Sentences with word «archaeobotanist»

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

Since 1989, archaeobotanist Ehud Weiss of Israel's Bar - Ilan University and his team have collected some 150,000 specimens of plant remains from the settlement known as Ohalo II.

Archaeologists around the world are condemning the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for laying off 18 researchers, in particular one of the world's leading archaeobotanists, Naomi Miller, who has been in the field for 30 years.

Six specially constructed ditches previously excavated at Eberdingen - Hochdorf a 2,550 - year - old Celtic settlement, were used to make high - quality barley malt, a key beer ingredient, says archaeobotanist Hans - Peter Stika of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.

Such early contacts between Tibet and China «point to a high - altitude component of the Silk Road in Tibet that has been largely neglected,» says Martin Jones, an archaeobotanist at the University of Cambridge.

«The findings are astonishing,» says Houyuan Lu, an archaeobotanist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing.

But true domestication probably happened only once — in China, says Dorian Fuller, an archaeobotanist at University College London.

That and other discoveries led Dolores Piperno, an archaeobotanist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and her co-workers to begin searching for archaeological evidence of the earliest maize in the Balsas River region.

The work confronts archaeologists «with the challenge of fitting this into our worldview,» says Dorian Fuller, an archaeobotanist at University College London who was not involved in the work.

So a team led by Amy Bogaard, an archaeobotanist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, decided to look for evidence in Europe, where farming began to spread from the Near East about 8500 years ago.