Meetings in 2021/2022, our twelfth year (!) are ordinarily the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays [or Wednesdays, depending] of the month. Pandemic schedule: 11 am-noon, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays.
Ritchey, Melissa M., Yufeng Sun, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Shinya Shoda, Anil K.
Pokharia, Michael Spate, Li Tang, Jixiang Song, Haiming Li, Guanghui Dong, Petra Vaiglova,
Michael Frachetti and Xinyi Liu
2022 The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size.
World Archaeology.
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Uhl, Elizabeth W., Charles Kelderhouse, Jane Buikstra, Jeffrey P. Blick, Brad Bolon,
and Robert J. Hogan
2019 New World origin of canine distemper: Interdisciplinary insights.
International Journal of
Paleopathology 24: 266-278.
Mazzucco, Niccolo
2021 Stones that made food. A lithic viewpoint on food production practices in the early
Mediterranean Neolithic. Food and History
19 (1-2): 255-273.
Hamon, Caroline
2021 A revolution in food preparation? Grinding and pounding plants in the first farming
communities of Western Europe and the Mediterranean region.
Food and History 19 (1-2): 275-298.
Ibáñez-Estévez, Juan J., Patricia C. Anderson, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui,
Jesús E. González-Urquijo, Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl, Niccolò
Mazzucco, Fiona Pichon, Tobias Richter
2021 Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting
during the transition to agriculture.
Journal of Archaeological Science 136,105502.
Figueiral, Isabel, Pascale Chevillot, Sophie Martin, Sarah Ivorra, Françoise
Paone, Elsa Sagetat-Basseuil, Brigitte de Luca, and Josiane Cuzon
2021 (Sub)urban gardens from Provence (Southern France, 14th-17th century) and the
presence of Ricinus communis.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30: 313-329.
Zierden, Martha A. and Elizabeth J. Reitz
2009 Animal use and the urban landscape in colonial Charleston, South Carolina, USA
International Journal of Historical
Archaeology 13(3): 327-365.
Guiry, E. J. and B.C. Gaulton
2016 Inferring human behaviors from isotopic analyses of rat diet: A critical review
and historical application.
Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory 23(2): 399-426.
Shoda, Shinya
2021 Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea.
Current Anthropology 62
(supp. 24) . (or https://doi.org/10.1086/715808 )
Bates, Jennifer
2021 Is domestication speciation? The implications of a messy domestication model in
the Holocene. Agronomy 2021, 11, 784.
Dussault, Frédéric, Allison Bain, and Genevieve LeMoine
2014 Early Thule winter houses: An archaeoentomological analysis. Arctic Anthropology 5: 101-117.
Heiss, Andreas G. and Hans-Peter Stika
2013 Making the incomparable comparable? A new attempt of the semi-quantitative
evaluation of large-scale archaeobotanical data. Poster (I assume International Work Group
in Palaeothnobotany).
Stika, Hans-Peter and Andreas G. Heiss
2013 Plant cultivation
in the Bronze Age. In The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, eds. H.
Fokkens and A. Harding. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572861.013.0019.
Effinberger, Henrike
2018 The plant economy of the Northern European Bronze Age--more
diversity through increased trade with southern regions. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 27: 65-74.
Capriles, José M., Calogero M. Santoro, Richard J. George, Eliana Flores
Bedregal, Douglas J. Kennett, Logan Kistler, and Francisco Rothhammer
2021 Pre-Columbian transregional captive rearing of Amazonian parrots in the Atacama Desert.
PNAS 118: 15 e2020020118 .
Kislev, Mordechai and Efraim Lev
2019 Dietary and health issues of the inhabitants of the Middle Paleolithic Kebara Cave.
In Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archaeology Part II,
eds. L. Meignen and O. Bar-Yosef. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 51,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, pp. 149-164. Cambridge MA.
.
Ceren Kabukcu, Eleni Asouti, Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters, and Necmi Karul
2021 Pathways to plant domestication in Southeast Anatolia based on new data from aceramic
Neolithic Gusir Höyük.
Nature Research Scientific Reports|(2021) 11:2112.
Asouti, Eleni, Douglas Baird, Ceren Kabukcu, Kate Swinson, Louise Martin, Aroa
Garcia-Suárez, Emma Jenkins, and Kamal Rasheed
2020 The Zagros Epipalaeolithic revisited: New excavations and 14C dates from Palegawra
cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.
PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239564
Scott, Ashley, Robert C. Power, Victoria Altmann-Wendling, Michal Artzy, Mario A.S.
Martin, Stefanie Eisenmann, Richard Hagan, Domingo C. Salazar-García, Yossi Salmon,
Dmitry Yegorov, Ianir Milevski, Israel Finkelstein, Philipp W. Stockhammer, and Christina Warinner
2020 (2021) Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the
second millennium BCE.
PNAS January 12, 2021118(2)e2014956117 .
Gottfried, Xander
2020 "It's Hip to be Ancient: The Rise, Persistence and Rediscovery of Emmer Wheat".
unpublished manuscript.
Mueller, Natalie, Robert N. Spengler III, Ashley Glenn, and Kunsang Lama
2020 Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.
Anthropocene Review.
Spengler, Robert N. III and Natalie Mueller
2019 Grazing animals drove domestication of grain crops.
Nature Plants 5: 656-662.
Bos, K.I. et al. et al. et al. et al.
2014 Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human
tuberculosis. Nature Research Letter.
DOI:10.1038/nature13591
Diffey, Charlotte, Reinder Neef, Jürgen Seeher, and Amy Bogaard
2020 The agroecology of an early state: new results from Hattusha. Antiquity 94: 1204-1223
. (DOI:10.15184/aqy.2020.172)
Chakraborty, Kalyan Sekhar, Greg F. Slater, Heather M.-L. Miller, Prabodh Shirvalkar and
Yadubirsingh Rawat
2020 Compound specific isotope analysis of lipid residues provides the earliest direct
evidence of dairy product processing in South Asia.
Scientific Reports 10 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72963-y.
Sallon, Sarah, Emira Cherif, Nathalie Chabrillange, Elaine Solowey, Muriel Gros-Balthazard,
Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Markus Egli, and Frédérique Aberlenc
2020 Origins and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on genetic analysis of
germinated ancient seeds and morphometric studies.
Science Advances 2020 6: eaax0384, 5 February 2020.
See also: "Aided by Modern Ingenuity, a Taste of Ancient Judean Dates," NYT Sept. 8, 2020.
McKechnie, Iain, Madonna L. Moss, and Susan J. Crockford
2020 Domestic dogs and wild canids on the Northwest Coast of North America: Animal
husbandry in a region without agriculture?
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60 (2020) 101209.
Kadowaki Seiji, Lisa Maher, Marta Portillo, Rosa M. Albert, Chie Akashi, Farhad Guliyev,
Yoshihiro Nishiaki
2015 Geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for prehistoric cereal storage in the
southern Caucasus: the Neolithic settlement of Göytepe(mid 8th millennium BP)
Journal of
Archaeological Science 53: 408-425. DOI: 10.1080/00231940.2017.1420612
Mercader, Julio, Tolutope Akeju, Melisa Brown, Mariam Bundala, Matthew J. Collins, Les
Copeland, Alison Crowther, Peter Dunfield, Amanda Henry, Jamie Inwood, Makarius Itambua,
Joong-Jae Kim, Steve Larter, Laura Longo, Thomas Oldenburg, Robert Patalano,
Ramaswami Sammynaiken, María Soto, Robert Tyler, and Hermine Xhauflair
2018 Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic
and authenticity criteria.
Facets 3: 777-798. DOI: 10.1139/facets-2017-0126
Koromila, Georgia, Panagiotis Karkanas, Yannis Hamilakis, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika,
Georgia Kotzamanie, and Kerry Harris
2018 The Neolithic tell as a multi-species monument: Human, animal, and plant relationships
through a micro-contextual study of animal dung remains at Koutroulou Magoula, central Greece.
Journal of Archaeological Science:
Reports 19: 753-768. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.011
Fuller, Dorian Q. and Lara Gonzalez Carretero
2018 The archaeology of Neolithic cooking traditions: archaeobotanical approaches to baking,
boiling and fermenting.
Archaeology International 21: 109-121. DOI: 10.5334/ai-391
Dietrich L, Meister J, Dietrich O, Notroff J, Kiep J, Heeb J, et al.
2019 Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey.
PLoS ONE 14(5): e0215214 .
Dunseth, Zachary C., Daniel Fuks, Dafna Langgut, Ehud Weiss, Yoel Melamed, Don H. Butler,
Xin Yan, Elisabetta Boaretto, Yotam Tepper, Guy Bar-Oz, Ruth Shahack-Gross
2019 Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: A comparative study of
phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta,
Negev, Israel.
