Reloading DNA history in rice domestication

T Izawa - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Although crop domestication is a prehistoric event, DNA (or genome) sequences of modern
cultivars and the accession lines of wild relatives contain information regarding the history of …

Early Austronesians cultivated rice and millet together: tracing Taiwan's first Neolithic crops

Z Deng, S Kuo, MT Carson, H Hung - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study presents the first directly dated physical evidence of crop remains from the Early
Neolithic archaeological layers in Taiwan. Systematic sampling and analysis of macro-plant …

Episodes of diversification and isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian male lineages

M Karmin, R Flores, L Saag… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and Oceania host one of the world's richest
assemblages of human phenotypic, linguistic, and cultural diversity. Despite this, the …

Global patterns in island colonization during the Holocene

TP Leppard, EE Cochrane, D Gaffney… - Journal of World …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …

Adaptation and the Geographic Spread of Crop Species

RM Gutaker, MD Purugganan - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Crops are plant species that were domesticated starting about 11,000 years ago from
several centers of origin, most prominently the Fertile Crescent, East Asia, and …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the chronology and dynamics of the spread of Asian rice from ca. 8000 BCE to 1000 CE

T Long, H Chen, C Leipe, M Wagner… - Quaternary International, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a quantitative chronology for the spread of rice, based on the global
Rice Chronology Database that builds upon direct datings of archaeological rice remains …

Population dynamics in Taiwan from the Neolithic to early historic periods (5000–100 cal BP): linking cultural developments and environmental change

C Leipe, J Lu, K Chi - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2023 - Elsevier
To reconstruct population dynamics in Taiwan between 5000 and 100 cal BP, we analysed
spatial-temporal changes in archaeological site abundance and size (area). The results …

Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages

B King, SJ Greenhill, LA Reid, M Ross, M Walworth… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The Philippines are central to understanding the expansion of the Austronesian language
family from its homeland in Taiwan. It remains unknown to what extent the distribution of …

Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age

C Leipe, J Lu, K Chi, S Lee, H Yang… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite decades of lively debate about Taiwan's role in the spread of early agriculture, crops
and cultivation practices to the Indo-Pacific region, there is little archaeobotanical data from …

The genomic diversity of Taiwanese Austronesian groups: Implications for the “Into-and Out-of-Taiwan” models

D Liu, AMS Ko, M Stoneking - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The origin and dispersal of the Austronesian language family, one of the largest and most
widespread in the world, have long attracted the attention of linguists, archaeologists, and …