There are 🍎 seeds of at least 80 apples (estimated number) in one hand (just from one sample - 217 liters of sediment).

Prunus from Pandjakent

Wonderful wallpaintings from 7th to 8th century AD on plaster. Inside of one of the houses in ancient Panjakent, built with unburnt mudbricks. Now in the museum.

Highly Accesed Papers in #AgronomyMDPI ✍️#Pistachio (Pistachio vera) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia by Basira Mir-Makhamad et al. 🔓Available for reading: mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/8…

Today is our second day in Kyrgyzstan. New collaborations, new sites, and new data. FEDD explores new sites, gets new data, and builds new collaborations.

We are excited to kick start the new year at @MPI_SHH with guest lectures by Claudia Chang and Perry Tourtelotte, hybrid format, dm if you would like to join via zoom! All welcome

Yearly botany walk at the Botanic Garden in Jena led by @robertnspengler talking about trees, seed dispersal and all other fun facts about plants!

A nice example of explosive dehiscence, a seed dispersal mechanism

A little corner for Central Asian enthusiasts at the Botanic Garden in Jena

ICArEHB welcomes event COPA Co-evolution of Plants and Animals, bringing together archaeological and genetical information to link together different aspects of stories of domestication. University of Algarve, 26th - 29th of September

MAPSS team visits and records the Turkic ritual site as known #Tonyukuk stela and inscription near the Ulaanbaatar capital city, Mongolia. Early May. 2022. @MPI_SHH Arcadia Fund

A few shots of our annual SEM training at the Paleoethnobotany Lab at MPI-GEA Jena

#IWGP2022 the organizing committee gathering to reminisce and look back on the great conference that they hosted. #archaeobotany #paleoethnobotany #archaeology

FORUM: Insularity and early domestication: anthropogenic ecosystems as habitat islands doi.org/10.1111/oik.09… Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution @robertnspengler #OpenAccess #ecology #zooarchaeology #archaeobotany #agriculture #biogeography #evolution #plants #animals #speciation

Curious about the ancient spread of domesticated plants in Central Asia? Then let the leading experts in the field (@robertnspengler, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, @Rita_DalMar, Basira Mir-Makhamad, etc.) give you an update (with me as the historical linguistic sore thumb) 🍑🧩🌏🍚💬🔬🦠

What a wonderful week for our Ancient Mobile and Sedentary Interactions in Inner Asia roundtables, thank you all who joined and contributed to the discussions! A special thank to Sören Stark, Barbara Cerasetti, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute and Kai Kainuth for their fantastic presentations!

A new exciting paper from our group on how peaches apricots and plums became so widespread in the temperate world!

Super excited to share our latest research🥳🥳, now out in Science Advances. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… How milk tamed the Third Pole: research reveals a 3,500-year history of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau theconversation.com/how-milk-tamed… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Delighted to be in Berkeley for this: Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the #SilkRoad TCSRS events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/128…

Our new paper is out today, it brings more data about the dispersal and introduction of new varieties of fruits, annual crops, and spices along the ancient Silk Road in the first millennium CE. Thanks to my supervisor @robertnspengler link.springer.com/article/10.100…