The Current State of Archaeobotanical Study in Ukraine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22041496 |
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| Authors | Galyna Pashkevych (0000-0003-1084-3485, State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, corresponding author), G O Pashkevych |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 292-298 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2227-4952 • E-ISSN: 2708-6143 |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.37445/adiu.2020.04.24 |
| OpenAlex | W3150539401 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The territory of Ukraine was the first on the path of the Neolithic tribes to the territory of the East European Plain. These tribes brought here cultivated plants with the skills of their cultivation (hulled wheat, barley, legumes) from the center of origin, from Asia Minor through the Balkan Peninsula. N. I. Vavilov considered that the territory of Ukraine together with Moldova was one of the ancient places of farmers culture. He received confirmation of his assumption about the existence of crops of ancient hulled wheat in the closed mountainous regions of the Carpathians. In 1940 he found a hulled wheat Triticum dicoccum in the vicinity of the village of Putila near Chernivtsi. Recently thanks to modern research and radiocarbon dates on charred broomcorn millet grains Ukraine has a gateway through which millet from China, the birthplace of its origin, has spread to Europe. The earliest radiocarbon date (1631—1455 cal BC) in Europe is coming from the site Vinogradnyi Sad of Sabatynivka culture, Bronze Age. This date was received thanks to the European program «When and Where broomcorn millet arrived in Europe». Reports of much earlier occurrences of millet in Neolithic — Early Bronze Age (6th — early 3rd millennium BC) were almost entirely based on millet-looking impressions in pottery, daub and figurines. A recent re-examination of these impressions on figurines from the Usatovo culture with using a scanning electron microscope excluded millet grains as a source for some of the imprints. European researchers show great interest in archaeobotanical records of the crop from archaeological excavations of the territory of Ukraine. The use of modern research methods such as a scanning electron microscope, stable isotope evidence, modernized radiocarbon dating, chemical analysis of microparticles using a mass spectrometer, and analysis of DNA will allow a new look at the earliest obtained results
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · China · Crop · Geography · Paleoethnobotany · Peninsula · Pottery · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine · History · Soil and Environmental Studies · Forestry
Dietary habits in the Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) of Anatolia
Millets across Eurasia
Early crop diversity
Millet cultivation history in the French Alps as evidenced by a sedimentary molecule
Stable isotopic analysis of human bones from Jiahu site, Henan, China
The early chronology of broomcorn millet ( Panicum miliaceum ) in Europe
Flotation Techniques for the Recovery of Small-Scale Archaeological Remains
Environment and economic activities of Neolithic and Bronze age populations of the Northern Pontic area
Re-examining millet impressions in Usatovo clay materials from NW Black Sea region, Ukraine
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