Barbara Cerasetti

TL;DR: This article presents a new archaeobotanical analysis from pastoralist campsites in the mountain and desert regions of Central Eurasia that documents the oldest known evidence for domesticated grains and farming among seasonally mobile herders.

TL;DR: In this article, the macro-botanical remains from two Late/Final Bronze Age (ca. 1950-1300 bc) mobile pastoralist habitation sites in the Murghab alluvial fan region of southern Turkmenistan were reported.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that while the subsistence economies are distinct at urban and non-urban sites, the ceramic production and trade interactions are significantly intertwined and more complex than the traditional sedentary-mobile dichotomy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a paleo-ethnobotanical study conducted on sediment samples from excavation units at the site of Adji Kui 1, Turkmenistan was conducted, showing that a very different landscape existed around the site in the past and that the economy was heavily reliant on farming of several different crops, as well as wild resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between the location of archaeological sites and mapped ancient watercourses (palaeochannels) through time is examined. But the authors focus on the northeastern Murghab alluvial fan (Turkmenistan) as a window into this complex period, and examine one aspect of human-environmental dynamics there, namely, the relationship that the location and access to water can correlate to different processes of socio-territorial control.