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 …

Abstract The North-Western Himalayas are becoming the hotspots for hydro-meteorological
catastrophes due to climate change implications. Present study aims to analyse spatio …

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 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 …

We report the earliest and the most abundant archaeobotanical assemblage of southwest
Asian grain crops from Early Bronze Age Central Asia, recovered from the Chap II site in …

Exploring ancient socio-economic adaptation is a basic issue of human-environment
interaction. Xinjiang in northwest China is a region of high geographic diversity. Past human …

Throughout the human history, fire, climate, and human advancement had a very
complicated relationship. Scientists have explored this relationship using different proxies …

From the earliest archaeological investigations along Central Asia's Tien Shan range,
researchers have noted the diversity of highland communities and their participation in …

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