G C Hillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 202884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G C Hillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | G C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillman |
| SIGNATURE | HILLMAN G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland
Iceland was settled, primarily by peoples from Norway and the northern British Isles, in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first settlers brought with them from their homelands an agricultural system based on animal husbandry, of which cereal cultivation was an element and also with inputs from fishing, hunting and gathering of wild plants. There are strong indications that barley was cultivated during the first centuries in some parts of the count…
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates
Hitherto, the earliest archaeological finds of domestic cereals in southwestern Asia have involved wheats and barleys dating from the beginning of the Holocene, 11–12000 calendar years ago. New evidence from the site of Abu Hureyra suggests that systematic cultivation of cereals in fact started well before the end of the Pleistocene by at least 13000 years ago, and that rye was among the first crops. The evidence also indicates that hunter-gather…
On the Charred Seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: Food or Fuel
Cyperus rotundus L. (nutgrass) as an example of a major plant food available to predynastic populations and its exploitation
Parmi les restes de plantes carbonisées utilisées comme nourriture, les plus abondants sont les tubercules de souchet, Cyperus rotundus. Le nombre de ces tubercules découverts au Ouadi Kubbaniya (18000 BP) n’est pas important, mais il est néanmoins remarquable pour un site si ancien. L’abondance des fragments carbonisés de souchet reflète probablement le rôle important de ce tubercule dans le régime alimentaire kubbaniyien
Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods: A comparison of the role of chemical, histological and morphological criteria
The paper explores the problems of isolating criteria for use in identifying ancient remains of plant foods, and the possibility of using chemical residues in this role. It first discusses factors affecting the choice of such chemical criteria, and the taxonomic framework within which all chemical, morphological and histological criteria have to be assessed and applied. It then outlines three examples of the way in which criteria of all three typ…
Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia: New research at Jeitun, Turkmenistan
In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert
The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition and Human Economy in Southwest Asia: The Impact of the Younger Dryas
We present new evidence suggesting that the Late Glacial worldwide episode of cooling known as the Younger Dryas (ca. 11,000-10,000 B.P.) had a significant impact on climate, vegetation, and human economy in southwest Asia. In the Levant a new pollen core extracted from Lake Huleh and plant remains from the early village of Abu Hureyra 1 indicate that forest gave way to steppe in response to the onset of drier climatic conditions contemporary wit…
The Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation
Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates for the Epipaleolithic Settlement At Abu Hureyra, Syria
The prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra in Syria was occupied in both the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods. It has provided significant evidence for changes in economy at the time of the inception of agriculture in southwest Asia. Twenty accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates have been obtained to determine the duration of occupation of the Epipaleolithic settlement there and the precise age of samples of cereal grains and animal bones f…
The use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy to determine the thermal histories of cereal grains
The Excavation of Two Round Barrows at Trelystan, Powys
The excavation of two adjacent round barrows at Trelystan, Long Mountain, Powys, in 1979, has revealed a complex sequence of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age funerary structures and traces of Late Neolithic settlement. The earliest structure was a large pit grave, dated to about 2400 bc, which was superseded at about 2200 bc by a settlement represented by stake-walled buildings associated with Grooved Ware. Following this some activity took pl…
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale: The Finds from Aceramic Can Hasan III in Turkey
Wheat, barley and peas, traditional grain-crops of the Western World are, by now, well known to have originated in the Near East. It was the cultivation of the wild ancestors of these crops, beginning soon after the end of the last European Ice Age, that eventually led to an utterly new way of life for most of the population of Europe and Western Asia, a new Neolithic culture based on food production and complete with appropriately adapted tool a…
The Excavation of Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria: A preliminary report
In the last decade the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has undertaken a number of projects to develop the economy of the country. The most important of these has been the construction of a dam on the Euphrates at Tabqa (fig. 1), 40 km upstream from Raqqa. This project will bring great economic benefits to Syria but, as the valley behind the dam fills with water, many ancient sites will be drowned. Because very little was known about the ar…
Agricultural Productivity and Past Population Potential at Aşvan
This paper is not a discussion of archaeological evidence for past population levels in our area, nor of likely sequences of change in population through time. Instead, it is a set of estimations of upper levels of population that would have been possible at recent and ancient agricultural settlements in the Aşvan region, assuming certain combinations of territory, land management systems and levels of productivity. This contrasts, therefore, wit…
Agricultural Resources and Settlement in the Aşvan Region
Following Wagstaff's paper on physical geography and settlements, a brief expansion of the discussion of distribution of agricultural resources is in place. This topic provides the necessary background for studies conducted in the village itself as well as for the following paper on “Agricultural productivity and past population potential at Aşvan”. My object here is firstly, to outline the spatial distribution of major land resources (this is ac…
Crop Husbandry and Food Production: Modern Basis for the Interpretation of Plant remains
