George Willcox, an
archaeobotanist affiliated with the University of Lyon in France, agrees that the geographical distance of the Zagros Mountains from the western Fertile Crescent could suggest an independent origin for crop cultivation.
Archaeobotanical investigations in medieval towns of Finland (Vuorela & Hiekkanen 1991; Vuorela & Lempiainen 1993; Vuorela 1994), as well as attempts made in this field in the suburban areas of medieval Tallinn (Kihno 1995a), encouraged the archaeologist Mare Aun to involve both an
archaeobotanist and a palynologist in the project (Hiie 1995; 2002; Kihno 1995b).
Wild cereal cultivation began around the same time at sites extending east from the West Bank, Turkey, Syria and the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to Iraq and Iran, writes
archaeobotanist George Willcox of Lumiere University Lyon 2, France, in the same issue of Science.
The criticism of the author about the situation is the criticism of an unemployed graduated
archaeobotanist. She considers it not only her personal problem but as the result of the situation in Estonian archaeology and in Estonian science.
Villages from around 5,000 years ago in the Fuzhou Basin and on Taiwan contain similar types of pottery, supporting Rolett's argument, remarks
archaeobotanist Dorian Fuller of University College London.
Six ditches at Eberdingen-Hochdorf, a 2,550-year-old Celtic settlement, were used to make high-quality barley malt, a key beer ingredient, says
archaeobotanist Hans-Peter Stika of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany.
Archaeobotanist Klaus Oeggl of the University of Innsbruck in Austria reported in 2000 that high levels of a binding material used in Otzi's equipment appeared not just near his body but also on a ridge that includes the burial platform proposed by Vanzetti's team.
At the site, Kemp's team found large, well-heated conical vats that were encrusted on the inside with a cereal-based residue, says Kemp's colleague Delwen Samuel, an
archaeobotanist at University College London.
Delwen Samuel, an
archaeobotanist at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge in England, examined the samples with both optical and scanning electron microscopes.
The research team is comprised archaeologists with a joint support of anthropologists,
archaeobotanists, conservators and restorers.
"Pedologists and
archaeobotanists have conducted sampling and measurements," but in only two sectors of ridged fields (p.
The Project also partnered with
archaeobotanists at Paleo-Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to conduct a pilot study using soil samples from the collection.