From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory

X Liu, PJ Jones, GM Matuzeviciute, HV Hunt… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia

TR Hermes, MD Frachetti… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mobile pastoralists are thought to have facilitated the first trans-Eurasian dispersals of
domesticated plants during the Early Bronze Age (ca 2500–2300 BC). Problematically, the …

[HTML][HTML] Intensification in pastoralist cereal use coincides with the expansion of trans-regional networks in the Eurasian Steppe

AR Ventresca Miller, CA Makarewicz - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The pace of transmission of domesticated cereals, including millet from China as well as
wheat and barley from southwest Asia, throughout the vast pastoralist landscapes of the …

Economic Change in the Prehistoric Hexi Corridor (4800–2200 bp), North‐West China

Y Yang, L Ren, G Dong, Y Cui, R Liu, G Chen… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely known that the Hexi Corridor in North‐West China lies at a hub of trans‐Eurasian
cultural exchange. Its role became increasingly important during the late prehistoric period …

[HTML][HTML] Stable isotope and dental caries data reveal abrupt changes in subsistence economy in ancient China in response to global climate change

C Cheung, H Zhang, JC Hepburn, DY Yang… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Prior to the introduction of wheat and barley from Central Asia during the Neolithic period,
northern Chinese agricultural groups subsisted heavily on millet. Despite being the focus of …

[PDF][PDF] Bioarchaeology of Bronze and Iron Age skeletal finds from a microregion in Central Mongolia

G Grupe, M Marx, PM Schellerer… - Anthropologischer …, 2019 - academia.edu
This paper gives a state of the art report of an ongoing interdisciplinary project on
bioarchaeological research on cemeteries in the Upper Orkhon valley, Central Mongolia, in …

Exploring the Lower Xiajiadian in Northeast China (ca. 2000-1300 BC)

X Tang - 2019 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This thesis investigates the Lower Xiajiadian culture (ca. 2000-1300 BC) in northeast China,
with a focus on two major questions: first, what were the principal cultural features of the …