期刊
VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
卷 27, 期 6, 页码 817-831出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00334-018-0675-x
关键词
Southwest Asia; Neolithic; Origins of Agriculture; Wild grasses; Pre-agricultural plant management strategies
资金
- British Academy [BARDA-48993]
- UK Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP) [AH/H034315/1]
- British Institute of Persian Studies
- University College London
- University of Reading
- AHRC [AH/H034315/2] Funding Source: UKRI
Prior to the emergence of agriculture in southwest Asia, increasingly sedentary human communities were experimenting with a diverse range of wild plants over a prolonged period. In some cases, this involved the cultivation of taxa that would go on to be domesticated and form the foundation of future agricultural economies. However, many forms of plant use did not follow this trajectory, and in multiple places farming was only taken up later as an established package' of crops and management practices. In this paper, we present new archaeobotanical evidence from the Early Neolithic site of Sheikh-e Abad in the central Zagros mountains of western Iran. Sheikh-e Abad is unique in being the only settlement known to date within southwest Asia that lies at an altitude above 1,000m and which has occupation spanning the agricultural transition (9800-7600bc). Thus, it provides a rare opportunity to examine pre-agricultural plant management strategies in an upland zone. Our analyses of the plant remains from Sheikh-e Abad suggest that from its earliest occupation the site's inhabitants were auditioning' a group of locally available wild grasses, which ultimately were never domesticated. We discuss the possible reasons for this from a socio-ecological perspective, considering both the biology and ecology of the plant species in question, as well as the ways in which they were potentially managed.
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