agriculture influenced by shifting cultural affiliation with the north (Yangshao and Longshan) and south (Qujialing and Shijiahe) between 4300 and 1800 BC. Th...

Archaeological research demonstrates that an agropastoral economy was established in Tibet during the second millennium BC, aided by cultivation of barley introduced from South-western Asia. The exact cultural contexts emergence and development agropastoralism Tibet, however, remain obscure. Recent excavations at site Bangga provide new evidence for settled central demonstrating a material dive...

Of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium BC, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. Archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. The study of the techniques ...

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...