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2018. Ukraine as the crossroad for Agricultural dispersal In Eurasia

Eiko Endo, Alexander Yanevich · · 2 min read
Abstract
This announcement presents an international workshop (Kyiv, 31 August 2018) focused on Ukraine’s role as a key corridor in the dispersal of agriculture across Eurasia. It summarizes interim results of a Japanese–Ukrainian project applying the Replica-SEM method to identify cereal imprints on Neolithic–Bronze Age ceramics from Right-Bank Ukraine, including large-scale sampling across 53 sites. The program frames agricultural transmission as bidirectional East–West movement and outlines planned discussions on archaeobotanical datasets, radiocarbon chronology, and methodological advances.
Keywords
archaeobotany agricultural dispersal Ukraine Replica-SEM Neolithic Chalcolithic Trypillia culture cereal imprints

A 2018 Kyiv workshop convened archaeobotanists and archaeologists to reassess when and how cereals spread through Ukraine—one of Eurasia’s major agricultural crossroads. Drawing on Replica-SEM analyses of plant imprints on prehistoric ceramics, the meeting aimed to integrate new datasets with improved chronology and method development.

 

Ukraine as the crossroad for Agricultural dispersal In Eurasia

International Workshop

Date: August 31, 2018
Venue of the workshop: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University  Kyiv, Ukraine

The workshop is dedicated to the previous results of the Japanese-Ukrainian project “Аrchaeobotanical research of the cultural plants imprints on the Neolithic-Chalcolithic ceramic of Right-bank Ukraine using Replica-SEM method” Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, The Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University Japan, 2016—2018).
Aims and objectives of the workshop. We have conducted an archaeobotanical research using Replica-SEM method in Ukraine
since 2016. The purpose of this project is to reexamine the timing of appearance and the diffusion process of cereals in Ukraine with  highly reliable evidences.  Recent developments of archaeobotany in China have revealed the cultivation of millet in North-Eastern part of China by 10000 BP. Therefore, we should discuss the diffusion of Eurasian agriculture as bi-directional East-West movements, and Ukraine is one of the crossroads of agriculture across Eurasia.

Under the implement of the Project ceramic complexes of the 53 Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze age sites have been studied since 2016. We have investigated more than 16,000 ceramic fragments, and taken 354 replicas of imprints for
identification of cultural plants. In the final year of our project, we would like to present results of our research, to evaluate and discuss further steps.

Opening address: Dr. Galina Pashkevich (IA NASU) “Archaeobotany in Ukraine”

Dr. Giedre Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute (Lithuanian Institute of History) “The archaeobotanical research in Ukraine, and the spread of agriculture across Eurasia”

Dr. Dmytro Gaskevych (IA NASU) “Problems in radiocarbon chronology of the Neolithic and Eneolithic time in Ukraine”

Dr. Mykhailo Videiko (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University) “Agriculture in Trypillian culture”

Dr. Wiebke Kirleis, Dr. Marta Dal Corso (Kiel University) "New methodological approaches on plant temper in daub&quot.

Ms. Marie Videiko (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University) “Imprints of cereals on Trypillia daubs”

Dr. Eiko Endo (COLS) “A new dataset of cereals in Ukraine, using Replica-SEM method”

Dr. Mindaugas Grikpedis (Vilnius University) “The archaeobotanical research in Belarus”

Dr. Hiroo Nasu (Okayama University of Science) “Millet domestication and dispersal in East

Workshop organizer and Secretariat:

Dr. Eiko ENDO,

Dr. Alexander Yanevich: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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