Mobility and diet: knowing early medieval populations in the Northeast of Portugal through bioanthropology
It is only through a multidisciplinary approach that we can understand past communities. In the case of the Early Medieval period, documental sources in the Iberian Peninsula are scarce and insufficient to understand the everyday life of the communities. Therefore,...
The Double Hybrid Corn: a historical perspective of the Galicia’s gateway to Europe 1920s
Only recently biological innovations have received the historiographic attention they deserve. In the last half-century, historians of technological change have been more focused on projecting the mechanization and fertilization of the green revolution into the past....
Montado de Sobro, an extraordinary cultural landscape and ecosystem
Growing exclusively in the western Mediterranean basin, especially in Portugal, Spain, Morroco and Algeria, the vast majority of the cork oak trees forms a unique ecosystem and cultural landscape (i.e., human-made) called the Montado de Sobro. Characterized by a...
About the usefulness of birds
Birds have mattered to humans as much in the past as they do in the present. They draw attention and they are present in culture as symbols of wilderness, beautifulness and joy. The plumage, the flight and the song are just a few of their attractive features....
Natural history collections: a meeting place between biologists and historians
Natural history collections and herbaria are meeting places between biologists and historians, between the past and the present. They contain selected zoological or botanical specimens. Moreover, collections have associated documents that include data on the month,...
2020 The International Year of Plant Health
Many people celebrated the new year of 2020 with wine. In everyday life or just at festive times, wine consumption has become essential for millions around the world. Given the current success, it is hard to imagine that 150 years ago wine was threatened with...
Public granaries: seeds banks before the concept even existed
Since the end of the 19th century, botanists and state agronomists began to store seeds in order to improve agriculture production. In the first half of the 20th century, the first important national seed banks were created in USSR and the USA. However, only since the...
What we learnt in our first year “ReSEEDing”
One year of ReSEED Project! One year of a research journey in which the learnings and findings have strengthened the dimension of the challenge we have for the next four years. This project aims to examine the historical changes in agriculture related to cultivated...
The Seeding Ideas blog was published monthly from November 2019 to October 2023. The Editorial Board was composed of ReSEED team members. Publication and editing were coordinated by Caroline Delmazo. We aimed to share ideas, discussions, and findings from our research. Besides the team members and collaborators, we invited researchers from diverse scientific fields to contribute to this amazing interdisciplinary journey. We thank all authors and readers!