Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables
Apstrakt
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 c...ommunities 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.
Ključne reči:
wild plants / Neolithic / Hungarian Plain / diversity / crops / central-western Balkans / agricultureIzvor:
Quaternary, 2022, 5, 1Izdavač:
- Mdpi, Basel
Finansiranje / projekti:
- German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [2901391021-SFB 1266]
- EUROFARM [ERC-2012-StG-20111124]
- Arheologija Srbije: kulturni identitet, integracioni faktori, tehnološki procesi i uloga centralnog Balkana u razvoju evropske praistorije (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177020)
- Društvo, duhovno-materijalna kultura i komunikacije u praistoriji i ranoj istoriji Balkana (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177012)
DOI: 10.3390/quat5010006
ISSN: 2571-550X
WoS: 000776302600001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85123825962
Institucija/grupa
Археолошки институт / Institute of ArchaeologyTY - 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 -
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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 . .