Rice is one of the most culturally valued and widely grown crops in the world today, and
extensive research over the past decade has clarified much of the narrative of its …

The Middle to Late Holocene spread of agropastoralism throughout Eurasia not only
subjected domesticated taxa to stressors associated with novel environments but also …

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …

We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan,
found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775 …

Invented in the 19th century as an allegory for large-scale human interaction across Eurasia,
the idea of “the Silk Road” continues to shape archaeological investigations of trade, travel …

The urban center of Paykend was an exchange node just off the main corridor of the Silk
Road in the Bukhara Oasis on the edge of the hyperarid Kyzyl–Kum Desert. The city was …

The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops,
cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species …

Drawing on archaeobotanical evidence from the central regions of Central Asia, we explore
crop diffusion during the first millennium ce. We present a comprehensive summary of …

The origins and prehistoric spread of rice agriculture between East and West Asia are hot
topics in the current archaeological community. In this study, we present the results from a …

The interaction between people from the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC)
and mobile pastoralists during the Bronze Age in the alluvial fan of the Murghab River in …