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Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland: an archaeobotanical perspective

Abstract:
Ireland has often been seen as marginal in the spread of the Neolithic and of early farming throughout Europe, in part due to the paucity of available data. By integrating and analysing a wealth of evidence from unpublished reports, a much more detailed picture of early arable agriculture has emerged. The improved chronological resolution reveals changing patterns in the exploitation of different plant species during the course of the Neolithic that belie simplistic notions of a steady intensification in farming, juxtaposed with a concomitant decline in foraging. It is possible that here, as in other areas of Europe, cereal cultivation became less important in the later Neolithic.
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10.15184/aqy.2015.212

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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
School of Archaeology
Sub department:
Archaeology Institute
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
School of Archaeology
Sub department:
Archaeology Institute
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Cambridge University Press
Journal:
Antiquity More from this journal
Volume:
90
Issue:
350
Pages:
302-318
Publication date:
2016-04-06
Acceptance date:
2015-02-20
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1745-1744 and 0003-598X


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2016-11-10

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