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Mazzucco, Niccolò
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Guilbaud, D.
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Petrinelli, C.
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Gassin, Bernard
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Ibáñez-Estévez, Juan José
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Gibaja, Juan Francisco
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2017
Neolithic societies were defined by the development of agricultural economies not only because part of their diet was obtained from cultivated plants, but also because crop-husbandry practices strongly affected people's lifestyles in a variety of ways. It is therefore unsurprising that the development and diffusion of agriculture can be studied from diverse perspectives and with different approaches, by analysing, for example, the macro- and micro-botanical remains of fruits and grains for morphometric and taxonomic variation (Colledge & Conolly 2007) and genetic history (Mascher et al. 2016). Conversely, agriculture can be indirectly assessed through its impact on the environment and subsequent landscape modifications (Zanchetta et al. 2013; Mercuri 2014). Yet another approach explores crop-husbandry practices as reflected in changing technology. New agricultural tasks required the adaptation of existing technologies and the adoption of new tools and practices, including querns, millstones and other grain-grinding equipment, as well as artefacts and structures for grain storage, cooking and processing.
Antiquity - Cambridge (91/356) : e2 (2017)
0003-598X
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/153788
10.15184/aqy.2016.273
1745-1744
Crop-reaping technologies
Neolithic
Central Mediterranean
Agricultural economies
Harvest time: crop-reaping technologies and the Neolithisation of the Central Mediterranean