Valamoti, S. Maria. and Charles, M. (2005). Distinguishing food from fodder through the study of charred plant remains:. Interaction between man and plants.. Vol 14(4), pp. 528-533.

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Title:		 Distinguishing food from fodder through the study of charred plant remains:
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Subtitle:		 an experimental approach to dung-derived chaff
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Issue:		 Interaction between man and plants.
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Series:		 Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
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Volume:		 14 (4)
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Page Start/End:		 528 - 533
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Publication Type:		 Journal
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Abstract:		 paper on distinguishing human food from fodder in the archaeobotanical record -- categories that are culturally defined and, therefore, not obvious from the plant species represented in archaeological samples, while context, such as storage area or container is not necessarily distinctive for each category. While grain can be consumed as either human food or fodder, depending on the particular needs of a given society, chaff is less suitable for human consumption and more appropriate for other uses, one of which is fodder. Archaeobotanical assemblages from two Late Neolithic sites in northern Greece are dominated by glume-wheat chaff, often in association with fig seeds. This material may well represent the remains of dung, but it was not known if the cereal component was eaten by livestock or mixed with the dung to form dung cakes. The paper presents the results of an experiment involving the feeding of einkorn grain and chaff (whole and pounded spikelets) and figs to goats to investigate the effect of livestock digestion on plant material. The implications of this work for the interpretation of archaeobotanical assemblages that may derive from animal dung are considered using the Greek Neolithic assemblages
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Author:		 Soultana Maria Valamoti
Michael Charles
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Year of Publication:		 2005
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Late Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)
Glumewheat Chaff (Auto Detected Subject)
Cereal (Auto Detected Subject)
Greek Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)
Seeds (Auto Detected Subject)
Charred Plant Remains (Auto Detected Subject)
Chaff (Auto Detected Subject)
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Created Date:		 31 Jul 2007