Yvette van Wijk

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How far back are you going in this project?Are you working with the Western European hominids as well as modern humans?

The earliest modern humans as proposed in the southern Cape is what I am fascinated by, and how human-plant synergistic relationships and co-evolution might have played a vital part in...

12 April 2017 9,510 1 View

Which Similarity indices or measurements should I use?

I have 75 archaeological sites (not identical in size or shape or number of species but all the same/similar vegetation type). An Excel spreadsheet contains presence and absence data for each site...

21 January 2016 8,204 3 View

How far back would humans have been modifying landscape and vegetation patterns by transporting seeds of foods and medicines etc.?

Particularly with regard to humans migrating out of Africa and perhaps transporting useful plants with them which then establish elsewhere along early routes. It seems that there is a global...

20 June 2014 6,599 4 View

What vegetation is associated with archaeological sites before the onset of agriculture?

Either micro-or macro-botanical research or ethnographic research re. plants used by both past inhabitants of sites and their modern descendants.

30 April 2014 8,582 4 View

Has anyone done any ethnobotany work in your project?

Are there any publications about ethnobotany or archaeobotany? Thanks, Yvette

01 January 1970 2,882 16 View