Updates on Archaeobotany

Chioma Ngonadi, Associate Editor for Archaeobotany

Online Resources

As a first step of promoting anthracological research in West Africa and in disclosing the groundwork of charcoal identification in the region on a wider basis than usually possible in supporting online material, SEM images of charcoal fragments from the site Mege, Nigeria are now openly accessible online via: https://arachne.dainst.org/catalog/954/616804.The aim is to provide a documentation, a reference and a basis for discussion of charcoal types present in (West) African charcoal assemblages. This is work in progress.

An online map with all the sites in Egypt where archaeobotanical analysis is ongoing have be created by Dr. Mennat-Allah El Dorry, Lecturer of Archaeobotany, Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University and a Postdoctoral Researcher, CNRS/ERC Desert Networks Project, HiSOMA, Lyon. The sites and information on the map will continuously be updated with new sites and bibliographic information. 

See the link attached: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1ovIeTG7iGDBE0Ip7- KOIlWA4bPBw6eiF&usp=sharing

Publications

A recent publication which presents the results of a three-year project ‘Neolithic human diet’ based on studies of coprolites from Swifterbant Culture sites excavated before 2007 is now online. The project was commissioned by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. https://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/publicaties/publicaties/2022/01/01/neolithic-human-diet

A new paper on rice domestication in India published open access in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. This link will take you to it and it is free to download.  https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org %2Farticles%2F10.3389%2Ffevo.2022.924977%2Ffull&data=05%7C01%7Cliuxinyi% 40wustl.edu%7C99780b5c0be64849c39f08da600297ba%7C4ccca3b571cd4e6d974b4d9beb9 6c6d6%7C0%7C0%7C637927861612314205%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoi MC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000% 7C%7C%7C&sdata=dDStIUULKF0Cy%2BP3Qky1x6WJb1esqOTOrqURr7zB43w%3 D&reserved=0

An article on stable isotope analysis on cereal grains at Gabii has been published. This is the first article on this subject for this period in central Italy. Find the link below: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YHURNZBGXUVKUYFB3UD6/full?target=10.1080/1 4614103.2022.2101281