Orphan crops of archaeology‐based crop history research

D Fuks, F Schmidt, MI García‐Collado… - Plants, People …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide.
Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including 'forgotten'and …

[HTML][HTML] Cotton and post-Neolithic investment agriculture in tropical Asia and Africa, with two routes to West Africa

DQ Fuller, L Champion, CC Castillo… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article provides an up-to-date review of the origins and spread of cottons in the Old
World based on archaeobotanical evidence, and explores the routes and socioeconomic …

Living work ethics of Muslim entrepreneurs in Tasikmalaya City, Indonesia

R Rosyad, DA Mardani… - Religious: Jurnal Studi …, 2022 - journal.uinsgd.ac.id
This study aimed to analyze Muslim entrepreneurs' work ethic who can directly contribute to
the City's economic growth where they live, namely Tasikmalaya City of West Java of …

Strontium isotope evidence for Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation in Arabia

SE Ryan, É Douville, A Dapoigny… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With a view to understanding the dynamics of ancient trade and agrobiodiversity,
archaeobotanical remains provide a means of tracing the trajectories of certain agricultural …

Crop processing, consumption and trade of Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the Arabian Peninsula during Antiquity: earliest evidence from Mleiha (third c. AD), United …

V Dabrowski, C Bouchaud, M Tengberg… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) was identified, among other plant remains, from several contexts
in a fortified elite residence at the site of Mleiha (United Arab Emirates) that was partially …

Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road: the silk and cotton finds from Nahal Omer, Negev Desert

B Hildebrandt, O Shamir, R Galili, N Shamir, G Bar-Oz - Antiquity, 2023 - cambridge.org
Excavations at Nahal Omer, an Early Islamic way station in the Negev Desert (sixth to ninth
centuries AD), have yielded exotic textiles such as silks and cottons. Through a new study of …

[HTML][HTML] The provenance of ancient cotton and wool textiles from Nubia: Insights from technical textile analysis and strontium isotopes

MM Wozniak, Z Belka - Journal of African Archaeology, 2022 - brill.com
Late antique and medieval cotton and wool textiles found in the middle Nile Valley (Nubia,
northern Sudan) were analysed for their technical characteristics and strontium (Sr) isotope …

A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period

V Dabrowski, C Bouchaud, X Desormeau… - Vegetation History and …, 2024 - Springer
Agriculture in the arid Arabian Peninsula became established during the early Bronze Age
and relied, at least in eastern Arabia, on the cultivation of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) …

Identifying locals vs non-locals using 87Sr/86Sr isotope analysis: a multimethod approach in the homogeneous environments of the Arabian Gulf

J Littleton, CB Smith - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Archaeological strontium isotope investigations of the movement of peoples and animals
rely on different methods to characterize a “local” strontium range. In geologically …

In the search for the origin of the barley at Norse farms in Greenland

PS Henriksen, R Frei, AMJ Stevnsvig… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Strontium (Sr) isotope analyses were performed on a number of individual charred grains of
barley recovered from two selected Norse middens (Ø35; Ø49) in southwestern Greenland …