Multi-proxy investigation of a unique Bronze Age deposit of broomcorn millet and human remains at a bog site in Bohemia, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F25%3A00639884" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/25:00639884 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985912:_____/25:00639884 RIV/00216208:11310/25:10500202 RIV/60076658:12310/25:43911116 RIV/00216208:11620/25:10500202 and 2 more
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225002411" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225002411</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109898" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109898</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Multi-proxy investigation of a unique Bronze Age deposit of broomcorn millet and human remains at a bog site in Bohemia, Czech Republic
Original language description
The deposition of broomcorn millet plants (Panicum miliaceum), found in the wetland of the Zahájí site in the Czech Republic, belongs to the oldest millet findings in Central Europe. Its appearance in a newly formed shallow lake in a small brook valley located in the populated lowland area was accompanied by a curious finding of a human fingernail (both dated ca. 1400-1300 BC), their joint presence in the same layer does not appear accidental. Although a wealth of contextual information has been gleaned from multi-proxy investigations (such as sediment lithostratigraphy, geo and water chemistry, pollen, plant macrofossils, aquatic invertebrae and organic residua analyses, and aDNA of millet and the fingernail), archaeological interpretation of the find is highly challenging having no known analogies in the European/wider context so far. We present some possible scenarios of what might have happened, including certain forms of ritual behaviour or reverence for millet, a crop that has only recently spread in central Europe around the mid-2nd millennium BC following its rapid westward migration from southeastern Asia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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