Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world.
Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned …

Recent excavations at the site of Kara-tepe in northwestern Uzbekistan revealed evidence
for the production of cotton (Gossypium sp.) in domestic contexts dated to ca. 300–500 AD …

The Khorezm oasis sits at the epicenter of an environmental disaster. Since the late 19th
century, the continual expansion of irrigation in this region has altered the natural hydrology …

This paper reports on the results of archaeological field excavations at the site of Kara-tepe,
in the semi-autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in northwestern Uzbekistan …

In a recent special issue of The Holocene, Miller et al. review the evidence for the spread of
millet (Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica) across Eurasia. Among their arguments, they …

Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree
Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and …

Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges
taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during …

Despite its apparent size and length of its existence, the Dzhety-asar culture of Kazakhstan
remains one of the great unknowns of Central Asian archaeology, comprising, as it did …

Cotton is a valuable fiber crop for different industries especially the textile, food and oil
industries. Drought causes serious yield losses in cotton throughout the world. Association …

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Crossroads of Cuisine Paul David Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, Montserrat de Pablo Moya …