The excavation of the 8000-year-old Hidden Valley village has highlighted the importance of
wild plant exploitation in the Mid-Holocene contexts of the Farafra Oasis. This site yielded …

This paper presents direct evidence for cereal storage by Neolithic farmers in west Asia.
Storage features analyzed this study are circular clay bins that frequently occur at Neolithic …

Archaeobotanical analysis at Kaymakçı, a second-millennium BCE site in western Turkey,
gives the first evidence for Bronze Age agricultural practices in central western Anatolia, and …

This chapter brings together new archaeobotanical results from the 2009–2017 excavations
with previous work on the archaeobotany of Çatalhöyük. By synthesising the results from 25 …

This chapter presents a detailed report on the chipped stone from the 1995–99 excavations
at Çatalhöyük, documenting the material recovered from the North and South Areas, from …

The exploitation of cereal crops implies several working processes (eg preparation of land,
harvesting, selection of grain, subsequent use or disposal of the straw, storage and food …

The evidence for the slow development from gathering and cultivation of wild species to the
use of domesticates in the Near East, deriving from a number of Epipalaeolithic and …

Well-preserved plant remains found in clay bodies of Early Neolithic pottery of Southeastern
Europe have been largely understudied. The characteristics and provenance of this 'organic …

With the advent of sedentism, or living in permanent settlements, a new way of life began.
The hunter and gatherers' well established subsistence strategy of thousands of years …

Cereals and pulses have formed staple foods for the populations of the European continent
ever since the emergence of agriculture, yet the ways in which they have been processed …