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Bellini G, Schrieber K, Kirleis W, Erfmeier A. Exploring the complex pre-adaptations of invasive plants to anthropogenic disturbance: a call for integration of archaeobotanical approaches. Front Plant Sci 2024; 15:1307364. [PMID: 38559769 PMCID: PMC10978757 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1307364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Pre-adaptation to anthropogenic disturbance is broadly considered key for plant invasion success. Nevertheless, empirical evidence remains scarce and fragmentary, given the multifaceted nature of anthropogenic disturbance itself and the complexity of other evolutionary forces shaping the (epi)-genomes of recent native and invasive plant populations. Here, we review and critically revisit the existing theory and empirical evidence in the field of evolutionary ecology and highlight novel integrative research avenues that work at the interface with archaeology to solve open questions. The approaches suggested so far focus on contemporary plant populations, although their genomes have rapidly changed since their initial introduction in response to numerous selective and stochastic forces. We elaborate that a role of pre-adaptation to anthropogenic disturbance in plant invasion success should thus additionally be validated based on the analyses of archaeobotanical remains. Such materials, in the light of detailed knowledge on past human societies could highlight fine-scale differences in the type and timing of past disturbances. We propose a combination of archaeobotanical, ancient DNA and morphometric analyses of plant macro- and microremains to assess past community composition, and species' functional traits to unravel the timing of adaptation processes, their drivers and their long-term consequences for invasive species. Although such methodologies have proven to be feasible for numerous crop plants, they have not been yet applied to wild invasive species, which opens a wide array of insights into their evolution.
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- Ginevra Bellini
- Department of Geobotany, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Geobotany, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Geobotany, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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Kubiak-Martens L, Oudemans TFM, Brozio JP, Filipović D, Müller J, Kirleis W. Transformation of cereal grains: Botanical and chemical analysis of food residues encrusted on pottery from the Funnel Beaker settlement of Oldenburg LA 77, northern Germany. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0296986. [PMID: 38241419 PMCID: PMC10798637 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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An integrated botanical and chemical approach is used to study surface residues on Funnel Beaker ceramics from the site of Oldenburg LA 77, in northern Germany. Organic residues were discovered adhering to fragments of thick-walled, undecorated ceramic vessels (n = 19) and ceramic discs (n = 2). The surface residues were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), to examine remains of cereals and other plant tissues that survived food preparation and cooking, and using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and direct time-resolved mass spectrometry (DTMS), to chemically identify specific food components. The SEM results show a reoccurring presence of cereal grain (emmer and barley) and one case of co-occurrence of emmer and fat-hen seeds. The SEM evidence for the use of sprouted emmer grain and milk-ripe barley from the Oldenburg residues greatly enhances our understanding of Neolithic foodways in northwestern Europe. The ATR-FTIR results showed that roughly a third of the surface residues contain traces of the original foods prepared or processed and DTMS results confirm that most of the residues primarily contain polysaccharides and a minimal amount of plant protein and that they lack lipids. Only one residue presents minor indications for a (partly) animal origin. The ceramic vessels were thus used almost exclusively for the processing or cooking of cereal grains. This study offers an intimate view of the cuisine and cooking practices (and in some cases their seasonal timing) in an early agricultural village located in a marginal farming region on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.
