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Archaeological fuel remains as indicators of ancient west Asian agropastoral and land-use systems
Naomi F. Miller,John M. Marston +1 more
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In this paper, the authors show how archaeobotanical data can be used to reconstruct agropastoral systems in the different rainfall agriculture environments of northern Mesopotamia and central Anatolia.About:
This article is published in Journal of Arid Environments.The article was published on 2012-11-01. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Paleoethnobotany & Woodland.read more
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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction
TL;DR: Brooks Hedstrom as discussed by the authors traces how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism, and provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape.
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An ethnoarchaeological study of cooking installations in rural Uzbekistan: development of a new method for identification of fuel sources
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy to detect changes in the clay mineral structure due to exposure to high temperatures on the interior walls of cooking installations.
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The effect of charring and burial on the biochemical composition of cereal grains: investigating the integrity of archaeological plant material
Amy Styring,H. Manning,Rebecca Fraser,Michael Wallace,Glynis Jones,Michael Charles,Tim H.E. Heaton,Amy Bogaard,Richard P. Evershed +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a suite of analytical techniques, including FT-IR and solid state 13C NMR, were used to characterise changes in the biochemical composition of modern einkorn grains with heating at 230 °C for 2 h, 4 h, 8 h and 24 h, encompassing conditions that replicate their undistorted ancient counterparts.
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Ecotopes and Herd Foraging Practices In the Steppe/Mountain Ecotone of Central Asia During the Bronze and Iron Ages
TL;DR: In this article, wild seed composition of archaeobotanical samples from the Bronze and Iron Age site of Begash in southeastern Kazakhstan is discussed, noting that much of the assemblage represents carbonized animal dung, which is currently and historically used as fuel in this region by mobile pastoralists.
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The Rise of Pastoralism in the Ancient Near East
TL;DR: A history of pastoralism in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age is presented in this article, where the authors describe the accretional development of pastoral technologies over eight millennia, including the productive breeding of domestic sheep, goats, and cattle.
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Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the transition in human history from the hunting-and-gathering to the farming way of life, which is documented first hand in the book.
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Reconstructing Woodland Vegetation and its Exploitation by Past Societies, based on the Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Wood Charcoal Macro-Remains
Eleni Asouti,Phil Austin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the significance of the analysis of archaeological wood charcoal macro-remains as a tool for the reconstruction of woodland vegetation and its exploitation is discussed, drawing from both older and more recent publications a number of theoretical and methodological approaches are examined.
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Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East
TL;DR: The role of climate change in the origins of agriculture in the Southern Levant has been investigated in this paper, where the authors present a tool for understanding Paleoenvironments of the Near East.
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Charcoal Analysis and the « Principle of Least Effort »―A Conceptual Model
Charlie M. Shackleton,F. Prins +1 more
TL;DR: A conceptual model is presented to determine situations in which the Principle of Least Effort may, or may not, apply, and helps identify when the PLE may be a useful model for interpretation of appropriate data sets.
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