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Jan 1, 2021 · To date, the oldest remains of sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum) have been found at Harappan sites in the Indus Valley (2500 to 2000 BCE), but charred and desiccated seeds have also been sporadically recovered at sites in the Near East since the late third millennium BCE (86, 87).
- Ashley Scott, Ashley Scott, Robert C. Power, Robert C. Power, Victoria Altmann-Wendling, Michal Artz...
- 10.1073/pnas.2014956117
- 2021
- 2021/01/01
It has become clear that the high-altitude (>3500 masl) environments played a vital role in the process of the food globalisation, particularly in the 2nd millennium bce, and in fixing multiple adaptive traits (in barley and millet) that were carried down and contributed to the lowland system in the 1st millennium bce (Liu et al., 2017 ...
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The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age . The Ancient Near Eastern cultures are well within the historical era: The first half of the millennium is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
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Jan 10, 2022 · While millet may have been a minor crop in second millennium BCE Mesopotamia, its paucity in the long-term archaeobotanical record is most likely the result of the fragility of millet grains...
Lipid residue analysis of two late third and early second millennium bce Indus black slipped wares from Hili in the UAE provides evidence for the transport of a plant-derived oil (Suryanarayan et al. 2022). The lipid signatures indicate a seed oil derived from the likes of sesame or flax, with sesame being the more likely candidate.
