Moving plants: introduction to the special issue on crop diffusion across the Middle East and Mediterranean in the 1st millennium ce

Daniel Fuks; Frijda Schmidt; Neal Payne

doi:10.1007/s00334-025-01072-5

Moving plants: introduction to the special issue on crop diffusion across the Middle East and Mediterranean in the 1st millennium ce

Daniel Fuks
, Frijda Schmidt
, Neal Payne

Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East

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The “Moving Plants” special issue of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany presents a collection of papers on the archaeobotanical and historical evidence for 1st millennium ce crop diffusion across the Middle East and Mediterranean. Adopting a region-by-region approach, the papers offer the most extensive collection of evidence for Roman Agricultural Diffusion (RAD) and the Islamic Green Revolution (IGR). Together, they indicate the unprecedented transformations to agrobiodiversity occurring during the “long” first millennium, while also enabling more nuanced understandings of RAD, the IGR and the trajectories of dozens of crop plants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-025-01072-5
State	Published - 1 Jan 2026

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Keywords

1st millennium CE
Agriculture
Crop history
Islamic Green Revolution (IGR)
Roman Agricultural Diffusion (RAD)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Archaeology
Plant Science
Paleontology

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