Pathways to Plant Domestication: New Insights from Archaeobotany
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2022) | Viewed by 10588
Special Issue Editors
Interests: archaeobotany; plant domestication; early agriculture; complex societies; Africa
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The domestication of plants and the development of agricultural systems transformed the lives of ancient peoples and provided the nutritional foundation of early civilizations around the world. Archaeobotany, the study of archaeologically preserved ancient plant remains, represents the first line of direct evidence for ancient domestication processes. This Special Issue will highlight recent approaches to understanding plant domestication based on macrobotanical and microbotanical evidence from different world regions and over a variety of time periods. We are soliciting papers that examine ancient plant domestication through archaeobotanical studies based on traditional knowledge; ethnoarchaeology; agroecology; experimental archaeobotany; modeling and simulations based on archaeobotanical data; and aDNA/proteomics.
Prof. Catherine D'Andrea
Dr. Carla Lancelotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- archaeobotany
- plant domestication
- crop evolution
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