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PREFERENCE FOR MILLET AND BROAD BEAN? ARCHAEOBOTANICAL EVIDENCE FROM BRONZE AND IRON AGE CROATIA (CA. 2400 TO 100 CAL BC)

The Bronze and Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin see major changes in society with the development of proto-urban centres, centralisation of authority, social hierarchy and the intensification of trade. However, due to limited archaeobotanical research in the region questions on how agriculture developed in the face of these socio-economic changes is less clear. In Croatia, archaeobotanical evidence has begun to suggest that this period saw a shift in the main crops cultivated by the late Bronze Age, with a particular preference for broomcorn millet and broad bean. The archaeobotanical data from Croatia is presented here and examined within the context of the archaeological evidence of the Carpathian Basin to explore why broomcorn millet and broad bean may have become a popular choice at this time.

bronze age; iron age; archaeobotany; agriculture; landscape changes

Projekt HRZZ - IP-11-2013-3700 Strategic use of landscape/Strateško korištenje prostora