The full analysis of the initial and most exhaustive of our studies of present-day agriculture at Aşvan could not be completed in time for the present volume. It seemed relevant, however, to present a brief outline of some of the principles involved and the data collected. Samples of vegetable remains represent a body of information which is concerned (in part, at least) with human manipulations of plant resources. These plants may have functione…
Crop Husbandry and Food Production: Modern Basis for the Interpretation of Plant remains
The full analysis of the initial and most exhaustive of our studies of present-day agriculture at Aşvan could not be completed in time for the present volume. It seemed relevant, however, to present a brief outline of some of the principles involved and the data collected. Samples of vegetable remains represent a body of information which is concerned (in part, at least) with human manipulations of plant resources. These plants may have functione…
New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates
Hitherto, the earliest archaeological finds of domestic cereals in southwestern Asia have involved wheats and barleys dating from the beginning of the Holocene, 11–12000 calendar years ago. New evidence from the site of Abu Hureyra suggests that systematic cultivation of cereals in fact started well before the end of the Pleistocene by at least 13000 years ago, and that rye was among the first crops. The evidence also indicates that hunter-gather…
On the Charred Seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: Food or Fuel
Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods: A comparison of the role of chemical, histological and morphological criteria
The paper explores the problems of isolating criteria for use in identifying ancient remains of plant foods, and the possibility of using chemical residues in this role. It first discusses factors affecting the choice of such chemical criteria, and the taxonomic framework within which all chemical, morphological and histological criteria have to be assessed and applied. It then outlines three examples of the way in which criteria of all three typ…
The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition and Human Economy in Southwest Asia: The Impact of the Younger Dryas
We present new evidence suggesting that the Late Glacial worldwide episode of cooling known as the Younger Dryas (ca. 11,000-10,000 B.P.) had a significant impact on climate, vegetation, and human economy in southwest Asia. In the Levant a new pollen core extracted from Lake Huleh and plant remains from the early village of Abu Hureyra 1 indicate that forest gave way to steppe in response to the onset of drier climatic conditions contemporary wit…
The Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
The Excavation of Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria: A preliminary report
In the last decade the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has undertaken a number of projects to develop the economy of the country. The most important of these has been the construction of a dam on the Euphrates at Tabqa (fig. 1), 40 km upstream from Raqqa. This project will bring great economic benefits to Syria but, as the valley behind the dam fills with water, many ancient sites will be drowned. Because very little was known about the ar…
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
The Excavation of Two Round Barrows at Trelystan, Powys
The excavation of two adjacent round barrows at Trelystan, Long Mountain, Powys, in 1979, has revealed a complex sequence of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age funerary structures and traces of Late Neolithic settlement. The earliest structure was a large pit grave, dated to about 2400 bc, which was superseded at about 2200 bc by a settlement represented by stake-walled buildings associated with Grooved Ware. Following this some activity took pl…
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale: The Finds from Aceramic Can Hasan III in Turkey
Wheat, barley and peas, traditional grain-crops of the Western World are, by now, well known to have originated in the Near East. It was the cultivation of the wild ancestors of these crops, beginning soon after the end of the last European Ice Age, that eventually led to an utterly new way of life for most of the population of Europe and Western Asia, a new Neolithic culture based on food production and complete with appropriately adapted tool a…
Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates for the Epipaleolithic Settlement At Abu Hureyra, Syria
The prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra in Syria was occupied in both the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods. It has provided significant evidence for changes in economy at the time of the inception of agriculture in southwest Asia. Twenty accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates have been obtained to determine the duration of occupation of the Epipaleolithic settlement there and the precise age of samples of cereal grains and animal bones f…
The use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy to determine the thermal histories of cereal grains
Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia: New research at Jeitun, Turkmenistan
In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert
Agricultural Resources and Settlement in the Aşvan Region
Following Wagstaff's paper on physical geography and settlements, a brief expansion of the discussion of distribution of agricultural resources is in place. This topic provides the necessary background for studies conducted in the village itself as well as for the following paper on “Agricultural productivity and past population potential at Aşvan”. My object here is firstly, to outline the spatial distribution of major land resources (this is ac…
Agricultural Productivity and Past Population Potential at Aşvan
This paper is not a discussion of archaeological evidence for past population levels in our area, nor of likely sequences of change in population through time. Instead, it is a set of estimations of upper levels of population that would have been possible at recent and ancient agricultural settlements in the Aşvan region, assuming certain combinations of territory, land management systems and levels of productivity. This contrasts, therefore, wit…
Agricultural Productivity and Past Population Potential at Aşvan
This paper is not a discussion of archaeological evidence for past population levels in our area, nor of likely sequences of change in population through time. Instead, it is a set of estimations of upper levels of population that would have been possible at recent and ancient agricultural settlements in the Aşvan region, assuming certain combinations of territory, land management systems and levels of productivity. This contrasts, therefore, wit…
