In this volume, deriving from two conferences, the first on "Interpreting Transformations of Landscapes and People in Late Antiquity" took place in Rome on 10-11 October and the second conference was held in Leicester (UK) on 5 November 2016, nineteen leading European archaeolog…
'From Mine to Microscope' is a collection of papers covering the development of technology from the earliest times.
By means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices of food plants.
These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm. The vast majority of archaeological da…