Mark Nesbitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 182728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Nesbitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Nesbitt |
| SIGNATURE | NESBITT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9588-4296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the legal, policy, ethical and practical implications of digitisation of botanical and fungal collections
Societal Impact Statement Dried plant and fungal specimens held in collections provide a unique asset to understand the natural world and inform conservation approaches. By creating freely available, digital images of these collections, these specimens can be used by more scientists from around the globe to ask research questions and apply new technologies. We consider the relevant laws, policies and agreements, which are required to ensure this …
A systematic methodology to assess the identity of plants in historical texts
We offer this multidisciplinary approach to more evidence-based assessment of the identity of plants in historical texts providing a measure of confidence for each suggested identity. Despite the experimental nature of our methodology and its limitations, its application allowed us to draw conclusions about the validity of suggested candidate plants as well as to distinguish between alternative candidates of the same historical plant name. Fully …
Pharmaceutical Terminology in Ancient and Medieval Time – andrachne, chrysocolla and Others
Ancient and medieval pharmacological and medical texts contain a substantial amount of plant and mineral names. In some cases, the identification is straightforward. But for the majority of the data, we are unable to identify these ingredients with high certainty. In this paper, we discuss a selection of plant and mineral names both from a humanities and sciences point of view. In one case, the scientists were even able to examine a plant in situ…
Mobile Museums
Ethnobiology Phase VI
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…
Gordon C. Hillman 20 July 1943 to 1 July 2018
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Botany in Victorian Jamaica
Twists, turns and trade
Economic botany collections
Potpourri as a Sustainable Plant Product
An Unusual Xylotheque with Plant Illustrations from Early Meiji Japan
Peer Reviewers
From collecting to cultivation
The role of wild grasses in subsistence and sedentism
Sedentism is usually regarded as a pre-condition for the development of crop husbandry in Southwest Asia and, consequently, sedentary pre-agrarian sites are an important focus of research on the origins of agriculture. It is often assumed that wild grasses were as important for hunter-gatherers as domesticated cereals were for early farmers, and that wild grass exploitation may therefore have had a critical role in enabling sedentism. Results fro…
Organisation and Management of Seed Reference Collections
Reference collections of accurately identified, recent seeds are an essential resource for seed identification in archaeobotany, agronomy, palaeoecology and studies of wildlife diet. Recommendations are given for sourcing of seed materials and storage systems. The usefulness of computer databases for cataloguing of seed collections is emphasised, and 18 core data fields (based on the HISPID data standard for herbarium collections) are proposed
Plant stores at pottery Neolithic Höyücek, southwest Turkey
Eleven samples comprising an estimated 39,000 plant remains were analysed from a burnt destruction level at the pottery Neolithic site of Höyücek, southwest Turkey (radiocarbon dated 7550–7350 uncalibrated bp, 6400–6100 calibrated BC). Large stores of emmer ( Triticum dicoccum ), free threshing wheat ( Triticum aestivum/durum ), lentils ( Lens culinaris ), bitter vetch ( Vicia ervilia ) and chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) were identified and these p…
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Neolithic diet and subsistence at M'lefaat (Iraq)
The archaeobotanical assemblage of the Aceramic Neolithic site of M'lefaat, dated to the beginning of the 10th millennium uncal. BP, is dominated by legumes, especially Vicieae, Lathyrus/Vicia, Vicia ervilia and Lens, and by grasses, such as Hordeum spon- taneum/distichon, Aegilops cylindrica/tauschii/spehoides ssp. speltoides and Triticura boeoticum/Secale. Other taxa such as Gypsophila pilosa type and Bellevalia type, also count for a significa…
Saber and Scapegoat
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals: the Egyptian origins. viii + 149 pages, 94 illustrations, 6 tables. 1994. Warminster: Aris & Phillips; 0-85668-584-4 hardback £40 & 59.95. - Volume 69 Issue 264
Association for Environmental Archaeology, Spring Meeting, University of Sheffield, 22nd March 1995
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Dilmun diet at Saar, Bahrain
A flotation machine was used to process large quantities of earth at the Saar excavation in the 1990 and 1991 seasons. Carbonised seeds and charcoal were recovered from a wide range of contexts dating to about 1900 BC. While overall quantities were low, enough contexts were productive to allow quantification. Date stones were the most frequent crop remains, with smaller amounts of free‐threshing wheat and hulled six‐row barley. This confirms evid…
The role of wild grasses in subsistence and sedentism
Sedentism is usually regarded as a pre-condition for the development of crop husbandry in Southwest Asia and, consequently, sedentary pre-agrarian sites are an important focus of research on the origins of agriculture. It is often assumed that wild grasses were as important for hunter-gatherers as domesticated cereals were for early farmers, and that wild grass exploitation may therefore have had a critical role in enabling sedentism. Results fro…
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Neolithic diet and subsistence at M'lefaat (Iraq)
The archaeobotanical assemblage of the Aceramic Neolithic site of M'lefaat, dated to the beginning of the 10th millennium uncal. BP, is dominated by legumes, especially Vicieae, Lathyrus/Vicia, Vicia ervilia and Lens, and by grasses, such as Hordeum spon- taneum/distichon, Aegilops cylindrica/tauschii/spehoides ssp. speltoides and Triticura boeoticum/Secale. Other taxa such as Gypsophila pilosa type and Bellevalia type, also count for a significa…
