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Follow the links below to catalogues of the Institute's plant reference collections.
Seed Collections
Seed Collections at the institute are numerous, and constantly expanding. They have an emphasis on the Old World, especially Eurasia,
- Near Eastern seed collection
- European seed collection (2536 accessions)
- Miscellaneous Old World and teaching seed collection (1216+ accessions)
- Pulse collections
- Millets collection
- British Cleared Leaf collection
- Indo-Pacific Tubers (charred) and Fruits
- European tubers (charred) collection
- Parenchyma thin section slides collection
Phytoliths: old world reference collection. Version 1.2
- Pollen: Northwest Europe
Databases
It is hoped in the future to incorporate links to online databases of archaeobotanical data from a range of parts of the Old World that have been or are under construction at the IoA.
- Neolithic Europe and the Near East (by Sue Colledge).
see also the related book, "The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe" (eds. S. Colledge & J. Conolly)
and its on-line bibliography. - Egyptian (and Nubian) archaeobotany (by Mary Anne Murray)
- South Asian archaeobotany (by Dorian Fuller) [currently available: preliminary bibliography ]
- Sahara, North Africa and West Africa (by Ruth Pelling)
- Irish Bronze Age archaeobotany (by Meriel McClatchie)
Other archaeobotanical databases (external)
Helmut Kroll's Archaeobotanical Bibliography index, search by site and species as well as author. Predominantly Old World
Eastern Mediterranean archaeobotanical database at Tubingen (Simon Riehl et al.)
George Willcox's webpages: data and information on archaeobotany and early agriculture in the Near Eastincluding an online Seed Atlas for the Near East