New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

Autor: Filipovic, D., Meadows, J., Corso, M. D., Kirleis, W., Alsleben, A., Akeret, O., Bittmann, F., Bosi, G., Ciuta, B., Dreslerova, D., Effenberger, H., Gyulai, F., Heiss, A. G., Hellmund, M., Jahns, S., Jakobitsch, T., Kapcia, M., Klooss, S., Kohler-Schneider, M., Kroll, H., Makarowicz, P., Marinova, E., Markle, T., Medovic, A., Mercuri, A. M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Nisbet, R., Pashkevich, G., Perego, R., Pokorny, P., Pospieszny, L., Przybyla, M., Reed, K., Rennwanz, J., Stika, H. -P., Stobbe, A., Tolar, T., Wasylikowa, K., Wiethold, J., Zerl, T.
Přispěvatelé: Institut fûr Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation (ZBSA), Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Basel, Niedersächsisches Institut für Historische Küstenforschung (NIHK), Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaUniversità degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Facultatea de Istorie şi Filologie, Universitatea '1 Decembrie 1918' Alba Iulia, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAI), Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt (LDA-LSA), Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein, Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg, Museum of Vojvodina, Partenaires INRAE, Department of Palaeobotany, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Institut fur UR-und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Filipović, D, Meadows, J, Corso, M D, Kirleis, W, Alsleben, A, Akeret, Ö, Bittmann, F, Bosi, G, Ciută, B, Dreslerová, D, Effenberger, H, Gyulai, F, Heiss, A G, Hellmund, M, Jahns, S, Jakobitsch, T, Kapcia, M, Klooß, S, Kohler-Schneider, M, Kroll, H, Makarowicz, P, Marinova, E, Märkle, T, Medović, A, Mercuri, A M, Mueller-Bieniek, A, Nisbet, R, Pashkevich, G, Perego, R, Pokorný, P, Pospieszny, Ł, Przybyła, M, Reed, K, Rennwanz, J, Stika, H P, Stobbe, A, Tolar, T, Wasylikowa, K, Wiethold, J & Zerl, T 2020, ' New AMS 14 C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe ', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 13698 (2020) . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2020, 10, pp.13698. ⟨10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z⟩
Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2020)
ISSN: 2045-2322
Popis: International audience; 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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