#Archaeology: 1,800-Year-Old #Spices Are Earliest Evidence of #Curry Making in #SoutheastAsia

#Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient #Vietnam, suggesting South Asians shared their culinary traditions via an ancient maritime trade route

By Timmy Broderick on July 21, 2023

"Traces of eight spices were found: turmeric, ginger, fingerroot (Chinese ginger, lesser galangal), sand ginger (aromatic ginger), galangal (a relative of ginger and turmeric), clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. (One nutmeg fragment even retained a faint version of its signature pungent, slightly nutty aroma.) Because most of these spices originated on distant islands, traders would have had to bring them from several thousand kilometers away by sea. Hung says the stone tools were also likely imported, which suggests the larger culinary practice of incorporating such spices into foods was also borrowed from another ancient culture. 'This study reveals that trading activities were rather complicated, as not only precious goods were moving around, but also people and their entire set of culinary cultures were transferred between the regions,' she says."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curry-has-been-a-global-phenomenon-for-millenia/

#FoodHistory #History #Histodon #CulinaryArchaeology #Archaeobotany

#Archaeology: Did #Plants #Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement' [video]

By Regina Sobel on January 26, 2023

"Those who study places like #Çatalhöyük see a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics. Ceren Kabukçu, an archaeobotanist who researches ancient plant specimens, explains how a random mutation in wild wheat produced characteristics that pleased early farmers so much that they selected those plants over and over again until the mutated plants became domesticated. But it didn’t end there. The domesticated wheat evolved to such a degree that it could no longer reproduce without the aid of human hands. Much of what we eat today is rooted in this codependency."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/did-plants-domesticate-humans-watch-the-first-entanglement/

#Farming #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany #Archaeology #Histodon #History #Catalhoyuk

IWAA10 : 10th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany
27-30 Jun 2023 Paris (France)
at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle #MNHN in Paris for #Archaeobotany
Deadline for early bird fees by April 30th 2023
iwaa10.sciencesconf.org
(For the sake of transparency: I am part of the scientific committee.)

SOLARI, María Eugenia y LEHNEBACH, Carlos. PENSANDO LA ANTRACOLOGÍA PARA EL CENTRO-SUR DE CHILE: SITIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS Y BOSQUE EN EL LAGO CALAFQUÉN. Chungará (Arica) [online]. 2004, vol.36 #archaeobotany

Studying the archaeobotany of the Silk Road #archaeology #archaeobotany #silkroad #history

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OUT NOW! Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond. Interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeology of plant foods. #archaeobotany

>500 pages read online for free... or get a copy in print:

https://www.sidestone.com/books/cooking-with-plants-in-ancient-europe-and-beyond

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Domestication as innovation: the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops - Dorian Fuller [pdf 17 pages] https://www.academia.edu/242602/Domestication_as_innovation_the_entanglement_of_techniques_technology_and_chance_in_the_domestication_of_cereal_crops #ArchaeoBotany #PlantDomestication #agriculture

New #archaeobotany #Paper out on the #domestication of Broomcorn #Millet in the the Northern Pontic | #Ukraine #archaeology

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-022-09171-1

The Archaeology of Neolithic Cooking Traditions: Archaeo-botanical Approaches to Baking, Boiling and Fermenting [2018] https://www.academia.edu/37933274/The_Archaeology_of_Neolithic_Cooking_Traditions_Archaeobotanical_Approaches_to_Baking_Boiling_and_Fermenting #neolithic #brewing #ArchaeoBotany

Cerro El Inga war eine indigene Gemeinde 95 km südlich von Santiago, die von den Inka erobert und umgestaltet wurde. https://tinyurl.com/33rhzrr9 Distant Provinces in the Inka Empire Rossen Planella u. Stehberg #archaeobotany #chile #Archäobotanik

#archaeobotany #Archaeobotanik ist Miyaye eingeschleppt in Südamerika? #chile Planella, Peña, Falabella u.a. revistahistoriaindigena.uchile.cl

Beware macrophytes when radiocarbon dating! (Also a good reason to have have plants identified before submitting for c14!) #paleoethnobotany #archaeobotany #Archaeodon https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/11/new-research-questions-dating-of-ice-age-footprints-in-north-america/145212

A short English #introduction about my topics although I mostly write in German.

#prehistoric #archaeology and other #OldTrash esp. #archaeobotany and #zooarchaeology

everything made of #textiles: #crafting, #knitting, #sewing, #embroidery, #tatting, #sprang, #lace, and many more!

On top there might be other content like #ADHD or #autism, as well as #games #RetroGames, #electronics, #plants, #sustainability, #ClimateCrisis, #nature, ...

Not every day that @gbif mediated data is used in archaeological studies!

https://www.gbif.org/data-use/5dyBnQ1dsObHrt2bi5BZfE/spice-cargo-reveals-historical-trade-patterns-and-shipping-routes

#archaeology #archaeobotany

Alright y’all - intro time! Hi I’m an archaeologist with a specialization in the study of ancient plant use - a paleoethnobotanist! I have my own consulting company - Rattlesnake Master LLC - and do sample processing and analysis for other archaeologists (I specialize in the SE US so mostly from there). And I ❤️🌱s! #Archaeodons #paleoethnobotany #archaeobotany