eprintid: 10171177 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/11/77 datestamp: 2023-06-05 13:15:06 lastmod: 2023-06-05 13:15:06 status_changed: 2023-06-05 13:15:06 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Huang, Yunshi creators_name: Deng, Zhenhua creators_name: Nashli, Hassan Fazeli creators_name: Fuller, Dorian Q creators_name: Wu, Xiaohong creators_name: Safari, Mojtaba title: The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia: rice and broomcorn millet in northern Iran ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F31 divisions: K74 keywords: Agriculture, AGRICULTURE, Anthropology, Archaeology, CHINA, CORRIDOR, crop dispersal, CULTIVATION, DISPERSAL, Eurasia, FOOD GLOBALIZATION, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, ORIGINS, Oryza sativa, Panicum miliaceum, PANICUM-MILIACEUM, Science & Technology, Silk Route, Social Sciences, SPREAD, Triticum timopheevii note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: 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. date: 2023-04-11 date_type: published publisher: Antiquity Publications official_url: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.42 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2023451 doi: 10.15184/aqy.2023.42 lyricists_name: Fuller, Dorian lyricists_id: DFULL78 actors_name: Fuller, Dorian actors_id: DFULL78 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: 41872027 [National Natural Science Foundation of China]; T2192953 [National Natural Science Foundation of China]; XDB26000000 [Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences]; 2020YFC1521603 [National Key Research and Development Program of China]; 2020YFC1521606 [National Key Research and Development Program of China] full_text_status: public publication: Antiquity pages: 16 citation: Huang, Yunshi; Deng, Zhenhua; Nashli, Hassan Fazeli; Fuller, Dorian Q; Wu, Xiaohong; Safari, Mojtaba; (2023) The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia: rice and broomcorn millet in northern Iran. Antiquity 10.15184/aqy.2023.42 <https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.42>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171177/1/FInal%20for%20RPS%20w%20supplement.pdf