| Zusammenfassung: | Carbonized remains from archarological sites can provide clues that are crucial for understanding and characterizing subsistence strategies during Dark Ages. Analysis of floated samples collected from the archaeological site at Lahuradewa, in the Ganga Plain, has provided data which can be useful in understanding the exploitation of economically important plants by the ancient settlers as dietary preferences during ca. 2000–1500 BC. The crop remains encountered are represented by the grains and seeds of rice, barley, species of wheat, jowar-millet, kodon-millet, chickpea, lentil, fieldpea, grasspea, horsegram, green-gram, cowpea, fenugreek, linseed, sesame, Indian mustard and cotton. In addition, there is evidence for fruits of jujube, anwala and phalsa which may have been gathered by the ancient settlers for consumption. This communication also includes an account of some weeds and other wild taxa, which turned up as an admixture with the above economically important remains and are denotative of the surrounding ground vegetation.
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