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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The early adoption of East Asian crops in West Asia: rice and broomcorn millet in northern Iran |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2023.42 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.42 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| 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 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171177 |
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