Quaternary Science Reviews 211: 166-185.
Li Liu, Jiajing Wang, Danny Rosenberg, Hao Zhao, György Lengyel, Dani Nadel
2018 Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave,
Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting. Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports: 21: 783-793.
Alonso, Natàlia
2019 A first approach to women, tools and operational sequences in traditional manual
cereal grinding. Archaeological and
Anthropological Sciences [Nature].
Power, Robert C., Domingo C. Salazar-García, Mauro Rubini, Andrea Darlas,
Katerina Harvati, Michael Walker, Jean-Jacques Hublin, and Amanda G. Henry
2018 Dental calculus indicates widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary
niche. Journal
of Human Evolution 119: 27-41.
Jaouen, Klervia , Michael P. Richards, Adeline Le Cabec, Frido Welker, William Rendu,
Jean-Jacques Hublin, Marie Soressi, and Sahra Talamo
2019 Exceptionally high 'd'15N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals
as high-trophic level carnivores.
PNAS 116(11): 4928-4933.
Bouby, L., P. Marinval, and J.-F. Terral
2018 From secondary to speculative production? The protohistory history of viticulture in
southern France. In Plants and People, Choices and Diversity through Time, eds. A.
Chevalier, E. Marinova, and L. Peña-Chocarro, pp. 175-181.
Grant, Jennifer and Kevin Lane 2018 The political ecology of late South American pastoralism: an Andean perspective A.D. 1,000-1,615. Journal of Political Ecology 25: 446-469.
Limiera, Bertrand, Sarah Ivorra, Laurent Bouby, Isabel Figueiral, Lucie Chabal, Manon
Cabanis, Mohammed Ater, Thierry Lacombe, Jérome Ros, Laurent Brémond, and
Jean-Frédéric Terral
2018 Documenting the history of the grapevine and viticulture: A quantitative
eco-anatomical perspective applied to modern and archaeological charcoal. Journal of
Archaeological Science 100: 45-61.
Pfeiffer, Susan, Judith C. Sealy, Ronald F. WIlliamson, and Suzanne Needs-Howarth
2016 Maize, fish, and deer: Investigating dietary staples among ancestral Huron-Wendat villages,
as documented from tooth samples.
American Antiquity 81: 515-532.
Hart, John P., Hetty Jo Brumbach, Lisa M. Anderson, and Susan Winchell-Sweeney
2017 Maize and pits: late prehistoric occupations of the Hurley Site in the Esopus Creek
Valley, Ulster County, New York. Archaeology of Eastern North America 45: 133-160.
Roffet-Salque, Mélanie, Julie Dunne, David T. Altoft, Emmanuelle Casanova,
Lucy J.E. Cramp, Jessica Smyth, Helen L. Whelton, and Richard P. Evershed
2017 From the inside out: Upscaling organic residue analyses of archaeological ceramics.
Journal of Archaeological Science:
Reports 16: 627-640.
Rosenzweig, Melissa S. and John M. Marston
2018 Archaeologies of empire and environment.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.08.004.
Roberts, Neil, Jessie Woodbridge, Andrew Bevan, Alessio Palmisano, Stephen Shennan, Eleni Asouti
2018 Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the last
Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean.
Quaternary Science Reviews.
Boyd, Brian
2018 Ecologies of fiber-work: Animal technologies and invisible craft practices in
prehistoric Southwest Asia.
Quaternary International 468: 250-261.
Bogaard, Amy, Dragana Filipović, Andrew Fairbairn, Laura Green, Elizabeth Stroud,
Dorian Fuller, and Michael Charles
2017 Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: The
1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central
Anatolia. Anatolian Studies 67: 1-28. [Link]
Valamoti, Soultana Maria
2017 Brewing beer in wine country? First archaeolobotanical indications for beer making
in Early and Middle Bronze Age Greece.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
Weisskopf, Alison
2016 Elusive wild foods in South East Asian subsistence: Modern ethnography and
archaeological phytoliths.
Quaternary International.
Farahani, Alan, Benjamin W. Porter, Hanna Huynh, and Bruce Routledge
2016 Crop storage and animal husbandry at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aliya
(Jordan): A paleoethnobotanical approach. In The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist
Economies in Jordan, ed. K.M. McGeough, pp. 27-88. Annual of the American Schools
of Oriental Research 69.
