For type 1 consider Chrozophora  as candidate 

Yoel Melamed
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Phone: 03-5318245

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:15 PM Rhona Fenwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I'm working on site in central Turkey at the moment on some Early Bronze Age material, and have a couple of seed types that are really stumping me. Each type appears to be found in only a single context (out of 35-odd contexts analysed so far), and yet multiple specimens of each appear in their respective contexts, which makes me wonder if they may be rare economic species each preserved only in a single context. If anyone could offer suggestions or identifications, I'd be very grateful.

Type 1 (apologies for the photo quality, but the Dinolite didn't show the anatomical features as well as the plain low-mag) is from a pit fill containing also cereals and legumes. I had pondered Boraginaceae at first, but the morphology really isn't right, and there doesn't appear to be a clear detachment scar as one might expect for the usual suspects in this area. The pinched appearance of the basal end seems very distinctive, but I haven't been able to turn anything up in the standard references. The closest match at the moment seems to be something in Euphorbia, though naturally that's a huge family and even there it doesn't quite seem to fit (and while on site my access to reference collections is very limited).

For type 2 (from a general room fill), frankly, I'm beat. In lateral view my first thought was Anethum, but it definitely isn't Apiaceae, as despite the bilateral compression this element is clearly unitary, not an undehisced schizocarp. Nonetheless, the ridges and the hole at the hilum are clearly anatomical. I suspect this may be the endocarp of some fruit or other, but if it is it's one I'm utterly unfamiliar with from this area.

Are any of you familiar with either of these types? Do you know what they are?

Many thanks in advance,
Rhona Fenwick

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Rhona S. H. Fenwick
PhD (Social Science) Qld
BSc (Biomed), BA (Hons 1st Class) (Archæology) Qld

Honorary Research Fellow
School of Social Science
The University of Queensland

St Lucia, Q. 4072

AUSTRALIA

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