The pressures on honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations, resulting from threats by modern
pesticides, parasites, predators and diseases, have raised awareness of the economic …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

The present study deals with a specific type of cylindrical pestle identified among several
thousands of macro-lithic tools studied so far for the Argaric Bronze Age (2200–1550 cal …

In this contribution, we investigated the role of plants in the prehistoric community of Casale
del Dolce (Anagni, FR, central Italy), through microparticles recovered from dental calculus …

During the past 30 years, molecular analyses have provided an important corpus of
evidence for the exploitation of Apis mellifera products, honey and beeswax, since the …

Despite the extended application of GC-MS for detecting organic residues from
archaeological ceramics, the potential of gas chromatography–high-resolution and accuracy …

This study is part of a long-term project attempts to better understand the content and use of
pottery vessels in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Jordan by examining organic residues …

The honeybee originally migrated to the Levant and northeast Africa sometime during the
early Pleistocene (300,000 BP) from her ancestral home in southeast Asia. The evolved …

In Virgil's Aeneid (12.415–422), the goddess Venus hastens to heal her wounded son
Aeneas while carrying a branch of the plant dictamus, better known today as dittany of Crete …

This chapter presents the results of the GC-MS analysis of absorbed residues from 30
ceramic sherds obtained from five early Neolithic (c. 6000-5100 BC) and Late Eneolithic (c …