Archaeological research in Central Eurasia is exposing unprecedented scales of trans- regional interaction and technology transfer between East Asia and southwest Asia deep …
The two East Asian millets, broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica), spread across Eurasia and became important crops by the second millennium BC …
D Filipović, J Meadows, MD Corso, W Kirleis… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 bc …
RN Spengler - Journal of World Prehistory, 2015 - Springer
By the late third/early second millennium BC, increased interconnectivity in the mountains of Central Asia linked populations across Eurasia. This increasing interaction would later …
" A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From …
T Wang, D Wei, X Chang, Z Yu, X Zhang… - National Science …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The westward expansion of human millet consumption from north China has important implications for understanding early interactions between the East and West. However, few …
Nomads, or highly specialized mobile pastoralists, are prominent features in Central Asian archaeology, and they are often depicted in direct conflict with neighboring sedentary …
This article presents new archaeological research on the ritual and domestic life of pastoralists at the Bronze Age campsite Tasbas, Kazakhstan. We reconstruct the hitherto …