Ancient Seeds Reveal Secrets of Ban Chiang
The Penn Museum's Year of Botany at Ban Chiang, Thailand, uses archaeobotany to study ancient plant remains, revealing insights into ...
Tag: archaeobotany
Subfield of archaeology studying plant remains from archaeological sites.
[Paper] Early Holocene exploitation of taro and yam among southern East Asian hunter-gatherers
Southern East Asian hunter-gatherers exploited taro and yam 10,000 years ago, supporting population growth before rice farming. #southeastasianarchaeology #Holocene #China ...
[Paper] Identification of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis
Study reveals Rapa Nui's early settlers grew Polynesian and South American crops, based on starch analysis of tools.
[Paper] The Early Holocene Hoabinhian (8300-8000 cal BC) occupation from Hiem Cave, Vietnam
via Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2023: Paper by Masojć et al looking at a Hoabinhian assemblage in Hoa Binh province in ...
[Paper] Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming
via Nature, 1 February 2023: Analaysis of an embalming workshop suggest that some of the materials used to preserve the ...
[Paper] Before Rice and the First Rice: Archaeobotanical Study in Ha Long Bay, Northern Vietnam
via Frontiers in Earth Science, 30 June 2022: New-ish paper by Wang et al. show how hunter-gatherers from 7,000 - ...
[Call for Proposals] PEMSEA Research Awards on Early Modern Southeast Asia
via PEMSEA, 12 December 2022: Research funding under PEMSEA for studies in the early modern period. The deadline for applications ...
Opportunities for students – Southeast Asian Archaeology Lab
Dr Alison Carter of the University of Oregon is looking for PhD students for her Pteah Project in Cambodia. If ...
[Paper] Early Austronesians Cultivated Rice and Millet Together: Tracing Taiwan’s First Neolithic Crops
via Frontiers in Plant Science, 22 July 2022: Analysis of plant remains in northern Taiwan indicate that rice and millet ...
[Talk] Contribution of archaeology in our understanding of People-Plant relationships in the Philippines
via Museo ng Kaalamáng Katutubò - a lecture by Prof. Victor Paz happening next Thursday. Details in the link below.
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