Sentence examples for wild cereals from inspiring English sources

Wild cereals and grasses point to steppe and parkland exploitation, and woody plants indicate use of woodlands.

The mosaic ecology of the Late Pleistocene Levant has been referred to by many authors investigating Epipaleolithic use of wild cereals as a prelude to cultivation, but it has rarely been the focus of studies investigating hunter gatherer adaptations and diverse wild plant collection strategies.

But a new study hints that wild cereals were part of the human diet more than 100,000 years ago.

People in this region who had come to depend on gathering wild cereals found this resource diminishing at the end of the last Ice Age, as summers became longer and hotter and aridity increased.

Recent excavations in those areas have suggested that hunter-gatherers first began to gather and plant seeds from wild cereals and legumes, such as wheat, barley, and lentils, as early as 13,000 years ago.

At the site of Gilgal 1, for example, near Jericho in the West Bank, excavators have found nearly 300,000 grains of wild barley and 120,000 grains of wild oats in a stone building dated to 11,400 years ago; smaller amounts of wild cereals have also been found at early villages in Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey.

People had to learn how to gather and process wild cereal grains before they began cultivating them deliberately, around 10,000 years ago.Exactly when cereal grains first became part of the human diet is uncertain.

For example, no one knew when and how humans began processing and cooking wild cereal grains.

Seed size increase in wild cereal species has been linked to increased plant management and cultivation [ 2].

For example, Nevo and Chen (2010 and references therein) review studies identifying traits related to drought and salinity stress from multiple wild cereal species.

monococcum) is normally only one-grained, but archaeobotanical evidence indicates the presence of one of these two grained forms as a wild cereal from the late Pleistocene in Syria (Hillman, 2000; Willcox, 2002, 2005), and later as a domesticated cereal in Syria, Turkey and into Neolithic Europe (Kreuz and Boenke, 2002).