Literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants (1992/1993)

Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops

“…In recent years, scientists have used molecular techniques to test and apply theories of crop origins put forward 150 yr ago by Darwin (1868) and De Candolle (1884) (Doebley et al, 1995;Gepts, 2004;Zohary, 2004;Fuller, 2007;Gregory, 2009;Brown, 2010). New works have increasingly recognized the importance of combining the relevant data from several fields to inform observations on crop domestication (Kroll, 2000;Nesbitt & Tanksley, 2002;Zeder et al, 2006;Vaughan et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2008;Purugganan & Fuller, 2009;Richards et al, 2009;Meyer et al, 2012).…”

Changing growing conditions for crops during the Near Eastern Bronze Age (3000–1200 BC): the stable carbon isotope evidence

“…During recent decades, our knowledge of agricultural decision-making in the past substantially increased through the acquisition and evaluation of bioarchaeological data, collected in numerous databases (Kreuz and Schaefer, 2002;Kroll, 2005;Riehl and Kümmel, 2005). Although we have a clear understanding of agricultural development for many areas and periods in the Near East and a considerable number of clarifying palaeoclimate proxies, the interrelationship between agricultural decision-making and climate change is still fragmentary (Riehl and Bryson, in press, and references therein).…”

Two early finds of gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sp.) in middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in western France

“…In Rumania, numerous Camelina seeds have been found together with linseed in the Sucidava Tell, Celei culture (Eneolithic-Bronze Age transition), end of the 3rd millennium BC (Cfirciumaru 1996). A single seed is reported from the Greek Final Neolithic site of Pefkakia-Magoula (end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd millennium BC) (Kroll 1991). The earliest example of Camelina in the Near East is from the northwest Aiiatolian site of Demircikiiyuk (Schlichtherle 1977/1978 inMiller 1991; Zohary & Hopf 19941, where scarce seeds retrieved from an ashy layer dating from the early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC), suggest that the plant was a weed (Miller 1991).…”