A team of junior researchers from Frobenius Institute attended the Millet workshop on introduction to Archaeobotany of cereal crops at the University of Groningen on the 17th and 18th of February 2022. The workshop was designed and organized by Prof. Rene Cappers, Dr. Sonja Filatova and Arnoud Mauerer. The workshop presented the modules on the morphology of different cereal crops and focused on identifying the primary differences in crop processing.
The workshop program included lectures on plant taxonomy, plant (grass) morphology, and crop processing along with illustrations of different crops, food processing tools and technologies from around the world. During the practical session of the workshop, the researchers studied the different crop samples and their morphological features through microscopes and later, walked the fields of the close-by village to learn plant sampling firsthand.
The program was an apposite study course to the researchers on the fundamentals of cereal morphology, plant sampling, and documentation of crop processing stages as they set forth to their anthropological research in Kazakhstan and India titled ‘Resource Cultures of Rice and Wheat in South and Central Asia: Religious and (agro-)economic dimensions of cereals’ funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Both photographs were shot by Togzhan Utetileuova.
