Research & fieldwork blog
First field season of new Leverhulme project completed!
The Leverhulme Trust funded project "Co-Evolution of Social and Agricultural Practices at the Dawn of Farming" started at the Oxford School of Archaeology in December 2021 and we already completed our first field season in Israel. We followed up on the work done in context of the MSCA funded NICHE project, which was interrupted by the pandemic. This year we surveyed more wild cereal stands, measured functional traits of annual plants that grow alongside wild cereals but also in arable fields, conducted some small-scale harvesting experiments, and collected wild cereal grains for more isotopic analyses.
...so please follow this new project to stay tuned and find out more about our work and current & future research!
The photos show emmer and barley stands around Kahal and Khorazim near the Sea of Galilee, where we surveyed this year (photos by A. Weide).
If you want to find out more about the work we are doing in Israel, including recent outputs, please see this Twitter thread about our latest paper in Nature Plants:
