Many of today's major food crops are distributed worldwide. While much of this 'food
globalisation'has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in prehistory. In this …

A systematic review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records of cannabis (fibres,
pollen, achenes and imprints of achenes) reveals its complex history in Eurasia. A …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

Tibetan wheat is grown under environmental constraints at high-altitude conditions, but its
underlying adaptation mechanism remains unknown. Here, we present a draft genome …

Wheat and barley evolved from large-seeded annual grasses in the arid, low latitudes of
Asia; their spread into higher elevations and northern latitudes involved corresponding …

The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses
the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops …

Archaeological research in Central Eurasia is exposing unprecedented scales of trans-
regional interaction and technology transfer between East Asia and southwest Asia deep …

Since its domestication in the Fertile Crescent~ 8000 to 10,000 years ago, wheat has
undergone a complex history of spread, adaptation, and selection. To get better insights into …

A total of 51,074 archaeological sites from the early Neolithic to the early Iron Age (c. 8000–
500 BC), with a spatial extent covering most regions of China (c. 73–131° E and c. 20–53° …

史前时代东西方交流及其对人类生产方式变化的影响是备受关注的前沿科学问题.
甘青地区是东西方文化交流的关键区域, 考古研究显示该地区的跨大陆文化互动始于齐家文化 …