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- Lucy Kubiak-Martens
- BIAX Biological Archaeology & Environmental Reconstruction, Zaandam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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Schlütz F, Hofmann R, dal Corso M, Pashkevych G, Dreibrodt S, Shatilo M, Terna A, Fuchs K, Videiko M, Rud V, Müller J, Kirleis W. Isotopes prove advanced, integral crop production, and stockbreeding strategies nourished Trypillia mega-populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2312962120. [PMID: 38109547 PMCID: PMC10756257 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312962120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
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After 500 y of colonizing the forest-steppe area northwest of the Black Sea, on the territories of what is today Moldova and Ukraine, Trypillia societies founded large, aggregated settlements from ca. 4150 BCE and mega-sites (>100 ha) from ca. 3950 BCE. Covering up to 320 ha and housing up to 15,000 inhabitants, the latter were the world's largest settlements to date. Some 480 δ13C and δ15N measurements on bones of humans, animals, and charred crops allow the detection of spatio-temporal patterns and the calculation of complete agricultural Bayesian food webs for Trypillia societies. The isotope data come from settlements of the entire Trypillia area between the Prut and the Dnieper rivers. The datasets cover the development of the Trypillia societies from the early phase (4800-4200/4100 BCE), over the agglomeration of mega-sites (4200/4100-3650 BCE), to the dispersal phase (3650-3000 BCE). High δ15N values mostly come from the mega-sites. Our analyses show that the subsistence of Trypillia mega-sites depended on pulses cultivated on strongly manured (dung-)soils and on cattle that were kept fenced on intensive pastures to easy collect the manure for pulse cultivation. The food web models indicate a low proportion of meat in human diet (approximately 10%). The largely crop-based diet, consisting of cereals plus up to 46% pulses, was balanced in calories and indispensable amino acids. The flourishing of Europe's first mega-populations depended on an advanced, integral mega-economy that included sophisticated dung management. Their demise was therefore not economically, but socially, conditioned [Hofmann et al., PLoS One. 14, e0222243 (2019)].
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- Frank Schlütz
- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua35122, Italy
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- National Museum of Natural Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv01030, Ukraine
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- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Institute for Ecosystem Research, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24118 Kiel
- Baden-Württemberg State Office for Cultural Heritage, 78343 Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany
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- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24105, Germany
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- Research Laboratory of Archaeology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Kyiv04053, Ukraine
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv01030, Ukraine
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- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation,” Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel24118, Germany
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Filipović D, Meadows J, Corso MD, Kirleis W, Alsleben A, Akeret Ö, Bittmann F, Bosi G, Ciută B, Dreslerová D, Effenberger H, Gyulai F, Heiss AG, Hellmund M, Jahns S, Jakobitsch T, Kapcia M, Klooß S, Kohler-Schneider M, Kroll H, Makarowicz P, Marinova E, Märkle T, Medović A, Mercuri AM, Mueller-Bieniek A, Nisbet R, Pashkevich G, Perego R, Pokorný P, Pospieszny Ł, Przybyła M, Reed K, Rennwanz J, Stika HP, Stobbe A, Tolar T, Wasylikowa K, Wiethold J, Zerl T. New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13698. [PMID: 32792561 PMCID: PMC7426858 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 BC. In Europe, millet was reported in Early Neolithic contexts formed by 6000 BC, but recent radiocarbon dating of a dozen 'early' grains cast doubt on these claims. Archaeobotanical evidence reveals that millet was common in Europe from the 2nd millennium BC, when major societal and economic transformations took place in the Bronze Age. We conducted an extensive programme of AMS-dating of charred broomcorn millet grains from 75 prehistoric sites in Europe. Our Bayesian model reveals that millet cultivation began in Europe at the earliest during the sixteenth century BC, and spread rapidly during the fifteenth/fourteenth centuries BC. Broomcorn millet succeeds in exceptionally wide range of growing conditions and completes its lifecycle in less than three summer months. Offering an additional harvest and thus surplus food/fodder, it likely was a transformative innovation in European prehistoric agriculture previously based mainly on (winter) cropping of wheat and barley. We provide a new, high-resolution chronological framework for this key agricultural development that likely contributed to far-reaching changes in lifestyle in late 2nd millennium BC Europe.
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- Dragana Filipović
- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2-6, 24118, Kiel, Germany.
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- Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf, 24837, Schleswig, Germany.
- Leibniz-Laboratory for AMS Dating and Stable Isotope Research, Kiel University, Max-Eyth-Str. 11-13, 24118, Kiel, Germany.
