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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.

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  • Featured: Wurzels and mangelwurzels
  • Brainfood: Archaeology edition
  • Restarting a relationship with seeds
  • Joining the dots on food plant diversity
  • Mind the seed

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Fresh Nibbles

    • China is building its germplasm collection at the National Frigid Zone Crop and Soybean Germplasm Resources Mid-term Bank in Harbin. Cool.
    • Driscoll’s helped build China’s blueberry industry, then discovered that knowledge, infrastructure and genetics have a habit of escaping. Not so cool.
    • Meanwhile, the Philippines wants its rice collection to hit 21,000 varieties by the end of the year. IRRI unavailable for comment.
    • Italy is establishing a major global olive genebank. Unclear where it fits in with other major global olive genebanks, but some redundancy is good.
    • FAO showcases Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, where crops, landscapes and traditional knowledge have survived together. Like olives in Italy, I guess.
    • The mangelwurzel is making a comeback, because apparently forgotten root vegetables just need better publicity, and not a fancy GIAHS.
    • Ohio growers are trying to save the pawpaw just as Americans are discovering it, partly because of better publicity.
    • BeanGPT is bringing AI to breeding and farming beans. Maybe it can help the mangelwurzel and pawpaw too?

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