Archaeobotany in SE Europe

Since 2005 Kelly Reed has worked on archaeobotanical remains mainly from Croatia but also the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Below you will find publications related to this work by year.

Oštrić, K.H., McClure, S.B., Vidas, D., Triozzi, N. and Reed, K., 2025. Rezultati probnoga arheološkog istraživanja neolitičkog nalazišta Pod Jarugom. Archaeologia Adriatica, 18. https://doi.org/10.15291/archeo.4688

Reed, K. 2025. Archaeobotanical Report: Ancient Pistiros excavations 2015-2016.  https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/482RK

Reed, K. 2025. Archaeobotanical Report: Bona Mansio excavations 2017. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/F9EWC 

Reed, K. 2025. Archaeobotanical Report: Early Byzantine Monastery in Djanavara Varna, 2021 excavations. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WKT3F

Reed, K., & Wallace, M. 2024. To pretreat, or not to pretreat, that is the question. The value of pretreatment protocols in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of archaeobotanical cereal grains from Croatia and Serbia. STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2024.2410092  

Reed, K. 2024. Assessing carbon and nitrogen stable isotope variability within individual carbonised archaeological cereal grains. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G7DXM

Reed, K., 2024. Let me be fodder: Unravelling human and animal derived plant remains recovered from Roman Mursa, Croatia. Quaternary International 699: 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.02.008

Reed, K. 2023. Sample weight in ATR-FTIR analysis: examining carbonised archaeobotanical remains. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/D3VS5  

Reed, K. and Đukić, A. 2023. Exploring diet and agriculture at Lasinja culture sites. In: D. Tončinić and G. Jakovljević (eds). Archaeological Research of Bjelovar-Bilogorska County and Surrounding Areas. Croatian Archaeological Society Editions Volume 32. Tiskara Zelina d.d. Zagreb. pp. 169-180.

Reed, K., Hršak, T., Mihaljević, M. and Balen, J. 2022 Settlements and cemeteries in Bronze Age Croatia: The archaeobotanical evidence. Acta Palaeobotanica 62(2): 108–122. https://doi.org/10.35535/acpa-2022-0008

Reed, K. 2022. Archaeobotanical evidence of Triticum timopheevii from late Neolithic and Copper Age Croatia. osf.io/amryd

Reed, K., Smuk, A., Tkalčec, T. et al. 2022. Food and agriculture in Slavonia, Croatia, during the Late Middle Ages: the archaeobotanical evidence. Veget Hist Archaeobot 31: 347–361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00857-8   

Reed, K., Leleković, T., Lodwick, L. et al. 2022. Food, farming and trade on the Danube frontier: plant remains from Roman Aelia Mursa (Osijek, Croatia). Veget Hist Archaeobot 31: 363–376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00858-7

Reed, K., Ghica, V., Smuk, A., Dugonjić, A., Mihaljevic, M., Filipović, S. and Balen, J., 2022. Untangling the taphonomy of charred plant remains in ritual contexts: late antique and medieval churches and graves from Croatia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 47(3): 164-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.2022274

Reed, K., Balen, J., Drnić, I., Essert, S., et al. 2022. Unearthing millet in Bronze and Iron Age Croatia. In: W, Kirleis, M, Dal Corso, D, Filipović (eds.), Millet and What Else? The Wider Context of the Adoption of Millet Cultivation in Europe. pp. 95-106.

Reed, K. 2021. Food systems in archaeology. Examining production and consumption in the past. Archaeological Dialogues, 28(1): 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203821000088

Reed, K., Kudelić, A., Essert, S., Polonijo, L. and Vrdoljak, S., 2021. House of plenty: Reassessing food and farming in Late Bronze Age Croatia. Environmental Archaeology 2021: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1979385

Pope, H., De Frece, A., Wells, R., Borrelli, R., et al. 2021. Developing a Functional Food Systems Literacy for Interdisciplinary Dynamic Learning Networks. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2021): 747627. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.747627

Reed K. 2020. Diet and agriculture at Sisak - Pogorelac. In: Drnić. I (ed.), Iron Age Sisak – Pogorelac.  Archaeological Museum Zagreb: Zagreb

Reed K. 2020. Tomašanci-Palača: Archaeobotanical Results. In Balen, J (ed.), Tomašanci-Palača - settlements of the Late Stone, Copper and Bronze Age. Catalogues and Monographs of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, vol. XVII, 2020.

Reed, K. 2020. Farmers in transition: crop choice during the Bronze and early Iron Age in Croatia (2400-100 cal BC). In: G. Auxiette, C. Mougne, R. Peake, F. Toulemonde (dir.) 2020, Around the table: food in the Bronze Age and the First Iron Age (APRAB Bulletin; Supplement n ° 6), pp. 67-76

Reed K, Ožanić Roguljić, I., 2020. The Roman food system in southern Pannonia (Croatia) from 1st – 4th century A.D. Open Archaeology 6:38-62 https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0105

Ingram J., Ajates R., Arnall A. et al. 2020. A future workforce of food-system analysts. Nature Food 1:9-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-019-0003-3

Filipović, D., Meadows, J., Corso, M.D. et al. 2020. New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe. Sci Rep 10, 13698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z

Reed K. 2019. Ritual household deposits and the religious imaginaries of early medieval Dalmatia (Croatia). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101084

Reed, K., Ožanić Roguljić, I., Roguljić, O., Radović, S., Kolak, T. 2019. Daily consumption in a rural Roman villa: excavations at Lički Ribnik, Croatia. IANSA Volume 10(1): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2019.1.4

