Research on agricultural origins in southwest Asia revealed a protracted process of developing plant management systems in the early Holocene that eventually led to the selection of domestication traits among a suite of seed crops. While the temporal and geographic spread of these developments is relatively clear, the specific sets of management practices and related (agro-)ecological conditions that characterised early plant...

The so-called Triticoid-type grains are known from several prehistoric sites in southwest Asia and their identification has long been unclear. They resemble the grains of wheats and researchers suggested they may represent an extinct Triticeae species, possibly closely related to wild crop progenitors. In this study we identify the Triticoid-type grains as Heteranthelium piliferum (Banks & Sol.) Hochst. and describe the key id...