The PALAP project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant on 'Urbanization in Bronze Age Crete: between palace and landscape at Palaikastro' (2014-16), The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), the Hal Jackman Foundation and the British School at Athens, while the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Bristol and Nottingham (UK) also fully supported and financed parts of the project. Dr Livarda is a Ramón y Cajal researcher funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RyC-2017-22105) and was further supported by an I+D+i grant (PID2019-107605GB-100).

The archaeobotanical dataset (reporting each sample separately) was produced using primary archaeobotanical material recovered during the ‘Palaikastro Phase 4. Urbanization in Bronze Age Crete: Between Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro’ (PALAP) project (2012-2016), which focused on excavations of part of the Bronze Age town at Roussolakkos, Palaikastro, Greece, as well as landscape research in its surrounding territory.