This paper explores the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a
diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South …

The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

Past human populations are known to have managed crops in a range of ways. Various
methods can be used, singly or in conjunction, to reconstruct these strategies, a process …

The exploitation of plant resources was an important part of the economic and social
strategies of the people of the Indus Civilisation (c. 3200–1500 BCE). Research has focused …

This paper presents novel insights into the archaeology of food in ancient South Asia by
using lipid residue analysis to investigate what kinds of foodstuffs were used in ceramic …

Ancient starch research illuminates aspects of human ecology and economic botany that
drove human evolution and cultural complexity over time, with a special emphasis on past …

Horsegram has been an important crop since the beginning of agriculture in many parts of
South Asia. Despite horsegram's beneficial properties as a hardy, multi-functional crop, it is …

Rice is currently the staple food for over 3.5 billion people and is arguably the most
important crop exploited by humans. Understanding how we came to the point where a …

Multi-cropping was vital for provisioning large population centers across ancient Eurasia. In
Southwest Asia, multi-cropping, in which grain, fodder, or forage could be reliably cultivated …

All tropically adapted humped cattle (Bos indicus or “zebu”), descend from a domestication
process that took place> 8,000 years ago in South Asia. Here we present an intercontinental …