Overview
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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Author: Alemseged Beldados
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Imprint: BAR Publishing
Volume: 2706
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 29.70cm
Weight: 0.407kg
ISBN: 9781407313573
ISBN 10: 1407313576
Pages: 102
Publication Date: 28 March 2015
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'.a significant contribution to the ethnobotanical knowledge of the region, including a catalogue of seed impressions that is essential to this developing methodological field..provides a dense body of data that adds substantially to both sherd impression analysis and the regional archaeobotanical data assemblage.the wealth of information presented, as well as the ethnobotanical modelling of plant impression chaînes opératoires and the inclusion of the detailed photographs of the impressions, creates a reference collection and model for plant impression analysis both in this area and more widely in archaeology as a whole.' Jennifer Bates, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51:4, 2016
'.a significant contribution to the ethnobotanical knowledge of the region, including a catalogue of seed impressions that is essential to this developing methodological field..provides a dense body of data that adds substantially to both sherd impression analysis and the regional archaeobotanical data assemblage.the wealth of information presented, as well as the ethnobotanical modelling of plant impression chaines operatoires and the inclusion of the detailed photographs of the impressions, creates a reference collection and model for plant impression analysis both in this area and more widely in archaeology as a whole.' Jennifer Bates, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51:4, 2016
