TY  - JOUR
AU  - de Vareilles, Anne
AU  - Filipović, Dragana
AU  - Obradović, Đurđa
AU  - Vander Linden, Marc
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/390
AB  - Agriculture is a complex and dynamic socio-ecological system shaped by environmental, economic, and social factors. The crop resource pool is its key component and one that best reflects environmental limitations and socio-economic concerns of the farmers. This pertains in particular to small-scale subsistence production, as was practised by Neolithic farmers. We investigated if and how the environment and cultural complexes shaped the spectrum and diversity of crops cultivated by Neolithic farmers in the central-western Balkans and on the Hungarian Plain. We did so by exploring patterns in crop diversity between biogeographical regions and cultural complexes using multivariate statistical analyses. We also examined the spectrum of wild-gathered plant resources in the same way. We found that the number of species in Neolithic plant assemblages is correlated with sampling intensity (the number and volume of samples), but that this applies to all archaeological cultures. Late Neolithic communities of the central and western Balkans exploited a large pool of plant resources, whose spectrum was somewhat different between archaeological cultures. By comparison, the earliest Neolithic tradition in the region, the Starcevo-Koros-Cris phenomenon, seems to have used a comparatively narrower range of crops and wild plants, as did the Linearbandkeramik culture on the Hungarian Plain.
PB  - Mdpi, Basel
T2  - Quaternary
T1  - Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables
IS  - 1
VL  - 5
DO  - 10.3390/quat5010006
ER  - 

@article{
author = "de Vareilles, Anne and Filipović, Dragana and Obradović, Đurđa and Vander Linden, Marc",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Agriculture is a complex and dynamic socio-ecological system shaped by environmental, economic, and social factors. The crop resource pool is its key component and one that best reflects environmental limitations and socio-economic concerns of the farmers. This pertains in particular to small-scale subsistence production, as was practised by Neolithic farmers. We investigated if and how the environment and cultural complexes shaped the spectrum and diversity of crops cultivated by Neolithic farmers in the central-western Balkans and on the Hungarian Plain. We did so by exploring patterns in crop diversity between biogeographical regions and cultural complexes using multivariate statistical analyses. We also examined the spectrum of wild-gathered plant resources in the same way. We found that the number of species in Neolithic plant assemblages is correlated with sampling intensity (the number and volume of samples), but that this applies to all archaeological cultures. Late Neolithic communities of the central and western Balkans exploited a large pool of plant resources, whose spectrum was somewhat different between archaeological cultures. By comparison, the earliest Neolithic tradition in the region, the Starcevo-Koros-Cris phenomenon, seems to have used a comparatively narrower range of crops and wild plants, as did the Linearbandkeramik culture on the Hungarian Plain.",
publisher = "Mdpi, Basel",
journal = "Quaternary",
title = "Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables",
number = "1",
volume = "5",
doi = "10.3390/quat5010006"
}

de Vareilles, A., Filipović, D., Obradović, Đ.,& Vander Linden, M.. (2022). Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables. in Quaternary
Mdpi, Basel., 5(1).
https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010006

de Vareilles A, Filipović D, Obradović Đ, Vander Linden M. Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables. in Quaternary. 2022;5(1).
doi:10.3390/quat5010006 .

de Vareilles, Anne, Filipović, Dragana, Obradović, Đurđa, Vander Linden, Marc, "Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables" in Quaternary, 5, no. 1 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010006 . .