DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation DOI Creative Commons
Margot Besseiche, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski

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Peer Community Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 5

Опубликована: Май 22, 2025

The date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera L.) has been a cornerstone of oasis agrosystems in West Asia and North Africa for millennia, yet the timeline processes its domestication spread remain poorly documented. Archaeobotanical remains provide critical insights into cultivation history, but no comprehensive review or dedicated platform currently exists to synthesize analyze these data. To address this gap, we conducted an extensive literature developed DateBack https://cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback ), digital open-access repository archaeobotanical (L.) spp. In first version, records macroremains (e.g., seeds, fruits, stems, petioles) from prehistoric Late Antiquity contexts Southwest South Asia. We assembled 154 entries 110 archaeological sites across 123 references, along with separate table 74 radiocarbon-dated 20 sites, refining chronological assessments. Most comprise charred seeds (58.4%), smaller proportion vegetative parts desiccated remains. Our findings highlight regional disparities distribution remains, concentration Levant Gulf region, while Saudi Arabia southern Iran are underrepresented. There also data reliability, particularly dating resolution, which complicate reconstruction history. evidence shows that earliest securely dated macro-botanical indicating consumption, appear region around 5000 BCE, emerges later, Mesopotamia northern 4 th millennium then eastern Indus Valley 3 rd BCE. presents challenges, numerous presumed early finds significant uncertainties, secure only appearing by late 2 nd as northwestern Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, it is not attested until 1 st By compiling standardizing data, facilitates advanced spatiotemporal analyses history supports additional archaeobotany-based research including ancient DNA studies. Moreover, dynamic, scalable, collaborative, enhancing integration refinement, future expansions planned include periods (Islamic era beyond), geographic regions (North Africa), new types evidence, such plant microremains iconography.

Язык: Английский

DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation DOI Creative Commons
Margot Besseiche, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski

и другие.

Peer Community Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 5

Опубликована: Май 22, 2025

The date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera L.) has been a cornerstone of oasis agrosystems in West Asia and North Africa for millennia, yet the timeline processes its domestication spread remain poorly documented. Archaeobotanical remains provide critical insights into cultivation history, but no comprehensive review or dedicated platform currently exists to synthesize analyze these data. To address this gap, we conducted an extensive literature developed DateBack https://cloudapps.france-bioinformatique.fr/dateback ), digital open-access repository archaeobotanical (L.) spp. In first version, records macroremains (e.g., seeds, fruits, stems, petioles) from prehistoric Late Antiquity contexts Southwest South Asia. We assembled 154 entries 110 archaeological sites across 123 references, along with separate table 74 radiocarbon-dated 20 sites, refining chronological assessments. Most comprise charred seeds (58.4%), smaller proportion vegetative parts desiccated remains. Our findings highlight regional disparities distribution remains, concentration Levant Gulf region, while Saudi Arabia southern Iran are underrepresented. There also data reliability, particularly dating resolution, which complicate reconstruction history. evidence shows that earliest securely dated macro-botanical indicating consumption, appear region around 5000 BCE, emerges later, Mesopotamia northern 4 th millennium then eastern Indus Valley 3 rd BCE. presents challenges, numerous presumed early finds significant uncertainties, secure only appearing by late 2 nd as northwestern Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, it is not attested until 1 st By compiling standardizing data, facilitates advanced spatiotemporal analyses history supports additional archaeobotany-based research including ancient DNA studies. Moreover, dynamic, scalable, collaborative, enhancing integration refinement, future expansions planned include periods (Islamic era beyond), geographic regions (North Africa), new types evidence, such plant microremains iconography.

Язык: Английский

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