Recent years have seen a boom in the study of rice genetics and evolution, as was to be expected given repeated sequencing entire genome. The most significant domestication-related genes received attention cloning genes. Two recent studies disclose numerous linked breaking. further articles on spread shattering since been published. Fresh insights from other areas plant science, such archaeobot...

Ancient plant remains hold information on past subsistence strategies and land use. Recent advances in the field of archaeobotany have broadened range techniques by which ancient can be studied. Archaeobotanical investigations show a diverse farming practices innovative solutions to social natural pressures. Descriptions use could integrated into models human–environment interactions, thus enab...

BACKGROUND The study of the prehistoric origins and dispersal routes of domesticated plants is often based on the analysis of either archaeobotanical or genetic data. As more data become available, spatially explicit models of crop dispersal can be used to combine different types of evidence. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We present a model in which a crop disperses through a landscape that ...

Plant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environmentin which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a widerange of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown? What was used for fuel? Do any of the plants comefrom distant lands? Examples from fourth and th...

This study focuses on the analysis of wood charcoal from Cova del Vidre (Roquetes, Tarragona, Spain). cave, located at an altitude 1000 m a.s.l., is a key site for understanding transition hunting and gathering to farming in mountainous region north-eastern Iberia so far unexplored by archaeobotany. The anthracological based four archaeological levels Epipalaeolithic Early Neolithic dated betwe...

The Bronze Age in Britain was a time of major social and cultural changes, reflected in the division of the landscape into field systems and the establishment of new belief systems and ritual practices. Several hypotheses have been advanced to explain these changes, and assessment of many of them is dependent on the availability of detailed palaeoenvironmental data from the sites concerned. Thi...

In the cultural heritage domain information systems are increasingly deployed, digital representations of physical objects are produced in immense numbers and there is a strong political pressure on memory institutions to make their holdings accessible to the public in digital form. The sector splits into a set of disciplines with highly specialized fields. Due to the resulting diversity, one c...

This study examines how the population at Çadır Höyük on north central Anatolian plateau modified agricultural and fuel use practices in response to rapid social environmental change between 3600 2900 BCE (Late Chalcolithic Transitional Early Bronze periods). Using descriptive multivariate statistics explore data from 60 archaeobotanical samples spanning three periods of occupation (3600–3200 B...