TY - INPR UR - http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.42 TI - The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia: rice and broomcorn millet in northern Iran KW - Agriculture KW - AGRICULTURE KW - Anthropology KW - Archaeology KW - CHINA KW - CORRIDOR KW - crop dispersal KW - CULTIVATION KW - DISPERSAL KW - Eurasia KW - FOOD GLOBALIZATION KW - Life Sciences & Biomedicine KW - ORIGINS KW - Oryza sativa KW - Panicum miliaceum KW - PANICUM-MILIACEUM KW - Science & Technology KW - Silk Route KW - Social Sciences KW - SPREAD KW - Triticum timopheevii ID - discovery10171177 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. EP - 16 JF - Antiquity AV - public N2 - Following their early domestication, broomcorn millet and rice (in East Asia) and wheat and barley (in South-west Asia) were subsequently adopted across Eurasia during the Bronze Age/early historic period. The precise timing and dispersal routes for this trans-Eurasian exchange, however, remain unclear. Here, the authors present archaeobotanical evidence from sites on the Caspian Sea's southern coast, demonstrating that broomcorn millet reached West Asia by c. 2050 BC and rice by c. 120 BC. These dispersals relate to two waves of globalisation and were based on two different mechanisms: an ?infiltration? model (broomcorn millet) and a ?leapfrog? model (rice). The results contribute to our understanding of the continental-scale connectivity of the late prehistoric/early historic periods. PB - Antiquity Publications Y1 - 2023/04/11/ A1 - Huang, Yunshi A1 - Deng, Zhenhua A1 - Nashli, Hassan Fazeli A1 - Fuller, Dorian Q A1 - Wu, Xiaohong A1 - Safari, Mojtaba ER -