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Dilmun diet at Saar, Bahrain
A flotation machine was used to process large quantities of earth at the Saar excavation in the 1990 and 1991 seasons. Carbonised seeds and charcoal were recovered from a wide range of contexts dating to about 1900 BC. While overall quantities were low, enough contexts were productive to allow quantification. Date stones were the most frequent crop remains, with smaller amounts of free‐threshing wheat and hulled six‐row barley. This confirms evid…
From collecting to cultivation
Plant stores at pottery Neolithic Höyücek, southwest Turkey
Eleven samples comprising an estimated 39,000 plant remains were analysed from a burnt destruction level at the pottery Neolithic site of Höyücek, southwest Turkey (radiocarbon dated 7550–7350 uncalibrated bp, 6400–6100 calibrated BC). Large stores of emmer ( Triticum dicoccum ), free threshing wheat ( Triticum aestivum/durum ), lentils ( Lens culinaris ), bitter vetch ( Vicia ervilia ) and chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) were identified and these p…
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Dilmun diet at Saar, Bahrain
A flotation machine was used to process large quantities of earth at the Saar excavation in the 1990 and 1991 seasons. Carbonised seeds and charcoal were recovered from a wide range of contexts dating to about 1900 BC. While overall quantities were low, enough contexts were productive to allow quantification. Date stones were the most frequent crop remains, with smaller amounts of free‐threshing wheat and hulled six‐row barley. This confirms evid…
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals
Douglas J. Brewer, Donald B. Redford & Susan Redford. Domestic plants and animals: the Egyptian origins. viii + 149 pages, 94 illustrations, 6 tables. 1994. Warminster: Aris & Phillips; 0-85668-584-4 hardback £40 & 59.95. - Volume 69 Issue 264
Association for Environmental Archaeology, Spring Meeting, University of Sheffield, 22nd March 1995
Saber and Scapegoat
Organisation and Management of Seed Reference Collections
Reference collections of accurately identified, recent seeds are an essential resource for seed identification in archaeobotany, agronomy, palaeoecology and studies of wildlife diet. Recommendations are given for sourcing of seed materials and storage systems. The usefulness of computer databases for cataloguing of seed collections is emphasised, and 18 core data fields (based on the HISPID data standard for herbarium collections) are proposed
Plant stores at pottery Neolithic Höyücek, southwest Turkey
Eleven samples comprising an estimated 39,000 plant remains were analysed from a burnt destruction level at the pottery Neolithic site of Höyücek, southwest Turkey (radiocarbon dated 7550–7350 uncalibrated bp, 6400–6100 calibrated BC). Large stores of emmer ( Triticum dicoccum ), free threshing wheat ( Triticum aestivum/durum ), lentils ( Lens culinaris ), bitter vetch ( Vicia ervilia ) and chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) were identified and these p…
Archaeobotanical evidence for early Neolithic diet and subsistence at M'lefaat (Iraq)
The archaeobotanical assemblage of the Aceramic Neolithic site of M'lefaat, dated to the beginning of the 10th millennium uncal. BP, is dominated by legumes, especially Vicieae, Lathyrus/Vicia, Vicia ervilia and Lens, and by grasses, such as Hordeum spon- taneum/distichon, Aegilops cylindrica/tauschii/spehoides ssp. speltoides and Triticura boeoticum/Secale. Other taxa such as Gypsophila pilosa type and Bellevalia type, also count for a significa…
The role of wild grasses in subsistence and sedentism
Sedentism is usually regarded as a pre-condition for the development of crop husbandry in Southwest Asia and, consequently, sedentary pre-agrarian sites are an important focus of research on the origins of agriculture. It is often assumed that wild grasses were as important for hunter-gatherers as domesticated cereals were for early farmers, and that wild grass exploitation may therefore have had a critical role in enabling sedentism. Results fro…
From collecting to cultivation
An Unusual Xylotheque with Plant Illustrations from Early Meiji Japan
Peer Reviewers
Potpourri as a Sustainable Plant Product
Economic botany collections
Botany in Victorian Jamaica
Twists, turns and trade
Gordon C. Hillman 20 July 1943 to 1 July 2018
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Mobile Museums
Ethnobiology Phase VI
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…
Pharmaceutical Terminology in Ancient and Medieval Time – andrachne, chrysocolla and Others
Ancient and medieval pharmacological and medical texts contain a substantial amount of plant and mineral names. In some cases, the identification is straightforward. But for the majority of the data, we are unable to identify these ingredients with high certainty. In this paper, we discuss a selection of plant and mineral names both from a humanities and sciences point of view. In one case, the scientists were even able to examine a plant in situ…
A systematic methodology to assess the identity of plants in historical texts
We offer this multidisciplinary approach to more evidence-based assessment of the identity of plants in historical texts providing a measure of confidence for each suggested identity. Despite the experimental nature of our methodology and its limitations, its application allowed us to draw conclusions about the validity of suggested candidate plants as well as to distinguish between alternative candidates of the same historical plant name. Fully …
Exploring the legal, policy, ethical and practical implications of digitisation of botanical and fungal collections
Societal Impact Statement Dried plant and fungal specimens held in collections provide a unique asset to understand the natural world and inform conservation approaches. By creating freely available, digital images of these collections, these specimens can be used by more scientists from around the globe to ask research questions and apply new technologies. We consider the relevant laws, policies and agreements, which are required to ensure this …
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