NDLI: 3000 years of agriculture in a valley of the High Himalayas

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Author	Knörzer, Karl Heinz
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	3000 years of agriculture were investigated in the valley of the Jhong river situated north of the main chain of the Himalayas in western Nepal at 3000–4000 m asl. During excavations carried out by the Institute for Prehistory of the University of Cologne (part of the DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm „Siedlungen und Staatenbildungen im tibetischen Himalaya”) in collaboration with the Nepal Department of Archaeology, more than 300 samples with plant remains were collected, dating from 1000 cal. B.C. up to today. Palaeoethnobotanical research was accompanied by investigations of today's methods of local agriculture and of the recent vegetation. Immigrants —perhaps from the Tibetan Plain—settled in the Jhong valley at the beginning of the first millennium B.C. Six cultivated taxa were already present in the first occupation period: probably two harvests per year were possible at this time as they still are today. During the following five archaeological periods, ten new cultivated taxa were found. In a burial cave of the second prehistoric period, fruits and seeds imported from the subtropical lowlands were found among the grave goods. From the more than 100 plant taxa identified in the botanical samples, more than 50 also occur in Europe.
Starting Page	219
Ending Page	222
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09396314
Journal	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16176278
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2000-01-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Macrofossils 1000 cal. B.C. to 1800 cal. A.D. High Himalayas Agriculture Synanthropic plants Geology Anthropology/Archaeometry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Archeology (arts and humanities) Paleontology

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