Hammer, E. and B. Arbuckle
2017 10,000 years of pastoralism in Anatolia: A review of evidence for variability in
pastoral lifeways. Nomadic Peoples 21.2 (Ancient Pastoralisms): 214-267.
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Lupo, K. D.
2017 When and where do dogs improve hunting productivity? The empirical record and some
implications for early Upper Paleolithic prey acquisition.
Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 47: 139-151.
Marshall-Pescini, S., S. Cafazzo, Z. Virányi, and F. Range
2017 Integrating social ecology in explanations of wolf-dog behavioral differences.
Current
Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 16: 80-86.
Richer, Suzi and Benjamin Gearey
2017 The Medicine Tree: Unsettling palaeoecological perceptions of past environments
and human activity.
Journal of Social Archaeology 17: 239-262.
Roberts, Patrick, Chris Hunt, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Damian Evans and Nicole Boivin
2017 The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for
modern conservation. Nature
Plants 3, article no. 17093.
Miller, Naomi F.
2017 Social and spiritual landscapes in ancient Mesopotamia.
Toro, Fabian, Chantel White, and Joyce White
2017 Developing a legacy collection of traditional rice cultivation: Implications for
archaeobotanical study.
Morrison, Jerolyn
2016? Cook it up and dish it out! A sensory experience: An approach to experimental
archaeology, pp. 6-10, with tasty lentil stew provided, thanks Jerolyn! See also Minoan Tastes.
Allitt, Sharon, R. Michael Stewart and Timothy Messner
2008 The utility of dog bone (Canis familiaris) in stable isotope studies for
investigating prehistoric maize consumption: A preliminary study.
North American
Archaeologist 29:339-363.
Biwer, Matthew E. and Amber M. VanDerwarker
2015 Paleoethnobotany and ancient alcohol production: A mini-review.
Ethnobiology Letters
6: 28-31.
Brown, Terence A.
2010 Differing approaches and perceptions in the study of New and Old World Crops. In
Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica, eds. J.E. Staller, R.H. Tykot, and B.F. Benz, pp. 14-19.
Left Coast Press.
Thornton, Thomas, Douglas Deur, and Herman Kitka, Sr.
2015 Cultivation of salmon and other marine resources on the northwest coast of North
America. Human Ecology 43:
188-199. DOI 10.1007/s10745-015-9747-z
McKechnie, Iain and Madonna L. Moss
2016 Meta-analysis in zooarchaeology expands perspectives on Indigenous fisheries of
the Northwest Coast of North America.
Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 470-485.
Boivin, Nicole L., Melinda A. Zeder, Dorian Q. Fuller, Alison Crowther, Greger Larson,
Jon M. Erlandson, Tikm Denham, and Michael D. Petraglia
2016 Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term
anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions.
PNAS 113 (23): 6388-6396.
Asouti, Eleni and Andrew S. Fairbairn
2010 Farmers, gatherers or horticulturalists? Reconstructing landscapes of practice in
the Early Neolithic. In Landscapes in Transition, eds. Bill Finlayson and Graeme Warren,
pp. 161-172. Oxbow Books.
Fuller, D.Q. Rouse
2011 Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice
Cultures. Rice 4: 78. doi:10.1007/s12284-011-9078-7
Spengler, Robert N. III, Barbara Cerasetti, Margareta Tengberg, and Lynne M. Rouse
2014 Agriculturalists and pastoralists: Bronze Age economy of the Murghab alluvial fan,
southern Central Asia.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23: 805-820.
Extra, for those interested in the cultural and culinary background on millet in Central Asia, see this work by former PAP group member Julia McLean, "Steppe, Seed, & Supper: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Plant Foodways in Kazakhstan," available through Scholarly Commons.
Ramsey, Monica N. and Arlene M. Rosen
2016 Wedded to wetlands: Exploring Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant.
Quaternary
International 396 (7): 5-19.
Zeder, Melinda A. and Megan D. Spitzer
2016 New insights into broad spectrum communities of the Early Holocene Near East: The
birds of Hallan Çemi. Quaternary Science Reviews 151: 140-159. Available without subscription
Deb Olszewski (Sudan) and Chantel White (Jordan) gave short presentations of recent field work, and Kate Moore showed us some nifty mammoth bones.
Peña-Chocarro, Guillem Pérez Jordà, Jacob Morales Mateos & Lydia Zapata
2016 Storage in traditional farming communities of the western Mediterranean:
Ethnographic, historical and archaeological data.
