Dispersal of crop-livestock and geographical-temporal variation of subsistence along the Steppe and Silk Roads across Eurasia in prehistory

G Dong, L Du, L Yang, M Lu, M Qiu, H Li, M Ma… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

Asynchronous transformation of human livelihoods in key regions of the trans-Eurasia exchange in China during 4000-2200 BP

M Ma, M Lu, S Zhang, R Min, G Dong - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence and intensification of the trans-Eurasian exchange during the Late Neolithic
and Bronze Ages profoundly influenced human lifestyles, notably in the arc and the Central …

New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

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 …

The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction

M Frachetti, N Di Cosmo, J Esper, L Khalidi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …

Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP

X Chen, H Lü, X Liu, MD Frachetti - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tibetan cultures reflect deeply rooted, regional interactions and diverse subsistence
practices across varied high-altitude environments of the Tibetan Plateau. Yet, it remains …

The integration of millet into the diet of Central Asian populations in the third millennium BC

GM Matuzeviciute, E Ananyevskaya, J Sakalauskaite… - Antiquity, 2022 - cambridge.org
Stable isotope analyses demonstrate that C4 plants played an important dietary role in
Eurasian prehistory. Uncertainty remains, however, about when and how crops were …

New evidence for supplementary crop production, foddering and fuel use by Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in the Tianshan Mountains

D Tian, M Festa, D Cong, Z Zhao, PW Jia, A Betts - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The nature of economies and the movement of agricultural crops across Eurasia in the
Bronze Age have been the subject of significant research interest in recent years. This study …

Mid–late holocene palaeoclimate and biogeochemical evolution of Wular Lake, Kashmir Valley, India

RA Shah, A Rahman, MG Yadava… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous multiproxy data were generated to understand the mid–late Holocene
palaeoenvironmental history of the Kashmir Valley and the biogeochemistry of Wular Lake …

The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan

G Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, B Mir-Makhamad… - Vegetation History and …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Between cereal agriculture and animal husbandry: millet in the early economy of the North Pontic region

M Dal Corso, G Pashkevych, D Filipović, X Liu… - Journal of World …, 2022 - Springer
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed
westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching Europe in the 2nd millennium …