@inbook{336cb68e4aea402a913a0237c347ad8f,
title = "Nigella in the Mirror of Time: A Brief Attempt to Draw a Genus{\textquoteright} Ethnohistorical Portrait",
abstract = "Nigella (Ranunculaceae) is a small genus of annuals mainly of Irano-Turanian distribution, but some species also extending across most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. The genus comprises several taxa of ethnopharmacological interest, as their seeds are used in a wide range of medicinal contexts – those of N. sativa have even developed into a plant drug of prime commercial interest. However, the historical dimension (the “traditional uses”) of Nigella species, nowadays used as a marketing tool and often a justification of modern use, has hardly ever been documented basing on the critical use of sources, and employing a multidisciplinary approach. The current paper now attempts to combine a wide range of written sources and the full archaeological record in order to find evidence of this genus{\textquoteright} possible use in history and prehistory, and to serve as an example of the combination and interlinking of research tools from historical botany and archaeobotany.",
author = "Heiss, {Andreas G.} and Hans-Peter Stika and {De Zorzi}, Nicla and Michael Jursa",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-529-01-264-8",
series = "Offa. Berichte und Mitteilungen zur Urgeschichte, Fr{\"u}hgeschichte und Mittelalterarch{\"a}ologie",
publisher = "Wachholtz Verlag",
pages = "147--169",
editor = "{von Carnap-Bornheim}, Claus and Walter D{\"o}rfler and Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes M{\"u}ller and Ulrich M{\"u}ller",
booktitle = "Von Sylt bis Kastanas",
}