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On the Verge of Domestication: Early Use of C4 Plants in the Horn of Africa
Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Yemane Meresa, Stefano Biagetti, Carla Lancelotti · 2023
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article and archaeobotanical dataset
- Publication
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 120, no. 27, e2300166120
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Mezber — date assertioninforms · dates · Chronological model and plant microremain contexts
Provides phase-specific dates and subsistence evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Early Pre-Aksumite modeled phase
Provides the chronological range.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Early Pre-Aksumite modeled phase
Provides the chronological range.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Early Pre-Aksumite modeled phase
Provides the chronological range.
- date assertion Northern Ethiopian highlands — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Chronology and archaeobotanical results
Provides local subsistence and settlement evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite plant-use contexts
Provides direct subsistence evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite plant-use contexts
Provides direct subsistence evidence.
- date assertion Initial Pre-Aksumite phase — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite contexts
Adds subsistence evidence.
- date assertion Early Pre-Aksumite phase — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Early Pre-Aksumite contexts
Provides plant-use and settlement evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite plant-use contexts
Provides direct subsistence evidence.
- relationship Mezber — type sequence for — Early Pre-Aksumite phaseEvidence confidence: highsupports · dates · Modeled phase contexts
Supports the range.
- entity MezberEvidence confidence: highsupports · dates · Chronological model and plant microremain contexts
Provides phase-specific dates and subsistence evidence.
- event Early Pre-Aksumite village transition at MezberEvidence confidence: highsupports · dates · Early Pre-Aksumite modeled phase
Provides the chronological range.
- date assertion Early Pre-Aksumite village transition at Mezber — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · dates · Early Pre-Aksumite modeled phase
Provides the chronological range.
- entity Initial Pre-Aksumite phaseEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite contexts
Adds subsistence evidence.
- entity Early Pre-Aksumite phaseEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · Early Pre-Aksumite contexts
Provides plant-use and settlement evidence.
- event Initial Pre-Aksumite occupation at MezberEvidence confidence: very highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite plant-use contexts
Provides direct subsistence evidence.
- claim Mezber’s Initial Pre-Aksumite communities used mixed pastoral and plant-processing strategies that developed locally through the second and early first millennia BCE.Evidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Phytolith, starch and phase results
Provides the plant-use evidence.
- property assignment Mezber — has property — Pastoral componentEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Plant-use results
Provides subsistence evidence.
- causal hypothesis Mezber’s village transition emerged through local development with selective external contactEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Plant-use continuity and phase change
Provides subsistence continuity.
- claim Eastern Sudan, highland agriculture, pastoral mobility and inland exchange must be treated as active systems in their own right rather than as passive extensions of external Red…Evidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Mezber plant-use evidence
Provides highland subsistence evidence.
- entity Northern Ethiopian highlandsEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Chronology and archaeobotanical results
Provides local subsistence and settlement evidence.
- date assertion Initial Pre-Aksumite occupation at Mezber — date assertionEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Initial Pre-Aksumite plant-use contexts
Provides direct subsistence evidence.