Paleoethnobotanical Study Of Ancient Food Crops And The Environmental Context In Northeast Africa, Bcad

Archaeobotanical Investigation Was Conducted On ATotal Of Thirty Two Thousand n=, Pot Fragments, Baked Clay And Fired Clay Collected From Different Sites Belonging To Five Cultural Groups In Eastern SudanThe Cultural Groups Include Amm Adam, Butana, Gash, Jebel Mokram, And HagizSoil Samples Kilos Were Also Analyzed From Various Excavation Spots At Mahal Teglinos, AMajor Site That Rendered Data On Butana, Gash, Jebel Mokram And Hagiz GroupsThe Objective Of The Study Was To Reconstruct Ancient Food Systems Of The Prehistoric Inhabitants Of ARegion Of Northeast Africa And Its Environmental MilieuThe Result Of The Study Demonstrated The Subsistence Bases Of The Inhabitants From Ca, B.cTo A.dCrops Like The Small Seededmillets setaria Sp., Eleusine Sp., Paspalum Sp., Echinochloa Sp., Pennisetum Sp., Sorghum Verticilliflorum, Sorghum Bicolor Bicolor, Hordeum Sp., Triticum Monococcumdicoccum, And Seeds And Fruit Stones vigna Unguiculata, Grewia Bicolor Juss., Ziziphus Spmainly Ziziphus Spina Christi And Celtis Integrifolia Were Cultivated For Consumption During This PeriodThe Study Has Also Shed New Light On The Domestication History Of Sorghum BicolorThe Wild Sorghum, Sorghum Bicolor Verticilliflorum And Its Cultivated Variety, Sorghum Bicolor Were Simultaneously Exploited By The Jebel Mokram Group People Between , B.cAnd , B.cOne Of The Oldest Domesticated Morphotype Of Sorghum Bicolor, I.eAn Intermediary Phase Between The Wild Progenitor And Its Domesticated Variety Was Revealed By The Same InvestigationMorphological Change That Has Occurred While The Species Was Evolving From Wild To Cultivated Is Measured Using ALeica Qwin Software.
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