Storage of crops during the fourth and third millennia b.c. at the settlement mound of Tell Brak, northeast Syria

摘要: Excavations at Tell Brak in northeast Syria have uncovered two monumental non-domestic structures from the fourth and third millennia b.c. respectively, containing evidence for large-scale supra-household economic organisation. The charred plant remains these include glume wheat, two-row hulled barley flax, all found storage contexts. In millennium (the late Chalcolithic), grain flax seeds been contexts, as well wheat chaff, indicating importance of this by-product crop processing. early Bronze Age), is only a definite context, that practices may changed by time focused on much narrower range crops to be held communal storage.