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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Quaternary International

ISSN

1040-6182

e-ISSN

1873-4553

Svazek periodika

741

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

15 August

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

109898

Kód UT WoS článku

001531312400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105009266037