Over the last decades, the Mediterranean diet gained enormous scientific, social, and
commercial attention due to proven positive effects on health and undeniable taste that …

Evidence of plant food processing is a significant indicator of the human ability to exploit
environmental resources. The recovery of starch grains associated with use-wear on …

Previous studies suggested that the copy number of the human salivary amylase gene,
AMY1, correlates with starch-rich diets. However, evolutionary analyses are hampered by …

Despite being one of the most important crops in the recent prehistory of Eurasia, the arrival
and exploitation of millets in the westernmost part of Europe are still largely underexplored …

The paper discusses a multi-proxy archaeobotanical dataset from the published
macrobotanical and microbotanical research of 19 Epipalaeolithic sites over a period of 13.5 …

Abstract The Neolithic communities of Eastern Sudan combined intensive pastoralism with
plant exploitation as their main subsistence strategies. However, to date, it remains unclear …

Looking for a biological fingerprint relative to new aspects of the relationship between
humans and natural environment during prehistoric times is challenging. Although many …

Plants have always represented a key element in landscape delineation. Indeed, plant
diversity, whose distribution is influenced by geographic/climatic variability, has affected …

Analyses of plant microfossils retrieved from grinding and polishing stones are shown to
constitute a reliable line of evidence to unveil the functions of these stone implements at the …

Plants and plant-based foods played a crucial role in human evolution, and the interaction
between plants and humans is a highly debated topic in archaeology. Ground stone tools …