Skip to content

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …

  • Home
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Category: Archaeology

Posted on February 29, 2008February 29, 2008

Nibbles: Carnival, pomegranates, cattle, potatoes

  • Berry Go Round No. 2 is up with lots and lots of botanical links.
  • Pomegranate juice manufacturer says its juice is best.
  • Cattle and aurochs did the wild thing.
  • The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has a potato genebank. With pic goodness.
Posted on February 14, 2008

Mound builders of Norte Chico

Transitioning to agriculture on Peruvian coast 5000 years ago.

Posted on February 12, 2008February 12, 2008

Neolithic origins

The birth of Egyptian farming.

Posted on January 26, 2008January 26, 2008

Neolithic transitions

Dating agricultural spread in Europe from earliest appearance of cereals at archaeological sites.

Posted on January 16, 2008

Archaeo-agrobiodiversity discoveries highlighted

Squash seeds and chickens feature among the Top Ten discoveries of 2007, according to Archaeology Magazine. I believe we linked to both of these stories when they first appeared. The article on Polynesian breakthroughs also mentions work on pigs that we blogged about.

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 … Page 164 Next page

Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

    Published on March 13, 2026

Updates … delivered

Subscribe in a feed reader

Recent comments

  • Women’s Institute saves the apple – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on Nibbles: Bison, Jordan, Apples, Opium
  • This is what’s threatening crops around the world – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on What’s threatening crops around the world?
  • Exploring global diets – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on Global diets visualized
  • Exploring global diets – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on So how many crops feed the world anyway?
  • A home for genebank training at last? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog on How to get training in crop diversity conservation redux
Proudly powered by WordPress