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Pharmaceutical Terminology in Ancient and Medieval Time – andrachne, chrysocolla and Others.
Ancient and medieval pharmacological and medical texts contain a substantial amount of plant and mineral names. In some cases, the identification is straightforward. But for the majority of the data, we are unable to identify these ingredients with high certainty. In this paper, we discuss a selection of plant and... -
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An ancient Mesopotamian herbal.
Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to be important to healthcare. They vary greatly in their underlying beliefs, but almost all share the use of herbal medicines as a central practice. Ancient Mesopotamia – the area of modern-day Iraq and adjoining regions – offers a special opportunity to study...Böck, Barbara ; Ghazanfar, Shahina A. ; Nesbitt, Mark
Mesopotamia, Identification, Herbal medicine, Assyria, Herbals, Materia medica, Traditional medicines, Medicinal plants, and Babylonia
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Book chapter
Cereals.
Nesbitt, Mark
Archaeobotany, Cereals, Plant remains, and Archaeology of food
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Conference paper (published)
Re-evaluating Student Treatments of Barkcloth Artefacts from the Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lennard, Frances ; Tamura, Misa ; Nesbitt, Mark
Economic botany, Treatment re-evaluation, Storage, Documentation, Barkcloth, Tapa, and Textile conservation education
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Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940.
Exchange of duplicate specimens was an important element of the relationship between metropolitan and regional museums in the period 1870–1940. Evidence of transfers of botanical museum objects such as economic botany specimens is explored for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and six museums outside the capital: Cambridge University Botanical Museum,... -
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Chapter 6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica.
Nesbitt, Mark
Botanists, 19th century, Jamaica, and Botany
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Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication.
Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequences from 6,000- and 3,300-year-old seeds... -
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Genome sequencing of up to 6,000-yr-old Citrullus seeds reveals use of a bitter-fleshed species prior to watermelon domestication.
Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequences from 6,000- and 3,300-yr-old seeds... -
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Reconnecting the Cinchona (Rubiaceae) collections of the “Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú” (1777-1816).
During the “Real Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú”, 1777-1816, Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1816), José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), Juan José Tafalla Navascués (1755-1811) and Juan Agustín Manzanilla (fl. 1793-1816) collected economically important specimens of anti-malarial cinchona bark (Cinchona spp.). In the 230 years since, these specimens have been dispersed...Walker, Kim ; García Guillén, Esther ; Allasi Canales, Nataly ; Medina, Leopoldo ; Driver, Felix …
Museum specimens, Pharmacy, Botany, Ruiz & Pavón Expedition, Cinchona, History, and Medicine
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Enviados directo a Londres: objetos colombianos en la Colección de Botánica Económica del Real Jardín Botánico de Kew.
Este artículo es el resultado de una valoración de los objetos colombianos en la Colección de Botánica Económica del Real Jardín Botánico de Kew. Hace parte del proyecto ColPlantA, encargado de documentar la colección colombiana y de producir un portal de búsqueda sobre la flora colombiana. Para este artículo se... -
Magazine article
Repurposing Economic Botany for the Twenty-first Century.
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Book
Festive flora.
Festive Flora is a celebration of the plants integral to religious, cultural and national festivities around the world, used as decoration in wreaths, garlands and shrines, for their scent, and in festive recipes. 40 botanical paintings of this merry group are gorgeously reproduced from Kew’s Library and Archives, one of...Nesbitt, Mark ; White, Lydia
Cultural heritage, Decoration, Recipes, Plants in religion, Botanical art, and Festivals
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A maloca entre artefatos e plantas : guia da coleção Rio Negro de Richard Spruce em Londres.
A publicação é resultado das atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito do projeto de repatriação digital de coleções bioculturais, isto é, coleções de objetos feitos com matérias-primas provenientes de plantas e animais, que foram coletados na Amazônia brasileira, no passado, e que hoje se encontram guardados em instituições na Europa. O guia... -
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World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Plants are essential to human wellbeing, supporting important ecosystem services that are critical components of Natural Capital. They supply food, medicine, fibre, fuel and building materials, and provide a broad spectrum of benefits to society, offering vital solutions to some of the world’s major challenges, including bioenergy, human and animal...Diazgranados, Mauricio ; Allkin, Bob ; Black, Nicholas ; Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo ; Canteiro, Cátia …