“…The role of wild and non-food plants in human history is a growing field in archaeological research (e.g. Antolín, Berihuete, and López 2016;Hardy and Martens 2016;Timpany, O'Donnell, and Deforce 2018), but still somewhat marginal. Archaeologists are used to categorising the past achievements of humankind in terms of our mastery of inorganic materials.…”