Background There is currently renewed interest in foods based on ancient cereals because
consumers often consider such foods to be healthy and sustainable. Interest in ancient …

The discipline 'urban ethnopharmacology'emerged as a collection of traditional knowledge,
ancient civilizations, history and folklore being circulated since generations, usage of …

The detection of direct archaeological remains of alcoholic beverages and their production
is still a challenge to archaeological science, as most of the markers known up to now are …

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …

The analysis of starch grains from food-related archaeological artefacts and human dental
calculus has provided evidence for the consumption of plant resources worldwide. Recently …

The analysis of charred food crust from cooking vessels offers an opportunity to recover and
study residues originating from culinary practices, such as phytoliths from cereal-based …

This article provides a new archaeobotanical synthesis for prehistoric Crete. It brings
together all the published plant records from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites across the …

Cereal remains are common and important archaeological finds, providing crucial evidence
for the origin and development of agriculture. Many previous studies have utilized one or …

The Aegean hosts some of the earliest cultural centers in European antiquity. To reconstruct
the evolution of early anthropogenic impact in this region, we have examined lead (Pb) …

This paper assesses a series of experimentally generated cereal fragments with the aim to
develop criteria for interpreting archaeological remains of ground cereals. Modern grain of …