Broadening the narrative
Reflecting on archaeological discourses on plant domestication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24033980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Denham (0000-0002-8164-2990, Australian National University, corresponding author), Philippa Ryan (0000-0001-6645-9744, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Publication date | 2026-08-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2813-432X • E-ISSN: 2813-432X |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fearc.2026.1864134 |
| OpenAlex | W7203450369 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
Arguably, archaeological discourses on plant domestication have tended to be normative, linear and teleological. They often seek the emergence of specific phenotypic and, increasingly, genotypic traits through time. These temporal reconstructions of plant domestication foreground certain lineages of a crop, yet they simultaneously background an array of crop wild relatives and locally important cultivars and cultiwilds that existed through time and from which the major domesticate lineages arose. Consequently, a vast diversity of plants and associated historical biogeographies, as well as the people who cultivated them, have been marginalised from archaeological reconstructions of the past.
Archaeological evidence · Assemblage (archaeology) · Crop · Diversity (politics) · Domestication · Range (aeronautics) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |