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Mark Nesbitt

Curator, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Royal …
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[BOOK][B] The cultural history of plants

G Prance, M Nesbitt - 2012 - books.google.com
This valuable reference will be useful for both scholars and general readers. It is both botanical
and cultural, describing the role of plant in social life, regional customs, the arts, natural …

[PDF][PDF] Use of herbarium specimens in ethnobotany

M Nesbitt - Curating biocultural collections. Kew: Royal Botanic …, 2014 - academia.edu
The herbarium—a collection of pressed plants mounted on paper—is central to the practice
of ethnobotany, and to the use of all the other plant collections discussed in this book. …

From staple crop to extinction? The archaeology and history of the hulled wheats.

M Nesbitt, D Samuel - 1996 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The importance of hulled wheats (Triticum monococcum, T. dicoccum, T. spelta) in past societies
is hardly reflected in their current status as a minor crop in isolated, marginal areas. The …

[PDF][PDF] When and where did domesticated cereals first occur in southwest Asia

M Nesbitt - The dawn of farming in the Near East, 2002 - researchgate.net
Pioneering archaeological and botanical fieldwork from the late 1950s to early 1970s established
two key points about the origins of the cereal-based farming economies of Europe and …

The role of wild grasses in subsistence and sedentism: new evidence from the northern Fertile Crescent

M Savard, M Nesbitt, MK Jones - World Archaeology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of archaeological remains of wheat: the 1992 London workshop

GC Hillman, S Mason, D de Moulins, M Nesbitt - Circaea, 1996 - academia.edu
… , Rainer Pasternak, Mark Robinson, Delwen Samuel, Marijke van der Veen, and George
Willcox. Successive drafts of this paper were prepared by Mark Nesbitt, incorporating comments …

Ethnobiology phase VI: decolonizing institutions, projects, and scholarship

…, L Joseph, TE Martínez-Cruz, M Nesbitt… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

[BOOK][B] Identification guide for Near Eastern grass seeds

M Nesbitt - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Archaeobotanical studies constantly encounter the carbonized grains of grasses, cultivated
and wild, but the vast diversity of wild species that are potentially present has made …

Linking biodiversity, food and nutrition: The importance of plant identification and nomenclature

M Nesbitt, RPH McBurney, M Broin… - Journal of food composition …, 2010 - Elsevier
The use of biodiversity for food and nutrition requires accurate, reliable and accessible food
composition data. It is essential for users of such data to be certain of the reliability of …

Some recent discoveries of millet (Panicum miliaceum L. and Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) at excavations in Turkey and Iran

M Nesbitt, GD Summers - Anatolian Studies, 1988 - cambridge.org
Mark Nesbitt would like to thank Gordon Hillman for modern millet samples, and for allowing
him to examine the millet from Gordion, and Stephen Mitchell for context information for A§…