Plant Husbandry in Early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia, Greece

Zeist, W. van; Bottema, Sytze

doi:10.1111/j.1438-8677.1971.tb00736.x

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“…Further archeological evidence that lentil was being cultivated and traded around this time comes from carbonized lentil seeds from the relatively distant locations of Tell Ramad in Syria (6250-5950 BC), Beidha in Jordan, Hacilar in Turkey (5800-5000 BC), and Sabz in Iran (5500-5000 BC) (Van Zeist and Bottema 1971;Helbeck 1959Helbeck , 1963Helbeck , 1970 These discoveries represent the oldest evidence that humans had begun farming.…”

Section: Prehistorical Datamentioning

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Grain Legumes

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Handbook of Plant Breeding

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The field of plant breeding covers a broad range of different species and categories of plants. While there are many techniques and issues that are similar across these species, many more are unique to each genus.The Handbook of Plant Breeding is organized by major crop categories and includes the most up-to-date molecular techniques being used. It will serve as a resource for plant breeding laboratories in both the university and industrial setting.More information about this series at

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Section: Prehistorical Datamentioning

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“…Representative samples come from early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia, Macedonia (13), Aeneolithic Tell Karanovo and Tel Azmak, Bulgaria (47), and Neolithic Cascioarele, Romania (47). Finally, numerous finds of bitter vetch are reported from Bronze Age sites in the Near East and the Balkan countries.…”

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“…Lentils are common in Nea Nikomedeia, Macedonia, about 5500 B.C. (13) and appear also in aceramic Ghediki, Thessaly (14), in the preceramic basal level of Argissa-Magula, Thessaly (29), in Knossos, Crete, about 6000 B.C. (30), and in early Bulgarian sites such as Tell Karanovo (31).…”

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Domestication of Pulses in the Old World

Zohary

Hopf

1973

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This article reviews the available information on the place of origin and time of domestication of the cultivated pea (Pisum sativum), lentil (Lens culinaris), broad bean (Vicia faba), bitter vetch (V. ervilia), and chickpea (Cicer arietinum). On the basis of (i) an examination and evaluation of archeological remains and (ii) an identification of the wild progenitors and delimitation of their geographic distribution, it was concluded that pea and lentil should be regarded as founder crops of Old World Neolithic agriculture. Most probably they were domesticated, in the Near East, simultaneously with wheats and barley (certainly not later than the sixth millennium B.C.). Bitter vetch shows a similar mode of origin. The evidence on the broad bean and the chickpea is much more fragmentary and the wild progenitors of these legumes are yet not satisfactorily identified. But also these two pulses emerge as important food elements in Bronze Age cultures of the Near East and Europe.

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“…Anatolia is a region of distinct climatic and environmental differences; the coastal areas are mostly humid, with parts of the western shores never receiving frost, in contrast to the eastern Highlands that can be covered with snow for several months of the year (Van Zeist and Bottema, 1991). Northwest Anatolia is nestled within these extremes, and experiences a warm temperate climate that is home, predominantly, to C 3 terrestrial vegetation resistant to cold conditions.…”

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Diet uniformity at an early farming community in northwest Anatolia (Turkey): carbon and nitrogen isotope studies of bone collagen at Aktopraklık

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Karul

Alpaslan-Roodenberg³

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Aktopraklık is a settlement site composed of three areas (A-C) in the Marmara region of northwest Anatolia, with phases of occupation that date to the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods, mid-seventh to mid-sixth millennium BC (ca. 6400-5600 cal. BC). Here, we present 54 human and fauna bone collagen stable isotope results from the site, alongside five modern fish bone collagen isotope results, to examine the nature of human diet. The stable isotope analysis shows that human diet comprised the consumption of select C 3 terrestrial resources, with a preference for domestic animal proteins over plant proteins. The evidence to date suggests that animal husbandry was at the forefront of Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic subsistence practices. No isotopic difference in humans is observed between biological sex or between areas B and C at the settlement.

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Plant Husbandry in Early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia, Greece

Abstract: For the early Neolithic site of Nea Nikomedeia in northern Greece (ca. 5470 RG) the following plant species could be established:

Cited by 38 publications

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Domestication of Pulses in the Old World

Diet uniformity at an early farming community in northwest Anatolia (Turkey): carbon and nitrogen isotope studies of bone collagen at Aktopraklık

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