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 …

Abstract High-elevation (> 2500 m asl) environments pose severe challenges for human
adaptation, and the timing and catalysts of their sustained year-round occupation remain a …

Abstract Background Persian walnut, Juglans regia, occurs naturally from Greece to western
China, while its closest relative, the iron walnut, Juglans sigillata, is endemic in southwest …

Aims A comprehensive understanding of the genetic variation of walnuts (Juglans regia and
J. sigillata) in the Himalaya and its potential drivers are essential for the conservation and …

Historically, agricultural and culinary traditions on the Tibetan Plateau have centered on a
specific variety of naked frost-tolerant barley. Single-crop-dominant cultivation systems were …

We present here the first comprehensive archaeobotanical investigation from the prehistoric
farming settlement of Chap I (1065–825 cal bce), located in a high altitude valley in the …

The mountain foothills of inner Asia have served as a corridor of communication and
exchange for at least five millennia, using historically documented trade routes such as the …

The mountainous areas of Inner Asia are now well established as a vector for the
transmission of a number of crop plants between their centres of domestication in West and …

Freshwater aquatic systems are subjected to rapid deterioration driven by multiple stressors
such as climate change and human activity. The understanding of the long-term history of …

The spread of language families is hypothesized to have occurred via agricultural and
demographic transitions that drove populations outwards from agricultural centres of …