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Paleoethnobotanical Study of Ancient Food Crops and the Environmental Context in North-East Africa 6000 BC-AD 200/300 (Paperback)
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Paleoethnobotanical Study of Ancient Food Crops and the Environmental Context in North-East Africa 6000 BC-AD 200/300 (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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Archaeobotanical investigation was conducted on a total of thirty
two thousand (n=32,000) pot fragments, baked clay and fired clay
collected from different sites belonging to five Cultural Groups in
Eastern Sudan. The Cultural Groups include Amm Adam, Butana, Gash,
Jebel Mokram, and Hagiz. Soil samples (6 kilos) were also analyzed
from various excavation spots at Mahal Teglinos, a major site that
rendered data on Butana, Gash, Jebel Mokram and Hagiz Groups. The
objective of the study was to reconstruct ancient food systems of
the pre-historic inhabitants of a region of Northeast Africa and
its environmental milieu. The result of the study demonstrated the
subsistence bases of the inhabitants from ca. 6,000 B.C. to 200/300
A.D. Crops like the small seeded millets (Setaria sp., Eleusine
sp., Paspalum sp., Echinochloa sp., Pennisetum sp.), Sorghum
verticilliflorum, Sorghum bicolor bicolor, Hordeum sp., Triticum
monococcum/dicoccum, and seeds and fruit stones (Vigna unguiculata,
Grewia bicolor Juss., Ziziphus sp. (mainly Ziziphus spina christi)
and Celtis integrifolia) were cultivated for consumption during
this period. The study has also shed new light on the domestication
history of Sorghum bicolor. The wild Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor
verticilliflorum and its cultivated variety, Sorghum bicolor were
simultaneously exploited by the Jebel Mokram Group people between
2,000 B.C. and 1,000 B.C. One of the oldest domesticated morphotype
of Sorghum bicolor, i.e. an intermediary phase between the wild
progenitor and its domesticated variety was revealed by the same
investigation. Morphological change that has occurred while the
species was evolving from wild to cultivated is measured using a
Leica Qwin software.
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