Pulses are a significant component of traditional subsistence in South Asia. Reliable
identification criteria for identifying these from archaeological seed remains are reviewed …

Recent research indicates that cultivation may have begun in as many as five regions of
India before the introduction of exogenous crops and cultivation systems: South India …

The origin of millet from Neolithic China has generally been accepted, but it remains
unknown whether common millet (Panicum miliaceum) or foxtail millet (Setaria italica) was …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

郑州地区地处中原腹地, 是我国旱作农业起源和稻作农业早期传播的重要区域之一,
在华夏文明形成与发展过程中具有非常重要的地位. 然而, 由于区域性系统植物考古研究较少 …

The accumulation of recent data from archaeobotany, archaeozoology and Neolithic
excavations from across South Asia warrants a new overview of early agriculture in the …

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and Common millet (Panicum miliaceum) are the oldest
domesticated dry farming crops in Eurasia. Identifying these two millets in the …

The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours
and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Opaline phytoliths are important microfossils used for paleoecological and archaeological
reconstructions that are primarily based on relative ratios of specific morphotypes. Recent …