Reed K and Ryan P., 2019. Lessons from the past and the future of food. World Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1610492

Reed, K., Sabljić, S., Šoštarić, R., Essert, S. 2019. Grains from ear to ear: the morphology of spelt and free-threshing wheat from Roman Mursa (Osijek), Croatia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 28: 623-634. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00719-4

Reed, K., Lodwick, L., Leleković, T., Vulić, H., 2019. Exploring Roman ritual behaviours through plant remains from Pannonia Inferior. Environmental Archaeology 24(1): pp.28-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2018.1443601

Reed K, Leleković T, 2019. First evidence of rice (Oryza cf. sativa L.) and black pepper (Piper nigrum) in Roman Mursa, Croatia. Archaeological and Anthropological Science 11:271-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0545-y

Moore, A. et al. 2019. Early Farming in Dalmatia Pokrovnik and Danilo Bitinj: two Neolithic villages in southeast Europe. Archaeopress: Oxford.

Reed, K. 2019. The development of farming in the Eneolithic: the archaeobotanical remains. In: J. Balen, I. Miloglav, D. Rajković (eds.), Back to the Past: Copper Age in Northern Croatia. Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu, Zagreb. pp. 239-256.

Podrug, E., B Mcclure, S., Perhoč, Z., Kačar, S., Reed, K. and Zavodny, E., 2018. Rašinovac near Ždrapanj (northern Dalmatia)–An early neolithic site. Archaeologia Adriatica, 12(1), pp.47-97. https://doi.org/10.15291/archeo.3023

Drnić, I., Trimmis, K.P., Hale, A., Madgwick, R., Reed, K., Barbir, A., Mađerić, M. 2018. Assemblages from Marginal Spaces: The results of the excavations in Mala (Nova)Pećina near Muć and the Neolithic of Dalmatinska Zagora. Prilozi 35:29-70. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.35.2

Reed, K., Škrivanko, M.K., Mihaljević, M. 2017. Diet and subsistence at the late Neolithic tell sites of Sopot, Slavca and Ravnjas, eastern Croatia. Documenta Praehistorica 44:326-337. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.19  

Reed, K., Collier, R., White, R., Wells, R., Ingram, J., Haesler, B., Caraher, M., Lang, T., Arnall, A., Gonzalez, R.A., Pope, H. 2017. Training Future Actors in the Food System: A new collaborative cross-institutional, interdisciplinary training programme for students. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 4(2): pp.201-218. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v4i2.161

Reed, K. 2017. Agricultural change in Copper Age Croatia (ca. 4500–2500 cal B.C)? Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9(8):1745-1765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0330-3

Reed, K. 2016. Archaeobotany in Croatia: An overview. Journal of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb 49(1): 7-28. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/267982

Reed, K., Podrug E, 2016. Reconstructing late Neolithic plant economies at the Eastern Adriatic site of Veliśtak (5th millennium cal BC). Documenta Praehistorica, 43: 399-412. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.43.19

Reed, K., Colledge S, 2016. Plant economies in the Neolithic Eastern Adriatic: archaeobotanical results from Danilo and Pokrovnik. Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest Dalmatinsku; Journal of Dalmatian Archaeology and History, 109 (1): 9-23. https://hrcak.srce.hr/172973

Reed, K., Drnić I, 2016. Iron age diet at Sisak, Croatia: Archaeobotanical evidence of Foxtail Millet (Setaria Italica [L.] P. Beauv.). Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 35 (4): 359-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12101

Reed K. 2016. Archaeobotanical analysis of Bronze Age Feudvar. In: Kroll H, Reed K (ed.), Die Archäobotanik Feudvar III, Würzburger University Press, pp. 197-297

Kroll H, Reed K (ed.). 2016. Die Archäobotanik Feudvar III, Würzburger University Press

Sharples N, Ingrem C, Marshall P, Mulville J, Powell A, Reed K, 2016. The Viking Occupation of the Hebrides: Evidence from the excavations at Bornais, South Uist. In Barrett JH, Gibbon SJ (eds.) Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World. Maney Publishing, Leeds

Reed K, 2015. From the field to the hearth: plant remains from Neolithic Croatia (ca. 6000–4000 cal BC). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24(5):601-619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-015-0513-3  

Reed K, 2015. Agriculture in Prehistoric Croatia and Serbia: Continuity and Change. In Jervis B, Howard W, Bedigan K (eds.) Food and drink in archaeology 4. Prospect Books, pp. 139-142

Reed K, de Vareilles A, 2014. Plant macro-remains from Kočićevo. In I. Pandžić., M. Van der Linden (eds.) The Neolithic site of Kočićevo in the lower Vrbas valley (Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina): Report of the 2009-2014 field seasons. Banja Luka: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, pp. 84-96

Reed K., 2014. Food and Farming in Neolithic Croatia: The archaeobotanical remains. In J. Balen., T. Hršak., R. Šošić-Klindžić (eds.) Gifts of the soil – Neolithic between the Sava, Drava and Danube. Archaeological Museum Zagreb: Zagreb pp. 156 – 165

Reed K., Rottoli, M., 2014. Neolithic Agriculture in Friuli and Dalmatia. P. Visentini (ed.). Adriatico senza confini. Civici Musei di Undine, Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale: Udine, Italy

Reed K., 2011. The Plant Remains. J. Balen (ed.). Ðakovo-Franjevac – Late Neolithic Settlement. Archaeological Museum Zagreb: Zagreb pp. 126-127