The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Horn of Africa dates to the Pre-Aksumite period
(ca. 1600 BCE). Domesticated C3 cereals are considered to have been introduced from the …

Abstract The Iron Age transition in sub-Saharan Africa represents a time when the
relationship between humans and their environment was fundamentally altered at near …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Madagascar is an exceptional example of island biogeography. Though a large island,
Madagascar's landmass is small relative to other places in the world with comparable levels …

How will archaeology contribute to agricultural sustainability? To address that question, this
overview reflects on the diverse and complementary ways that archaeology has advanced …

Sorghum bicolor, one of the world's five most important crops, originated in Africa. While this
has long been clear, accumulating data from both archaeobotany and genetics, provides the …

Palaeoethnobotanical studies completed at the archaeological site of Mezber in Tigrai,
Ethiopia, have led to important new insights on plant husbandry practices of the Pre …

Many societal and environmental changes occurred between the 2nd millennium BC and
the middle of the 2nd millennium AD in western Africa. Key amongst these were changes in …

Today, food insecurity is associated with both severe climatic shifts and pervasive poverty.
What is less well understood is how the problem of hunger came to take its present‐day …

Starch grain analysis carried out on 23 ceramic sherds from 6 refuse pits from the site of
Nachtigal in central Cameroon is shedding light on a longstanding debate regarding ancient …