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2-6, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 2-6, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2, 55131, Mainz, Germany
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- Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie IPNA, Basel University, Spalenring 145, 4055, Basel, Switzerland
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- Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Viktoriastraße 26/28, 26382, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, 41125, Modena, Italy
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- Facultatea de Istorie şi Filologie, Universitatea "1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia, Strada Unirii 15-17, 510009, Alba Iulia, Romania
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- Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Letenská 4, 118 01, Praha 1, Czech Republic
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- Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Szent István University, Páter Károly utca 1, Gödöllő, 2103, Hungary
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- Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Franz Klein-Gasse 1, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt-Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Richard-Wagner-Str. 9, 06114, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum Ortsteil Wünsdorf, Wünsdorfer Platz 4-5, 15806, Zossen, Germany
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- Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Franz Klein-Gasse 1, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512, Kraków, Poland
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- Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein, Brockdorff-Rantzau-Straße 70, 24837, Schleswig, Germany
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- Department für Integrative Biologie, Universität für Bodenkultur, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180, Vienna, Austria
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- Independent Researcher, Projensdorfer Str. 195, 24106, Kiel, Germany
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Landesamt für Denkmalpflege am Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Fischersteig 9, 78343, Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany
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- Landesamt für Denkmalpflege am Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Fischersteig 9, 78343, Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, 41125, Modena, Italy
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- Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512, Kraków, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3462, 30123, Venezia, Italy
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- National Museum of Natural Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine, Bul. Bohdan Khmelnitsky 15, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine
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- Laboratory of Palynology and Palaeoecology CNR IGAG, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126, Milan, Italy
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- Centre for Theoretical Study, Charles University Prague and Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UU, UK
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Rubież 46, 61-612, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Ul. Gołębia 11, 31-007, Kraków, Poland
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- Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, 34 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD, UK
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Rubież 46, 61-612, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Botany, Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstraße 30, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60629, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- ZRC SAZU, Institute of Archaeology, Novi trg 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512, Kraków, Poland
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- Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Direction régionale Grand Est, 12, rue de Méric, CS 80005, 57063, Metz cedex 2, France
- UMR 6298, ArTeHiS Dijon, Dijon, France
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, University of Köln, Weyertal 125, 50923, Köln, Germany
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Hofmann R, Müller J, Shatilo L, Videiko M, Ohlrau R, Rud V, Burdo N, Dal Corso M, Dreibrodt S, Kirleis W. Governing Tripolye: Integrative architecture in Tripolye settlements. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0222243. [PMID: 31553745 PMCID: PMC6760824 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Recently, high-resolution magnetometry surveys have led to the discovery of a special category of buildings-so-called 'mega-structures'-situated in highly visible positions in the public space of Tripolye giant-settlements of the late 5th and first half of the 4th millennium BCE. In this paper we explore what these buildings actually are and how they can contribute to the understanding of the development of social space in Tripolye giant-settlements. For this investigation, we linked newly obtained excavation data from the giant-settlement Maidanetske, Ukraine, with a much larger sample of such buildings from magnetic plans obtained in the region between the Carpathian foothills and the Dnieper River. Accordingly, Tripolye mega-structures represent a particular kind of integrative building documented in many non-ranked ethnographic contexts. Based on our results we are interpreting that these buildings were used for various ritual and non-ritual activities, joint decision-making, and the storage and consumption of surplus. In Tripolye giant-settlements at least three different categories of mega-structures could be identified which most likely represent different levels of socio-political integration and decision-making. The emergence of this hierarchical system of high-level integrative buildings for the whole community and different low-level integrative architectures for certain segments of local communities was related to the rise of Tripolye mega-sites. The presence of different integrative levels most likely reflects the fusion of different previously independent communities in the giant-settlements. Later in the mega-site development, we observe how low-level integrative buildings increasingly lose their importance indicated by shrinking size and, finally, their disappearance. This observation might indicate that the power which was previously distributed across the community was transferred to a central institution. It is argued that the non-acceptance of this concentration of power and the decline of lower decision-making levels might be a crucial factor for the disintegration of Tripolye giant-settlements around 3600 BCE.
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- Robert Hofmann
- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Laboratory of Archaeology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Collaborative Research Centre 1266: "Scales of Transformation—Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Cornille A, Antolín F, Garcia E, Vernesi C, Fietta A, Brinkkemper O, Kirleis W, Schlumbaum A, Roldán-Ruiz I. A Multifaceted Overview of Apple Tree Domestication. Trends Plant Sci 2019; 24:770-782. [PMID: 31296442 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Revised: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The apple is an iconic tree and a major fruit crop worldwide. It is also a model species for the study of the evolutionary processes and genomic basis underlying the domestication of clonally propagated perennial crops. Multidisciplinary approaches from across Eurasia have documented the pace and process of cultivation of this remarkable crop. While population genetics and genomics have revealed the overall domestication history of apple across Eurasia, untangling the evolutionary processes involved, archeobotany has helped to document the transition from gathering and using apples to the practice of cultivation. Further studies integrating archeogenetic and archeogenomic approaches will bring new insights about key traits involved in apple domestication. Such knowledge has potential to boost innovation in present-day apple breeding.
