Microbotanical evidence of domestic cereals in Africa 7000 years ago

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• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.contributor.author García-Granero Fos, Juan José
• dc.contributor.author Out, Welmoed A.
• dc.contributor.author Ryan, Philippa
• dc.contributor.author Usai, Donatella
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-16T06:52:42Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-16T06:52:42Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description.abstract The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the results of one of the few examples in Africa of microbotanical analyses. Three grave contexts of phytolith-rich deposits and the dental calculus of 20 individuals were analysed from two Neolithic cemeteries in North and Central Sudan. The radiocarbon-dated phytoliths from the burial samples show the presence of Near East domestic cereals in Northern Sudan at least 7000 years ago. Phytoliths also indicate the exploitation of wild, savannah-adapted millets in Central Sudan between 7500 and 6500 years ago. The calculus samples contained starch grains from wheat/barley, pulses and millets, as well as panicoid phytoliths. This evidence shows that Near East domestic cereals were consumed in Northern Africa at least 500 years earlier than previously thought.
• dc.description.sponsorship J. J. G. G. received a salary from a JAE Predoc scholarship from the Spanish National Research Council and the European Social Fund. W. A. O. received a salary from an E. U. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (273610). P. R. received a salary from an AHRC Research Grant (AH/K006193/1). The authors received no specific research funding for this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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• dc.identifier.citation Madella M, García-Granero JJ, Out WA, Ryan P, Usai D. Microbotanical evidence of domestic cereals in Africa 7000 years ago. PLoS ONE. 2014 Oct 22;9(10):e110177. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110177
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110177
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58696
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE. 2014 Oct 22;9(10):e110177
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/273610
• dc.rights © 2014 Madella et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.other Cereals
• dc.subject.other Àfrica
• dc.subject.other Neolític
• dc.subject.other Midó
• dc.subject.other Animals domèstics
• dc.title Microbotanical evidence of domestic cereals in Africa 7000 years ago
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