Gordon Hillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 379656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Hillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillman |
| SIGNATURE | HILLMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | (Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Foraging and Farming
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…
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
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 Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale
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…
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
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…
Foraging and Farming
Crop Husbandry and Food Production
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…
Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods
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 Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale
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…
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
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…
On the Origins of Domestic Rye— Secale Cereale
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 Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply]
Identifying problematic remains of ancient plant foods
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…
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
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…
Foraging and Farming
Biology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Agronomy (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Botany (3 works)