Agricultural Resources and Settlement in the Aşvan Region
Following Wagstaff's paper on physical geography and settlements, a brief expansion of the discussion of distribution of agricultural resources is in place. This topic provides the necessary background for studies conducted in the village itself as well as for the following paper on “Agricultural productivity and past population potential at Aşvan”. My object here is firstly, to outline the spatial distribution of major land resources (this is ac…
Crop Husbandry and Food Production: Modern Basis for the Interpretation of Plant remains
The full analysis of the initial and most exhaustive of our studies of present-day agriculture at Aşvan could not be completed in time for the present volume. It seemed relevant, however, to present a brief outline of some of the principles involved and the data collected. Samples of vegetable remains represent a body of information which is concerned (in part, at least) with human manipulations of plant resources. These plants may have functione…
The Excavation of Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria: A preliminary report
In the last decade the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has undertaken a number of projects to develop the economy of the country. The most important of these has been the construction of a dam on the Euphrates at Tabqa (fig. 1), 40 km upstream from Raqqa. This project will bring great economic benefits to Syria but, as the valley behind the dam fills with water, many ancient sites will be drowned. Because very little was known about the ar…
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale: The Finds from Aceramic Can Hasan III in Turkey
Wheat, barley and peas, traditional grain-crops of the Western World are, by now, well known to have originated in the Near East. It was the cultivation of the wild ancestors of these crops, beginning soon after the end of the last European Ice Age, that eventually led to an utterly new way of life for most of the population of Europe and Western Asia, a new Neolithic culture based on food production and complete with appropriately adapted tool a…
The Excavation of Two Round Barrows at Trelystan, Powys
The excavation of two adjacent round barrows at Trelystan, Long Mountain, Powys, in 1979, has revealed a complex sequence of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age funerary structures and traces of Late Neolithic settlement. The earliest structure was a large pit grave, dated to about 2400 bc, which was superseded at about 2200 bc by a settlement represented by stake-walled buildings associated with Grooved Ware. Following this some activity took pl…
The use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy to determine the thermal histories of cereal grains
Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates for the Epipaleolithic Settlement At Abu Hureyra, Syria
The prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra in Syria was occupied in both the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods. It has provided significant evidence for changes in economy at the time of the inception of agriculture in southwest Asia. Twenty accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates have been obtained to determine the duration of occupation of the Epipaleolithic settlement there and the precise age of samples of cereal grains and animal bones f…
Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation
The Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition and Human Economy in Southwest Asia: The Impact of the Younger Dryas
We present new evidence suggesting that the Late Glacial worldwide episode of cooling known as the Younger Dryas (ca. 11,000-10,000 B.P.) had a significant impact on climate, vegetation, and human economy in southwest Asia. In the Levant a new pollen core extracted from Lake Huleh and plant remains from the early village of Abu Hureyra 1 indicate that forest gave way to steppe in response to the onset of drier climatic conditions contemporary wit…
Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods: A comparison of the role of chemical, histological and morphological criteria
The paper explores the problems of isolating criteria for use in identifying ancient remains of plant foods, and the possibility of using chemical residues in this role. It first discusses factors affecting the choice of such chemical criteria, and the taxonomic framework within which all chemical, morphological and histological criteria have to be assessed and applied. It then outlines three examples of the way in which criteria of all three typ…
Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia: New research at Jeitun, Turkmenistan
In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert
Cyperus rotundus L. (nutgrass) as an example of a major plant food available to predynastic populations and its exploitation
Parmi les restes de plantes carbonisées utilisées comme nourriture, les plus abondants sont les tubercules de souchet, Cyperus rotundus. Le nombre de ces tubercules découverts au Ouadi Kubbaniya (18000 BP) n’est pas important, mais il est néanmoins remarquable pour un site si ancien. L’abondance des fragments carbonisés de souchet reflète probablement le rôle important de ce tubercule dans le régime alimentaire kubbaniyien
On the Charred Seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: Food or Fuel
New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates
Hitherto, the earliest archaeological finds of domestic cereals in southwestern Asia have involved wheats and barleys dating from the beginning of the Holocene, 11–12000 calendar years ago. New evidence from the site of Abu Hureyra suggests that systematic cultivation of cereals in fact started well before the end of the Pleistocene by at least 13000 years ago, and that rye was among the first crops. The evidence also indicates that hunter-gather…
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
Charred remains of grains and seeds from the medieval high-status farm site of Reykholt in western Iceland
Iceland was settled, primarily by peoples from Norway and the northern British Isles, in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first settlers brought with them from their homelands an agricultural system based on animal husbandry, of which cereal cultivation was an element and also with inputs from fishing, hunting and gathering of wild plants. There are strong indications that barley was cultivated during the first centuries in some parts of the count…
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