EvoSAP project

This 36-months Leverhulme Trust project (2021-2024, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford) started in December 2021 and builds on the outcomes of the NICHE project.

The project’s aim is to study how the interplay of social and agricultural factors drove the evolution of key features of the world’s oldest farming communities in southwest Asia: increasingly autonomous households, changing property rights, and the intensification of plant management practices. The main objectives are to create a high-resolution record of changing cultivation practices over time, and to correlate this record with archaeological proxy data for social and economic change: changing household organisation, morphological markers for crop domestication, subsistence-related labour investments, food sharing and ownership principles.

Principal investigator (Leverhulme Trust ECF grant holder)

Alexander Weide (University of Oxford)

E-mail: alexander.weide@arch.ox.ac.uk

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0358-9995

Fellowship Supervisor

Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)

Associated scientists and collaborators in the UK

Mike Charles (University of Oxford)

John G. Hodgson (University of Sheffield)

Müge Ergun (University of Oxford)

Jade Whitlam (University of Oxford)

Carolyne Douché (University of Oxford)

International collaborators

Guy Dovrat (Agricultural Research Organization, Ramat Yishay)

Liat Hadar (Ramat Hanadiv Nature Park)

Yoel Melamed (Bar-Ilan University of Ramat Gan)

Margareta Tengberg (Musem national d'histoire naturelle, Paris)

Piona Pichon (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona)

Juan José Ibáñez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona)