Though chickens are the most numerous and ubiquitous domestic bird, their origins, the
circumstances of their initial association with people, and the routes along which they …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important food crops, and is comprised largely
of japonica and indica subspecies. Here, we reconstruct the history of rice dispersal in Asia …

The shift from foraging to agriculture as an economic way of life can be influenced by
multiple ecological and cultural factors. The introduction of rice cultivation in Japan appears …

The potential applications of microCT scanning in the field of archaeobotany are only just
beginning to be explored. The imaging technique can extract new archaeobotanical …

Millets and rice were important for the demographic history of China. This review draws on
current archaeobotanical evidence for rice and millets across China, Korea, eastern Russia …

We report archaeobotanical results from systematic flotation at what is presently the earliest
Neolithic site with hard evidence for crop cultivation in the Southwestern Chinese province …

We report archaeobotanical results from systematic flotation obtained during the 2008
excavation of the site of Haimenkou, in Northwest Yunnan, dated to c. 1600–300 BCE …

The aromatic group of Asian cultivated rice is a distinct population with considerable genetic
diversity on the Indian subcontinent and includes the popular Basmati types characterized …

Abstract The Lower Yangtze River Valley is a key region for the early development of rice
farming and the emergence of wet rice paddy field systems. Subsistence evidence from …

MicroCT visualisations of organic inclusions within pottery sherds from Khashm el Girba 23
(KG23), Sudan, reveal domesticated sorghum (Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor) at c. 3700 …