Resilience and Adaptation in Drylands. Identifying past water management practices for drought-resistant crops

Project Information

RAINDROPS

Grant agreement ID: 759800

DOI

10.3030/759800

Project closed

EC signature date 16 November 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 488 506,00

EU contribution

€ 1 488 506,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Spain

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

ORDP

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

On the verge of domestication: early use of C₄ plants in the Horn of Africa

Author(s): Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Laurie Nixon-Darcus, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Carla Lancelotti
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Issue 120(27), 2023, Page(s) e2300166120, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300166120

Sorghum and Finger Millet Cultivation during the Aksumite Period: Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Modelling and Microbotanical Analysis

Author(s): Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Alemseged Beldados, Stefano Biagetti, Francesca D’Agostini, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Yemane Meresa, Carla Lancelotti
Published in: Joural of Computer Applications in Archaeology, Issue 6(1), 2023, Page(s) 96–116, ISSN 2514-8362
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.132

Small-scale farming in drylands: New models for resilient practices of millet and sorghum cultivation

Author(s): Ruiz-Giralt Abel, Biagetti Stefano, Madella Marco,Lancelotti
Published in: PLoS ONE, Issue 18(2), 2023, Page(s) e0268120, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6501883

Pre‑Aksumite and Aksumite Agricultural Economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): First look at a 1000‑Year History

Author(s): Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Alemseged Beldados, Carla Lancelotti, A. Catherine D’Andrea
Published in: African Archaeological Review, 2024, ISSN 0263-0338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-024-09574-9

A dataset for assessing phytolith data for implementation of the FAIR data principles

Author(s): Celine Kerfant, Javier Ruiz-Pérez, Juan José García-Granero, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, Emma Karoune
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 479, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02296-8

Charring effects on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values on C4 plants: Inferences for archaeological investigations

Author(s): Alessandra Varalli, Francesca D'Agostini, Marco Madella, Girolamo Fiorentino, Carla Lancelotti
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 156, 2023, Page(s) 105821, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4366223

The Pre-Aksumite Period: indigenous origins and development in the Horn of Africa

Author(s): A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, Steven A. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, Habtamu Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Carla Lancelotti, Abebe Mengistu Taffere, Lucas M. Johnson
Published in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Issue 58:3, 2023, Page(s) 329-392, ISSN 0067-270X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2023.2236484

Understanding the Relationship between Water Availability and Biosilica Accumulation in Selected C4 Crop Leaves: An Experimental Approach

Author(s): Francesca D’Agostini, Vincent Vadez, Jana Kholova, Javier Ruiz-Pérez, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti
Published in: Plants, Issue 11(8), 2022, Page(s) 1019, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants11081019

The archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of rain-fed cultivation in arid and hyper-arid North Africa

Author(s): Carla Lancelotti, Stefano Biagetti, Andrea Zerboni, Donatella Usai, Marco Madella
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 93/370, 2019, Page(s) 1026-1039, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.109

Quantitative Analysis of Drought Management Strategies across Ethnographically-Researched African Societies: A Pilot Study

Author(s): Stefano Biagetti; Débora Zurro; Jonas Alcaina-Mateos; Eugenio Bortolini; Marco Madella
Published in: Land, Issue Vol 10, Iss 1062, 2021, Page(s) 1062, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land10101062

Burning questions: Experiments on the effects of charring on domestic and wild sorghum

Author(s): Alemseged Beldados; Abel Ruiz-Giralt
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 51, 2023, Page(s) 104170, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104170

No Rain, No Grain? Ethnoarchaeology of Sorghum and Millet Cultivation in Dryland Environments of Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia

Author(s): Biagetti Stefano, Ruiz-Giralt Abel, Madella Marco, Khalid Magzoub Mongeda, Meresa Yamane, Haile Gebreselassie Mulubrhan, Veesar Ghulam Mohiuddin, Alam Abro Tasleem, Chandio Amin & Carla Lancelotti
Published in: Ethnoarchaeology, Issue 13:1-2, 2021, Page(s) 80-104, ISSN 1944-2904
Publisher: Taylor & Francis online
DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2059994

Phytoliths as indicators of plant water availability: The case of millets cultivation in the Indus Valley civilization

Author(s): D'Agostini Francesca, Ruiz-Pérez Javier, Madella Marco, Vadez Vincent, Kholova Jana, Lancelotti Carla
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Issue 309, 2023, Page(s) 104783, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104783

Mapping Food Production in Hyper-Arid and Arid Saharan Africa in the Holocene—A View from the Present

Author(s): Carla Lancelotti, Stefano Biagetti
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 4/2, 2021, Page(s) 13, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat4020013

Human-woodland interactions during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods in northeastern Tigray, Ethiopia: insights from the wood charcoal analyses from Mezber and Ona Adi

Author(s): Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Charlène Bouchaud, Aurélie Salavert, Carla Lancelotti, A. Catherine D’Andrea
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 30, 2021, Page(s) 713–728, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00825-2

Pre-Aksumite plant husbandry in the Horn of Africa

Author(s): Alemseged Beldados; Abel Ruiz-Giralt; Carla Lancelotti; Yemane Meresa; A. Catherine D'Andrea
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 635-654, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00949-7

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Long-term resilience of cultivation systems in Tigrai (Ethiopia): an integrated approach combining archaeobotany, ethnoarchaeology and ecological modelling

Author(s): Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
Published in: Long-term resilience of cultivation systems in Tigrai (Ethiopia): an integrated approach combining archaeobotany, ethnoarchaeology and ecological modelling, 2023
Publisher: TDX
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11190117

Phytoliths as proxies for plant water availability.An experimental approach on selected C₄ species and its archaeological application in drylands

Author(s): d'Agostini, Francesca
Published in: Phytoliths as proxies for plant water availability.An experimental approach on selected C species and its archaeological application in drylands, 2022
Publisher: Portal HAL theses