Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Crop History Research: After Prehistory
Content:
Reconstructing the pathways of agricultural crop diffusion and evolution is essential to research on the origins and development of agriculture through time, with long-recognized implications for modern crop improvement and understandings of human history. Yet, until recently, research has largely focused on initial domestication beginning with the southwest Asian Neolithic over 10,000 years ago, to the near exclusion of more recent crop histories directly affecting today’s agricultural diversity. This session aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers working on agricultural developments over the last 3,000 years or so, from any region. This session will look at the notions of legacies, transitions, changes and evolutions from a socio-economic and/or environmental perspective. Papers (reviews or case studies) may include archaeobotanical, ethnoarchaeological, biomolecular, isotopic, historical or other methods of inquiry. Interdisciplinary studies are encouraged and we are particularly interested in work focused on a particular crop plant or group of crops.
Keywords:
archaeobotany, archaeological science, ethnobotany, agricultural history
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Jerome Ros (France) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Daniel Fuks (Israel) 3
Philippa Ryan (United Kingdom) 4
Michelle Alexander (United Kingdom) 5
Leonor Peña-Chocarro (Spain) 6
Affiliations:
1. Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier
2. CNRS
3. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
4. Interdisciplinary Research, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
5. BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York
6. Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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