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Unearthing millet in Bronze and Iron Age Croatia

New AMS 14C-dates have been tracking the arrival and spread of millet across prehistoric Europe. They suggest that millet arrived in the Bronze Age at a time when significant socio-economic changes were underway. This paper presents new radiocarbon dates from the region of central and eastern Croatia where grains of both broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica) were sampled from four prehistoric sites. The radiocarbon dating revealed a date of between the 16th to 12th century cal BCE for two of the sites, corresponding with stable isotope analyses in the region that indicate millet consumption occurred from the mid/late Bronze Age. Overall, the data from Croatia is still relatively sparse, so more information is needed to understand how, when and why millet became incorporated within the local agricultural food system

archaeology ; millet ; Europe prehistory ; Bronze Age ; archaeobotany ; zooarchaeology ; miliacin ; prehistoric agriculture

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