Tripoli – More than 10,000 years ago the prehistoric populations of the Sahara, studied by an international and interdisciplinary mission of archaeologists and botanists who for years has beaten a wide archaeological area of the Libyan desert. In the team of archaeologists and botanists there’s also Professor Anna Maria Mercuri from Life Science Department of Unimore – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia that in Modena at the Laboratory of Palynology and Palaeobotany sampled, analyzed and stored all the botanic material of over twenty years of excavations. The results of their research, published these days in the Nature Plants journal in the article “Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery.” (9Colonne)
