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Harvest time: crop-reaping technologies and the Neolithisation of the Central Mediterranean
Mazzucco, Niccolò
Guilbaud, D.
Petrinelli, C.
Gassin, Bernard
Ibáñez-Estévez, Juan José
Gibaja, Juan Francisco
Crop-reaping technologies
Neolithic
Central Mediterranean
Agricultural economies
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.
Peer reviewed
2017-08-02T09:53:20Z
2017-08-02T09:53:20Z
2017
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Antiquity - Cambridge (91/356) : e2 (2017)
0003-598X
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/153788
10.15184/aqy.2016.273
1745-1744
en
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.273
Sí
none
Cambridge University Press