Environmental Archaeology 20: 379-389.
Extra, for those interested:
Winterhalder, B., C. Puleston, and C. Ross
2016 Production risk, inter-annual food storage by households and population-level
consequences in seasonal prehistoric agrarian societies.
Environmental Archaeology 20: 337-348.
Webster, David L.
2011 Backward bottlenecks: ancient teosinte/maize selection. Current Anthropology 52:77-104.
Piperno, Dolores R., Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst, Jose Iriarte, and Ruth Dickau
Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central
Balsas River Valley, Mexico.
PNAS 106(13): 5019-5024.
Vaiglova, P., A. Bogaard, M. Collins, W. Cavanagh, C. Mee, J. Renard, A. Lamb, A.
Gardreisen, and R. Fraser
2014 An integrated stable isotope study of plants and animals from Kouphovouno, southern
Greece: a new look at Neolithic farming. Journal of
Archaeological Science 42: 201-215.
Reed Goodman gave a presentation about recent fieldwork associated with excavations at Ur- a trip through the marshes.
Van De Mieroop, Marc
1992 Old Babylonian Ur: Portrait of an Ancient Mesopotamian City.
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 21.
Ellison, Rosemary, Jane Renfrew, Don Brothwell, and Nigel Seeley
1978 Some Food Offerings from Ur, Excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley, and Previously
Unpublished.
Journal of Archaeological Science 5:167-177.
McClure, Sarah B.
2015 The Pastoral Effect. Niche Construction, Domestic Animals, and the Spread of
Farming in Europe.
Current Anthropology 56.
Dafna Langgut, Kathryn Gleason and Barbara Burrell
2015 Pollen analysis as evidence for Herod's Royal Garden at the Promontory Palace,
Caesarea.
Israel Journal of Plant Sciences.
Lopinot, Neal H., Timothy Schilling, Gayle J. Fritz, and John E. Kelly
2015 Implications of Plant Remains from the East Face of Monks Mound.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 40: 209-230.
Morell, Virginia
2015 From Wolf to Dog.
Scientific American (July): 61-67.
Morey, Darcy F. and Rujana Jeger
2015 Paleolithic dogs:Why sustained domestication then?
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3: 420-428.
Snir A, Nadel D, Groman-Yaroslavski I, Melamed Y, Sternberg M, Bar-Yosef O, et al.
2015 The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming.
PLOSone 10(7): e0131422. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131422.
Sugiyama, Nawa, Andrew D. Somerville, and Margaret J. Schoeninger
2015 Stable Isotopes and Zooarchaeology at Teotihuacan, Mexico Reveal Earliest Evidence
of Wild Carnivore Management in Mesoamerica.
PLOSone DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135635.
Snir, Anit, Dani Nadel, and Ehud Weiss
2015 Plant-food preparation on two consecutive floors at Upper Paleolithic Ohalo II,
Israel.
Journal of Archaeological Science 53: 61-71.
Cartwright, Caroline
2001 The plant remains. Chapter 13 in Life on the Desert Edge, Seven Thousand
Years of Settlement in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan, ed. D.A. Welsby, pp.
556-567. BAR International 980 (II).
[and N.F. Miller, Presentation about recent trip to Kurru, Sudan]
Zeder, Melinda
2015 Core questions in domestication research. PNAS
Zeder, Melinda
2012 Pathways to animal domestication. In Biodiversity in Agriculture:
Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability, eds. R.L. Bettinger et al. Cambridge
University Press, pp. 227-259.
Larson, Greger and Dorian Q. Fuller
2014 The evolution of animal domestication. In Annual Review of Ecology,
Evolution, and Systematics 66: 115-136. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091620
Fiorentino, Girolamo, Juan Pedro Ferrio, Amy Bogaard, José Luis Araus, and
Simone Riehl
2015 Stable isotopes in archaeobotanical research. Vegetation History and
Archaeobotany 24: 215-227. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0492-9
Scarborough, Vernon
2014 The alternative economy: Resilience in the face of complexity from the Eastern
Lowlands. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
24: 124-141. DOI: 10.1111/apaa.12033
Liu, Li, Lisa Kealhofer, Xingcan Chen, and Ping Ji
2014 A broad-spectrum subsistence economy in Neolithic Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence
from grinding stones. The Holocene 24(6): 726-742. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614526938
Soltysiak, Arkadiusz
2014 Frequency of Dental Caries as a Proxy Indicator of Mobility: The Case of the
Khabur Basin Human Populations. In Paleonutrition and Food Practices in the Aancient Near
East: Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach, eds. L. Milano and F. Bertoldi, pp.
