Archaeobotanical Data from Two Middle and Later Bronze Age Round House Sites in Cork, Ireland by Penny Johnston

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Vegetation Dynamic of Southern Sistan during the Bronze Age: Anthracological Studies at Shahr-i Sokhta by Rouhollah Shirazi, Zohreh Shirazi

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Off-site embankments to protect fields from the growth of peatlands in the Valli Grandi Veronesi Meridionali (Italy) during Middle and Recent Bronze Age by Claudio Balista, Fiorenza Bortolami, Marco Marchesini, Silvia Marvelli

“…The comparison of these datings, the relative chronology and stratigraphic relationships established between SAM, channels, ditches, and agrarian drains revealed the possibility of achieving a first definition of land organization in two agrarian-settlement phases for the two major CdT and FP sites. The archaeobotanist contribution from a first set of pollen analysis carried out from Ponte Moro samples, allowed to specify the important role of grass-grazing percent in relation of cultivated land and woodland, the latter testified by an higher percent of AP compared to the average of Emilian data. …”
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Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Alcohol Production: A Mini-Review by Matthew E Biwer, Amber M VanDerwarker

“…However, successfully demonstrating that alcoholic beverages were produced in prehistoric contexts is problematic.  As a result, archaeobotanists have developed a multi-scalar approach, incorporating multiple lines of evidence, to argue for the production of fermented beverages in the past.…”
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Archaeobotanical Studies in Poland – Historical Overview, Achievements, and Future Perspectives by Monika Badura, Maria Lityńska-Zając, Mirosław Makohonienko

“…To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first comprehensive attempt to summarize over a hundred-year-old activity of archaeobotanists in Poland.…”
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Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia by Alexia Smith, Krista Dotzel, Joyce Fountain, Lucas Proctor, Madelynn von Baeyer

“…<p class="Abstract">This article considers the study of wood and dung fuel use in antiquity across Southwest Asia by anthracologists and archaeobotanists. In recent years, the socially conditioned nature of fuel use has been highlighted and many scholars are stressing the central importance of fuel to pre-modern societies as on par with subsistence and tool use. …”
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Beyond Depression? A Review of the Optimal Foraging Theory Literature in Zooarchaeology and Archaeobotany by Emily Lena Jones, David A. Hurley

“…In addition, some researchers have suggested the focus on resource depression is more common in the zooarchaeological literature than in the archaeobotanical literature, indicating fundamental differences in the ways zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists approach the archaeological record. In this paper, we assess these critiques through a review of the literature between 1997 and 2017. …”
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The association of arable weeds with modern wild cereal habitats: implications for reconstructing the origins of plant cultivation in the Levant by Weide, A, Hodgson, J, Leschner, H, Dovrat, G, Whitlam, J, Manela, N, Melamed, Y, Osem, Y, Bogaard, A

“…Among the criteria archaeobotanists developed for identifying the earliest plant cultivation, the presence of potential arable weeds found in association with wild cereal and legume remains has been used as a basis for supporting models of prolonged wild plant cultivation before domesticated crops appear. …”

Harvest Techniques: Hand-Pulling and Its Potential Impact on the Archaeobotanical Record Vis a Vis Near Eastern Plant Domestication by Shahal Abbo, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher

“…A “cultivation prior to domestication”, or a “pre-domestication cultivation” phase features in many reconstructions of Near Eastern plant domestication. Archaeobotanists who accept this notion search for evidence to support the assumption regarding a wild plant’s cultivation phase, which in their view, preceded and eventually led to plant domestication. …”
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Origin of the words denoting some of the most ancient old world pulse crops and their diversity in modern European languages. by Aleksandar Mikić

“…This research is meant to encourage interdisciplinary concerted actions between plant scientists dealing with crop evolution and biodiversity, archaeobotanists and language historians.…”
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Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain by Lodwick, L

“…The ability to provenance crop remains from archaeological sites remains an outstanding research question in archaeology. Archaeobotanists have previously identified the movement of cereals on the basis of regional variations in the presence of cereal grain, chaff and weed seeds (the consumer–producer debate), and weed seeds indicative of certain soil types, principally at Danebury hillfort. …”