Abstract
The article deals with the issue little discussed in archaeology, namely with the use of wild plants in the Neolithic Age within the territory of the Czech Republic. The introduction outlines the importance of wild flora in the diet of the populations in the Near East region during the post-Paleolithic era.
One of the first attempts with domestication of wild ancestors of grasses, cereals, and leguminous plants are also situated into these parts of the world. Ethno-botanical research of the societies based on the agrarian way of life within the territory of the present-day Turkey documents the significance of the occurrence of edible parts of wild plants.
The existing knowledge about the use of wild plants within the territory of the Czech Republic are shortly summed up at the end of the article being stressed the uniquely preserved set of vegetal macroremains from Příšovice at Turnov (Liberec district). Also potential of biochemically oriented research of stone crushers from the territory of northwestern Bohemia, on which inorganic/organic residua after milling of various sorts of food could get stuck, is outlined there.