FEDD

The Fruits of Eurasia: Domestication and Dispersal project.

[Basira Mir-Makhamad @basira_mir]

Our new paper is out today, it brings more data about the dispersal and introduction of new varieties of fruits, annual crops, and spices along the ancient Silk Road in the first millennium CE. Thanks to my supervisor @robertnspengler
https://t.co/64jmmiooGc

[Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @RTlalim]

Delighted to be in Berkeley for this:
Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the #SilkRoad @TCSRS_Berkeley https://t.co/GMuLSCyqMF

[Li Tang 唐莉 @tanglisunshine]

Super excited to share our latest research🥳🥳, now out in @ScienceAdvances. https://t.co/tsIpDg1PFW How milk tamed the Third Pole: research reveals a 3,500-year history of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau https://t.co/z97aQeNMq9 via @ConversationEDU

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

A new exciting paper from our group on how peaches apricots and plums became so widespread in the temperate world!

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

What a wonderful week for our Ancient Mobile and Sedentary Interactions in Inner Asia roundtables, thank you all who joined and contributed to the discussions! A special thank to Sören Stark, Barbara Cerasetti, @GiedreMotuzaite and Kai Kainuth for their fantastic presentations!

[Rasmus Bjørn @OsoDanes]

Curious about the ancient spread of domesticated plants in Central Asia? Then let the leading experts in the field (@robertnspengler, @GiedreMotuzaite, @Rita_DalMar, @basira_mir, etc.) give you an update (with me as the historical linguistic sore thumb) 🍑🧩🌏🍚💬🔬🦠

[Oikos @Oikos_Journal]

FORUM: Insularity and early domestication: anthropogenic ecosystems as habitat islands

https://t.co/iQqNgVu7FF
@NordicOikos @WileyEcolEvol @robertnspengler #OpenAccess #ecology #zooarchaeology #archaeobotany #agriculture #biogeography #evolution #plants #animals #speciation

[IWGP @IWGP_collective]

#IWGP2022 the organizing committee gathering to reminisce and look back on the great conference that they hosted. #archaeobotany #paleoethnobotany #archaeology

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

A few shots of our annual SEM training at the Paleoethnobotany Lab at @MPI_GEA

[ICArEHB @ICArEHB]

ICArEHB welcomes event COPA Co-evolution of Plants and Animals, bringing together archaeological and genetical information to link together different aspects of stories of domestication.
University of Algarve, 26th - 29th of September

[MAPSS @MAPSS_Project]

MAPSS team visits and records the Turkic ritual site as known #Tonyukuk stela and inscription near the Ulaanbaatar capital city, Mongolia. Early May. 2022. @MPI_SHH @ArcadiaFund

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

A little corner for Central Asian enthusiasts at the Botanic Garden in Jena

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

A nice example of explosive dehiscence, a seed dispersal mechanism

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

Yearly botany walk at the Botanic Garden in Jena led by @robertnspengler talking about trees, seed dispersal and all other fun facts about plants!

[FEDD @FEDD_MPI]

We are excited to kick start the new year at @MPI_SHH with guest lectures by Claudia Chang and Perry Tourtelotte, hybrid format, dm if you would like to join via zoom! All welcome

[Basira Mir-Makhamad @basira_mir]

Today is our second day in Kyrgyzstan. New collaborations, new sites, and new data. @FEDD_MPI explores new sites, gets new data, and builds new collaborations.

[Agronomy MDPI @Agronomy_Mdpi]

Highly Accesed Papers in #AgronomyMDPI

✍️#Pistachio (Pistachio vera) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia by Basira Mir-Makhamad et al.

🔓Available for reading: https://t.co/RDv1p1T2Tm

[Barbara Zach @BarbaraBotanik]

Wonderful wallpaintings from 7th to 8th century AD on plaster. Inside of one of the houses in ancient Panjakent, built with unburnt mudbricks. Now in the museum.

[Barbara Zach @BarbaraBotanik]

Prunus from Pandjakent

[Basira Mir-Makhamad @basira_mir]

There are 🍎 seeds of at least 80 apples (estimated number) in one hand (just from one sample - 217 liters of sediment).