Workshop "Millet and what else? The wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe"
Nov 27, 2019 to Nov 28, 2019
International workshop:
“Millet and what else? The wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe”
27-28 November 2019
Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel, Germany
Within the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 at Kiel University, the ‘Millet Dating Programme’ (2017-2019) produced direct radiocarbon dates on over a hundred grains of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) from archaeological sites across Europe. The results demonstrate that millet cultivation began during the Middle and Late Bronze Age, at slightly different times in different parts of Europe (Filipović et al. in prep.) and earliest in Ukraine (Dal Corso et al. in prep.). Building upon the now available solid chronological basis, we want to explore how the (beginning of) full cultivation of millet across Europe correlates with changes and new tendencies in economy and lifestyle recognised from the archaeological record. Moving beyond the When?, we want to investigate the How? and Why? of the integration of millet into Bronze Age agrarian systems.
This workshop will present and discuss:
- Aspects of subsistence economy in different regions of Europe in the Middle-Late Bronze Age, and the changes in it that took place when millet became one of the staple crops.
- Ethnographic and experimental insights into millet cropping systems, from sowing to consumption, including aspects such as the required time/labour and yield-improvement measures.
- New scientific methods that track the spread, cultivation or consumption of millet, and their integration with conventional approaches.
Contact:
Dragana Filipović
d.filipovic@ufg.uni-kiel.de
Confirmed speakers and talks:
László Bartosiewicz
Novelties in animal herding and consumption in Bronze Age Europe Abstract
Blandine Courel
Miliacin in palaeosoils and sediments, a powerful biomarker for telling stories about broomcorn millet Abstract
Oliver Craig
Towards the quantification of millet in ancient diets using stable isotopes
Eiko Endo
Chasing Chinese millets in Ukraine using seed impressions in pottery Abstract
Stefania Grando
Proso millet: cultivation, agronomic practices, and uses Abstract
Mária Hajnalová
Timing the introduction of Panicum miliaceum to the Middle Danube Region – dual evidence Abstract
Monika Hellmund
On the "early" evidence of broomcorn millet in central Germany, primarily Saxony-Anhalt Abstract
Taylor Hermes
Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia Abstract
Helmut Kroll
Weedy millets and millet weeds
Marco Madella
Looking away from Europe: A wider perspective on millets in dry lands Abstract
Elena Marinova
Millets in Bulgaria – diachronic overview of their role in the subsistence and critical review of the archaeological finds Abstract
Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė
Millet cultivation in the Belarus and the Baltic States Abstract
Aldona Mueller-Bieniek
The Bronze Age in Poland - archaeological and environmental traces of subsistence strategies Abstract
Galyna Pashkevych
Ukrainian dishes from millet Abstract
Adéla Pokorná
Bronze Age agricultural changes in the Czech Republic Abstract
Mauro Rottoli
The successful spread of millets in Northern Italy Abstract
Edward Standall
Molecular and isotopic identification of millet in prehistoric pottery: New results from Bruszczewo, Poland Abstract
Hans-Peter Stika
The start of millet cultivation in Iberia Abstract
Astrid Stobbe
Archaeobotany in Romania – investigations in the Late Bronze Age fortification Corneşti-Iarcuri Abstract
Amy Styring
Detecting the manuring of millet in the past Abstract
Naomi Sykes
Chicken feed: tracking the introduction and incorporation of new plants and animals Abstract
Andrés Teira-Brión
Traditional millet growing in NW Iberia: from the ethnographic insights to the archaeobotanical implications Abstract
Tjaša Tolar
Before and after millet in Slovenia, south of the Alps to the Balkans Abstract
Françoise Toulemonde & Julian Wiethold
Millets in Bronze Age agriculture and food consumption in Northeastern France Abstract
Keynote lecture:
Anthony Harding
Change in the later second millennium BC: plants, pots, and people Abstract
Workshop Organisers:
Dragana Filipović
Marta Dal Corso
Wiebke Kirleis
Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, CAU Kiel