53-70. Sargon, Padova.
Madella, M., J.J. García-Granero, W.A. Out, P. Ryan, and D. Usai
2014 Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago. PLOS | one
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110177
[on line]
Linseele, Veerle, Wim Van Neer, Sofie Thys, Rebecca Phillipps, René Cappers,
Willeke Wendrich, Simon Holdaway
2014 New Archaeozoological Data from the Fayum "Neolithic" with a Critical Assessment of
the Evidence for Early Stock Keeping in Egypt. PLOSone [on line]
Lightfoot, E., G. Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, T.C. O'Connell, I.A. Kukushkin, V. Loman,
V. Varfolomeev, X. Liu, and M.K. Jones
2014 How "Pastoral" is Pastoralism? Dietary Diversity in Bronze Age Communities in the
Central Kazakhstan Steppes. Archaeometry, available on-line, doi: 10.1111/arcm.12123
Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric Kansa, David Orton, Canan Çakırlar,
Lionel Gourichon, Levent Atici, Alfred Galik, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Jacqui Mulville,
Hijlke Buitenhuis, Denise Carruthers, Bea De Cupere et al.(!)
2014 Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across
Neolithic Turkey. PLOSone [
on line]
Annie Chan, Naomi F. Miller presented video clips from Turkey and China. For more
information, go to the Penn Museum blog links: Naomi's
movies and Annie's posts of
July 21 and
August 27.
Gremillion, Kristen J., Loukas Barton, and Dolores R. Piperno
2014 Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural
origins. PNAS 11 (7). [on line]
Yimin Yang, Anna Shevchenko, Andrea Knaust, Idelisi Abuduresule, Wenying Li, Xingjun Hu,
Changsui Wang, Andrej Shevchenko
2014 Proteomics evidence for kefir dairy in Early Bronze Age China. Journal of
Archaeological Science 45: 178-186. [on line]
Asouti, Eleni and Ceren Kabukcu
2014 Holocene semi-arid oak woodlands in the Irano-Anatolian region of Southwest Asia:
natural or anthropogenic? Quaternary Science Reviews 90:158-182.
[on line]
Whitney, B.S., R. Dickau, F. E. Mayle, J. H. Walker, J. D. Soto, and J. Iriarte
2014 Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon.
The Holocene 54(5):569-606. [
on line]
Johnson, Kevin J.
2003 The intensification of pre-industrial cereal agriculture in the tropics:
Boserup, cultivation lengthening, and the Classic Maya. Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology 22: 126-161. [on line]
Killion, Thomas W.
2005 Nonagricultural Cultivation and Social Complexity: The Olmec, Their Ancestors, and
Mexico's Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands. Current Anthropology
54(5): 569-606. [on line]
Fuller, Dorian
2005 Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India. Antiquity
79: 761-777. [on line]
Dean, R.M.
2005 Site-Use Intensity, Cultural Modification of the Environment, and the Development
of Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona. American Antiquity
70(3): 403-431. [on line]
Portillo, Marta, Seiji Kadowaki, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Rosa M. Albert
2014 Early Neolithic household behavior at Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Upper Khabur, Syria):
a comparison to ethnoarchaeological study of phytoliths and dung spherulites. Journal
of Archaeological Science 42: 107–118.
[on line]
Yeshurun, Reuven, Guy Bar-Oz, and Dani Nadel
2013 The social role of food in the Natufian cemetery of Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel,
Israel. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32(4): 511-526.
[on line]
Hayden, Brian,Neil Canuel, and Jennifer Shanse (supplementary reading)
2013 What Was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing
Technology in the Epipaleolithic. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
20: 102-150. [on
line]
Bettinger, Robert L., Loukas Barton, and Christopher Morgan
2010 The origins of food production in north China: a different kind of agricultural
revolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 19: 9-21.
Soleri, Daniela, Marcus Winter, Steven R. Bozarth, and W. Jeffrey Hurst
2013 Archaeological residues and recipes: exploratory testing for evidence of maize and
cacao beverages in Postclassic vessels from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Latin
American Antiquity 24: 345-362.
Fuller, Dorian Q. and Mike Rowlands
2011 Ingestion and food technologies: maintaining differences over the long-term in
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