Members of the ‘DarkAegean’ project (I+D project ‘The agricultural economy of the Aegean ‘Dark Ages’ through machine learning-powered 3D cereal grain morphometrics, PID2022-139907NB-I00) have been carrying out experimental charring of cereal grains collected after harvesting the experimental cultivation fields at Thermi, Thessalonikis, in Greece. The fields were tended at ELGO-DEMETER under the supervision of Dr…
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PhD candidate Alexandra Kriti and Dr. Alexandra Livarda will participate in the TEFRA project’s event “Experimental approaches in archaeology: The funerary practice of cremation” (01-02/04/23), contributing to the experimental pyres through the lens of archaeobotany. More specifically, they will conduct experimental charring of contemporary grown cereals. Their aim is to investigate the impact of charring on the morphological characteristics of fresh cereal…
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