An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran
Plant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environmentin which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a widerange of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown?...
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Archaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
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| description | Plant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environmentin which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a widerange of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown? What was used for fuel? Do any of the plants comefrom distant lands? Examples from fourth and third millennium deposits at Farukhabad, Sharafabad, Godin, and Malyanshow that within the basic agricultural assemblage of wheat and barley shared by all sites, Sharafabad and Godin havestronger evidence of irrigation, lentil and flax, and Farukhabad appears to be more oriented toward pastoral productionthan the other sites. This article provides an introduction to archaeobotany using examples drawn from several fourth andthird millennium sites in southern and western Iran. Human impact on the vegetation in Khuzestan and Fars appears tohave been minimal at this time. A few unexpected finds (a date pit from cold-country/Sardsir Malyan suggests trade andrice at Parthian Susa may be evidence of a new crop that had long been cultivated in the Indus valley. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8d4faa294454288bcb2bb970f3c63032023-02-17T05:53:13ZengArchaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and BaluchestanIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies2251-743X2676-29192011-04-01121810.22111/ijas.2011.460460An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western IranNaomi Miller0University of Pennsylvania Museum, PhiladelphiaPlant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environmentin which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a widerange of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown? What was used for fuel? Do any of the plants comefrom distant lands? Examples from fourth and third millennium deposits at Farukhabad, Sharafabad, Godin, and Malyanshow that within the basic agricultural assemblage of wheat and barley shared by all sites, Sharafabad and Godin havestronger evidence of irrigation, lentil and flax, and Farukhabad appears to be more oriented toward pastoral productionthan the other sites. This article provides an introduction to archaeobotany using examples drawn from several fourth andthird millennium sites in southern and western Iran. Human impact on the vegetation in Khuzestan and Fars appears tohave been minimal at this time. A few unexpected finds (a date pit from cold-country/Sardsir Malyan suggests trade andrice at Parthian Susa may be evidence of a new crop that had long been cultivated in the Indus valley.https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_460_66a32d7eb744b4d1090a4c17e4697b42.pdfarchaeobotanyagriculturesharafabadfarukhabadgodinmalyan |
| spellingShingle | Naomi Miller An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies archaeobotany agriculture sharafabad farukhabad godin malyan |
| title | An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran |
| title_full | An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran |
| title_fullStr | An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran |
| title_short | An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Environment, Plant Use, Agriculture, and Interregional Contact in South and Western Iran |
| title_sort | archaeobotanical perspective on environment plant use agriculture and interregional contact in south and western iran |
| topic | archaeobotany agriculture sharafabad farukhabad godin malyan |
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