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- Amandine Cornille
- Génétique Quantitative et Evolution- Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPNA/IPAS), Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Spalenring 145, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione Edmund Mach, via Edmund Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
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- Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione Edmund Mach, via Edmund Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
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- Cultural Heritage Agency, PO Box 1600, 3800 BP Amersfoort, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology/Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPNA/IPAS), Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Spalenring 145, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit, Caritasstraat 39, 9090 Melle, Belgium; Ghent University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Capuzzo G, Zanon M, Dal Corso M, Kirleis W, Barceló JA. Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200709. [PMID: 30089123 PMCID: PMC6082520 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The reconstruction of past demographic patterns is a fundamental step towards a better understanding of human-environment relations, especially in terms of quantifiable anthropic impact and population susceptibility to environmental changes. The recently developed Summed Calibrated Probability Distributions (SCPD) approach, based on large collections of archaeological radiocarbon dates, provides a new tool to obtain continuous prehistoric population curves suitable for comparison with palaeoenvironmental time series. Despite a wide application in Mesolithic and Neolithic contexts worldwide, the use of the SCPD method remains rare for post-Neolithic societies. Our aim is to address this visible gap and apply the SCPD approach to South European archeological contexts between the Bronze Age and the transition into the Iron Age (1800-800 cal. BC), then evaluating these results against local archeological narratives and palaeoecological data. We first test the SCPD method at a supra regional scale, ranging from the Ebro to the Danube rivers, and subsequently in five selected regions within this area. We then compare the regional population curves to climate data reconstructed from local palynological records. Our results highlight the contrast between a stable supra regional demographic trend and more dynamic regional patterns. We do not observe any convincing long-term correlations between population and climate, but localized episodes of demographic stagnation or decline are present in conjunction with climatic shifts or extremes. Nevertheless, climate change as a triggering factor should be considered with caution, especially in peripheral areas where the archaeological data is faint, or where local evidence points to contemporaneous, ongoing landscape overexploitation.
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- Giacomo Capuzzo
- Laboratory of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Quantitative Archaeology Lab (LAQU), Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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- Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Quantitative Archaeology Lab (LAQU), Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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Heron C, Shoda S, Breu Barcons A, Czebreszuk J, Eley Y, Gorton M, Kirleis W, Kneisel J, Lucquin A, Müller J, Nishida Y, Son JH, Craig OE. First molecular and isotopic evidence of millet processing in prehistoric pottery vessels. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38767. [PMID: 28004742 PMCID: PMC5177950 DOI: 10.1038/srep38767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Analysis of organic residues in pottery vessels has been successful in detecting a range of animal and plant products as indicators of food preparation and consumption in the past. However, the identification of plant remains, especially grain crops in pottery, has proved elusive. Extending the spectrum is highly desirable, not only to strengthen our understanding of the dispersal of crops from centres of domestication but also to determine modes of food processing, artefact function and the culinary significance of the crop. Here, we propose a new approach to identify millet in pottery vessels, a crop that spread throughout much of Eurasia during prehistory following its domestication, most likely in northern China. We report the successful identification of miliacin (olean-18-en-3β-ol methyl ether), a pentacyclic triterpene methyl ether that is enriched in grains of common/broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum), in Bronze Age pottery vessels from the Korean Peninsula and northern Europe. The presence of millet is supported by enriched carbon stable isotope values of bulk charred organic matter sampled from pottery vessel surfaces and extracted n-alkanoic acids, consistent with a C4 plant origin. These data represent the first identification of millet in archaeological ceramic vessels, providing a means to track the introduction, spread and consumption of this important crop.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carl Heron
- Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- BioArCh, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- Instytut Prahistorii, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznań, Poland
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- Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, USA
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- Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Sekihara 1, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2035, Japan
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- Department of Archaeology and Art History, Korea University, 2511 Sechong-ro, Jochiweon-up, Sejong-si, 339-700, South Korea
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- BioArCh, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
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